Regionalization is a basic characteristic of post-Communist Russia–a contradictory process that both poses challenges to and provides for a federative state. Russia's regionalization does have negative consequences: further disintegration of the single economic, financial and cultural space; degradation of the party system and the rise of interest group politics answering to parochial interests; regionalization and privatization of security services and armed forces; and the rise of separatism and secessionism, which could result in disintegration of the country. Many analysts focus primarily on this "dark side" of Russia's regionalization. However, the process of regionalization also brings a number of positive changes, on which I would like to focus here. […]
Memo #:
59
Series:
1
PDF:
PDF URL:
http://www.gwu.edu/~ieresgwu/assets/docs/ponars/pm_0059.pdf
Author [Non-member]:
Alexander Sergounin
