Introduction: authoritarian persistence in history's aftermath / Michael E. Aleprete -- International relations and political centralization during Putin's first term / Michael E. Aleprete -- Petroleum vs. Western aid: external influences and authoritarian tendencies in Russia / Olga Beznosova -- Rent seeking and authoritarian consolidation in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan / Assel Rustemova -- Central Asian conceptions of democracy: ideological resistance to democratization / Mariya Omelicheva -- The promulgation of anti-democratic norms in South Ossetia / Carmen Gayoso -- Azerbaijan: the state as a crossroads of internal policy and external interests / Rovshan Ibrahimov -- Ukraine: a democratic post-Soviet state? / Rachel Vanderhill -- Out of the authoritarian labyrinth: post-2009 Moldova / Theodor Tudoroiu -- Authoritarian Belarus between Europe and Russia: four scenarios / Thomas Ambrosio -- Conclusions: the international dimension of authoritarian persistence / Rachel Vanderhill
Summary
How international factors interact with domestic conditions in ways that enable the persistence of authoritarianism in post-Soviet states. Several of these states are generally understudied in political science and their inclusion in this volume helps us develop a better understanding of the experiences, issues, and problems of post-communism
