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Presentation Of Jeffrey Kahn, Jeffrey D. Kahn
Presentation Of Jeffrey Kahn, Jeffrey D. Kahn
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This short essay is based on remarks given at the Kennan Institute at the conference ‘The Russian Constitution at Fifteen: Assessments and Current Challenges to Russia’s Legal Development’. A central focus of these remarks is the undoing of the federal system described in the 1993 Constitution.
Federalism, Democratization, And The Rule Of Law In Russia, Jeffrey D. Kahn
Federalism, Democratization, And The Rule Of Law In Russia, Jeffrey D. Kahn
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Combining the approaches of three fields of scholarship - political science, law and Russian area studies - the author of this 2002 Oxford University Press book explores the foundations and future of the Russian Federation. Russia's political elite have struggled to build an extraordinarily complex federal system, one that incorporates eighty-nine different units and scores of different ethnic groups, which sometimes harbor long histories of resentment against Russian imperial and Soviet legacies. This book examines the public debates, official documents and political deals that built Russia's federal house on very unsteady foundations, often out of the ideological, conceptual and physical …