Russian state-building and the problems of geopolitics

A basic task of the state is to ensure the continuation and security of the community within which it is found. In an attempt to achieve this, state elites pursue long-term strategies. Such strategies involve not just questions of external security, but also the structuring of domestic society with an eye to faciliting the extraction and mobilisation of resources. The tsarist state sought to achieve this through a cooptive strategy which left some room for independent economic initiative. The soviet elite sought to encapsulate all actors into a single command stucture, thereby removing all scope for independent activity. Ultimately both strategies failed, and the post-Soviet leaders are faced with the problem of devising a more successful alternative

Economic system · Economics · Elite · Geopolitics · Management · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Scope (computer science) · Sociology · State (computer science) · State security · State-building · Structuring · Task (project management) · Computer Science · International Relations and Foreign Policy · Law · Political Conflict and Governance · Russia and Soviet political economy

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