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Gorbachev¿s accession to General Secretary promised great changes to the Soviet Union and its relationship with the rest of the world. This book, first published in 1987, discusses the problems faced by Gorbachev when he entered office and how he planned to tackle them. A fascinating insight into Soviet economic and political policy in the years leading up to the Union¿s collapse, this reissue will be of particular importance to students and a...

First published in 1985, this book offered a fresh analysis of the problems faced by the Soviet economy by focussing on the key issues in the economic planning system. David Dyker considers the available options for reform during the 1980s and the most likely developments. This is a comprehensive title written by a renowned expert on the Soviet economy, which will be of particular value to students and academics researching the political and e...

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David Dyker argues that the current chaos can only be understood in the context of the failure of fifty years of central planning. He analyses this and some of the new problems on the way to assessing whether the reforms will succeed.

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Yugoslavia and After presents contributions by leading authorities on the origins of the Balkan crisis, the reasons for the decay and dissolution of the old Yugoslavia and the nature of the new regimes.

This book addresses one of the fundamental problems in Russian society, and in Russia's relations with the rest of the world. Why do Russians tend to react differently from ¿us¿ in given diplomatic or business situations? Why do they find the notion of a contract difficult to grasp? Why do they seem hostile to the principle of the level playing field? How do they see Russia's position within the globalised economy? In order to probe these issu...

In this collection of essays David A Dyker explores some of the most difficult and fascinating aspects of the process of transition from autocratic "real socialism" to capitalism that is sometimes democratic, sometimes authoritarian. The stress is on the economic dimension of transformation, but the author sets the economic drama firmly within a political economy framework and a historical perspective. Trends in key economic variables are anal...

Address the crucial question of how countries which have suffered losses in prductivity levels and innovatory momentum over perhaps 25 years can rediscover their dynamism.

A product of the Framework V research project, this book addresses one of the key problems facing the EU today: Why is the ?new? EU so much poorer than the ?old?, and how will EU enlargement help to solve the problem? Focusing on the productivity problems underlying the East-West gap, it looks in particular at the role that foreign investment and R&D, can play in closing it. Against that background, the book assesses what role proactive develo...

This important book focuses on post-Lisbon Agenda issues of alignment and misalignment on different dimensions of European society and the European economy, including industrial systems, R&D, systems, educational systems and job markets. It also looks in particular at the peripheral regions of Europe ¿ the less developed parts of ¿old¿ Europe, the parts of old Europe that are outside or only half-inside the EU, the new member-states of the EU,...

This 1983 book presents a comprehensive account of the cycle of fixed capital investment in the Soviet Union, from strategic decision-taking in the Kremlin down to the level of individual building sites.