2007 is the year of two jubilees: February and October, the two Russian revolutions, one of which has been canonized and the other anathemized by intellectuals. Together they have been called a failure of a great opportunity to attain freedom. Thinking in terms of lost opportunities is a weak point of Russian intellectuals. It has also been said that on the day Alexander II was to sign a new...

The book, published by IMEMO RAN, analyzes the concept of national security in China as it seeks to rapidly integrate into the global economy and become an international player. Chapters examine: energy security, ecologic security, military doctrine in the age of globalization. Other chapters examine China's relations with the EU, the USA, Shanghai Treaty Organization and more.

The authors of this book examine the historic period of the late 1980s and early 1990s, which saw the Communist regimes of Central and SE Europe being overthrown.

From Publishers Weekly. A lively, fact-packed account of China's spectacular, 30-year transformation from economic shambles following Mao's Cultural Revolution to burgeoning market superpower, this book offers a torrent of statistics, case studies and anecdotes to tell a by now familiar but still worrisome story succinctly.

A publication of the Russian Institute of Strategic Studies. Press run 350 copies.

How do Russians feel about private property? Private business? The book, based in empirical research conducted 2004-2005, seeks to provide insight and answers.