Post-Socialist World Orders: Russia, China and the UN System (MacMillan International Political Economy S)

Post-Socialist World Orders presents a study of Soviet/Russian Federation and Chinese policies in selected UN institutions from the early 1980s to the early 1990s. The analysis is set in the context of research in international political economy: Part I focuses on Russia and comprises chapters on foreign policy, relations with international financial institutions, technical agencies, and approaches to peace and security issues. Part II deals with China's foreign policy and economic modernization, and examines policies in the same set of institutions. Russia and China have experienced turbulent change in the last decade. Each in different ways has confronted the twin requirements of economic modernisation and democratisation while attempting to determine its place in the international system of the 1990s.

International institutions have been closely affected by and in some cases have sought to influence, these developments. Central to policy shifts in both Russia and China, for example, has been a search for a secure base of support from the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. Moscow and Beijing have been central players in the United Nations' responses to the conflicts in southern Africa, the Middle East and the former Yugoslavia.

Professor Boardman's book sets these events in their historical, economic and political contexts. It is based on extensive research in UN agencies, and interviews in Russia, Ukraine and China. Post-Socialist World Orders constitutes a lively and timely contribution to debates on the course of Western relations with Russia and China, and on the future of the UN system.
Front Matter....Pages i-xii Introduction: Political Economy and Institutional Order....Pages 1-8 Front Matter....Pages 9-9 Historical Ironies: The Gorbachev Moment and the (Re)Emergence of Russia....Pages 11-34 Bretton Woods and After: Flirtations with Capitalism....Pages 35-63 Interesting Diversions: The Politics of the Non-Political....Pages 64-88 Beyond Common Security: Russia, the UN and Conflict Resolution....Pages 89-112 Front Matter....Pages 113-113 From Periphery to Pole: China and Multilateralism....Pages 115-135 Understanding the Times: The UN System in a Complex World....Pages 136-159 Front Matter....Pages 161-161 The UN System and World Order....Pages 163-175 Back Matter....Pages 176-200 This text presents a study of Soviet/Russian Federation and Chinese policies in selected UN institutions from the early 1980s to the early 1990s. It also examines both country's foreign policies. The analysis is set in the context of research in international political economy. This book presents a study of Soviet/Russian Federation and Chinese policies in selected UN institutions from the early 1980s to the early 1990s. The analysis is set in the context of research in international political economy Robert Boardman. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.