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The current volume examines the renewed global dynamic, and how it is changing the relationships between the interdependent global communities across Asia and the Middle East. Focussing on the broader aspects of finance and trade between the Middle East and Asia, as well as growing security issues over natural resources and questions of sovereignty, this volume concludes with speculations on the growing importance of Asia and the Middle East in the global setting.

By using the case of public diplomacy in East Asia, this book provides a richer understanding of the forces at work in the relationships between states in the troubled region. The prism of public diplomacy helps us to see a more varied picture of East Asian state-to-state relations.

Clifford Gaddy's and Barry Ickes' paradigm of the "virtual economy" has fundamentally changed the way people think about Russia's economy. Circulated at the highest levels of the Russian and U.S. governments and reported in leading publications worldwide, their thesis--that Russia's economy is based on illusion or pretense about nearly every important economic yardstick, including prices, sales, wages and budgets--has forced broad recognition of the inadequacies of the intended market reform policies in Russia. More important, their work has provided a coherent framework for understanding how and why so much of Russia's economy has resisted reform. Gaddy and Ickes now use the virtual economy concept to project the near- and middle-term future of the Russian economy and suggest possible policy responses. Drawing on new empirical material from published and unpublished sources and from their own extensive field work in Russia, the authors examine critical aspects of the virtual economy: manufacturing enterprises, households and the public sectors, both local and federal. For the first time, they will also integrate the financial and agricultural sectors into their model. Gaddy's and Ickes' book can be expected to be a seminal work for understanding the inner workings of the Russian economy. Clifford G. Gaddy is a fellow in Foreign Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution and a member of Brookings' Center on Social and Economic Dynamics. He is the author of The Price of the Past: Russia's Struggle with the Legacy of a Militarized Economy (Brookings, 1996) and coauthor of Open for Business: Russia's Return to the Global Economy(Brookings, 1992). Barry W. Ickes is associate professor of economics at Pennsylvania State University and director of research at the New Economic School, Moscow.

"The series "Russia and the Asia-Pacific" explores political, economic, social, cultural and environmental interactions of the Russian Far East within its Asian-Pacific context as well as with the Russian capital in the past and present. Its first volume addresses from a multidisciplinary perspective notably the following questions: How were and are directives from a centre thousands of kilometers away perceived and implemented by actors in this region? To which extent was and is the centre successful or how did or does it fail in integrating a region as far away from the centre as the Russian Far East in its state structures? How have notions of "centre" and "periphery" changed over time?

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- 1 Overview -- 2 Challenges to Firm Competitiveness and Opportunities for Success -- 3 Global Competition and the Peripheral Player: A Promising Future -- 4 The Regional Business Environment in the Global Context -- 5 Dispute Resolution and Firms' Competitiveness in the MENA Region -- 6 Corporate Governance: A Framework for Implementation -- 7 Transparency between Government and Business -- 8 Strengthening Small and Medium Enterprises for International Competitiveness -- 9 Support Services and the Competitiveness of Small and Medium Enterprises in the MENA Region -- 10 Beyond Credit-A Taxonomy of Small and Medium- Size Enterprises and Financing Methods for Arab Countries -- 11 The Competitive Position of the Tourism Industry in the MENA Region -- Index.

The volume deals with competition among regional and external players for the redistribution of power and international status in the Middle East and North Africa, with a focus on Russia's renewed role and the implications for US interests. Over the last few years, a crisis of legitimacy has beset the liberal international order.
In this context, the configuration of regional orders has come into question, as in the extreme case of the current collapse in the Middle East. The idea of a "Russian resurgence" in the Middle East set against a perceived American withdrawal has captured the attention of policymakers and scholars alike, warranting further examination. This volume, a joint publication by ISPI and the Atlantic Council, gathers analysis on Washington's and Moscow's policy choices in the MENA region and develops case studies of the two powers' engagament in the countries beset by major crises.

During the Cold War, Soviet influence and Leninist ideology were inseparable. But the collapse of both systems threw Russian influence into limbo. In this book, James Sherr draws on his in-depth study of the country over many years to explain and analyse the factors that have brought Russian influence back into play. Today, Tsarist, Soviet and contemporary approaches combine in creative and discordant ways. The result is a policy based on a mixture of strategy, improvisation and habit. The novelty of this policy and its apparent successes pose possible dangers for Russia's neighbours, the West and Russia itself

Moscow has the largest Muslim population of any city in Europe. In 2015, some 2 million Muslim Muscovites celebrated the opening of the continent's biggest mosque. One quarter of the Soviet population was ethnically Muslim, and today their grandchildren, living in the lands between Bukhara, Kazan and the Caucasus, once again have access to their historical traditions. But they also suffer the effects of civil war, mass migration and political instability. At the highest levels, Islam has been swept up into Russia's broader search for identity, as the old question of eastern versus western takes on new force. Dominic Rubin has spent the last three years interviewing Muslims across Russia, from Sufi shaykhs in Dagestan, new Muslim artists on the Volga and professionals in Kyrgyzstan to guest-workers commuting between Russia and Uzbekistan and Kremlin-sponsored muftis hammering out a new Russian Muslim ideology in Moscow. He discovers their family histories, their faith journeys and their hopes and fears, caught between roles as traditionalist allies in the new Eurasian Russia and as potential traitors in Moscow's war on terror.

Preface - Alexey Bogaturov -- 1 Introduction - Anna A.Velikaya and Greg Simons -- 2 Russian Public Diplomacy: Historical Aspects - Olga Lebedeva -- 3 Russian Public Diplomacy and Nation Branding - Semed A. Semedov and Anastasiya G. Kurbatova -- 4 Development Diplomacy of the Russian Federation - Stanislav Tkachenko -- 5 Russia's policy and international cooperation: the challenges and opportunities of soft power - Natalia Bubnova -- 6 Russian Digital Diplomacy: A Rising Cyber Soft-Power? - Natalia Tsvetkova -- 7 Russian Public Diplomacy Through Higher Education - Alexey Fominykh -- 8 Russian Science Diplomacy - Elena Kharitonova & Irina Prokhorenko -- 9 The Role of civil society in Russian Public Diplomacy - Elena Stetsko -- 10 Multiple facets of Russian public diplomacy in international organizations: a case study - Marina Chepurina and Evgeny Kuznetsov -- 11 Russian business diplomacy in the South and Southeast Asia - Andrey Bykov & Kirill Solntsev -- 12 The Baltic Sea Region – Cooperation in the Human Dimension - Daria Akhutina -- 13 Strategic communication of Russia in Latin America - Evgeny N. Pashentsev -- 14 Public Diplomacy of Russia in the Middle East -- Vladimir Morozov and Greg Simons -- 15 Conclusion - Anna A. Velikaya and Greg Simons