Democratization and Globalization: The Case of Russia
by Yuri Fedorov
# Publisher: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
# Categories : Globalization (2000)
# Identifications : Working Papers
# Number of Pages: 29
# Publication Date: 13 November 2000
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Increasing globalization is forcing Russia to make some very serious choices about her political and economic systems and her national identity. Russia may seek to “participate in globalization” and gradually associate herself with the community of democracy. This, apart from anything else, will allow Russia to use effectively her still-strong scientific assets, technological achievements and high educational potential with a view to building a modern post-industrial economy and society. Such a choice would require Russia to reject her traditional suspiciousness (which sometimes borders on paranoia) toward the outside world and accept democratic standards, values, political practices and institutions, thus establishing true (liberal) democracy. In that case Russia will face a real, although long-term, prospect of economic rebirth on a new structural and institutional basis.
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