Militarizing democracy

White, S. and Kryshtanovskaya, O. (2003) Militarizing democracy. Northwestern Journal of International Affairs, 5, pp. 12-20.

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Abstract

There has been continued speculation about the nature of the Russian presidency, and about its current incumbent (‘Who is Mister Putin?’ was the celebrated inquiry of a reporter on the Philadelphia Inquirer early in 2000). There has been even greater speculation about the nature of the Putin leadership as a whole, and about the patterns of informal association within it (including a ‘Yeltsin’ or ‘family’ element, a ‘St Petersburg element’, a ‘Chekist’ or security element, and ‘childhood friends’). The project sought to examine issues of this kind more closely than has hitherto been possible, using less familiar sources of printed data, current organisational archives, and interviews with elite members and (particularly) with those able to examine their patterns of interaction at first hand. The project was intended to advance scholarly understanding of such matters, and no less, to help to inform the Western foreign policy community. The project was directed by Stephen White, working closely with Dr Olga Kryshtanovskaya of the Institute of Sociology, Russian Academy of Sciences, with whom he has collaborated on such matters for more than a decade and with whose institution the Department of Politics at Glasgow University has a long-standing protocol of cooperation.

Item Type:Articles
Status:Published
Refereed:Yes
Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID:White, Professor Stephen
Authors: White, S., and Kryshtanovskaya, O.
College/School:College of Social Sciences > School of Social and Political Sciences > Politics
Journal Name:Northwestern Journal of International Affairs

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