Russia's Addiction: The Political Economy of Resource Dependence

This is the title of my forthcoming book with Clifford Gaddy, Brookings Press, 2008 (this was obviously optimistic, but we are still working hard on it!!!). On this webpage I post materials relevant to the chapters in the forthcoming book. Draft chapters will be posted when ready.

Here are some recent articles on related topics:

The turmoil over Ukraine has led us to write this paper, Beyond Sanctions.

Here is a recent paper we wrote for the Legatum Institute titled "Russia Caught in the Bear Trap."

This short note on "The Missing Quadrant from March 2009 seem relevant now.

Here is a draft version of our paper on "Russia's Dependence on Resources," written for The Oxford Handbook of the Russian Economy, Michael V. Alexeev and Shlomo Weber, editors. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.

Here is a draft version of a paper on Putin's Protection Racket.

Here is a paper written for a volume on 20 years without Soviet Power, "Can Russia Kick Its Rent Addiction?" Pro et Contra, Volume 15, Issue 5,
September-October 2011.

Here is a paper we wrote on "Russia after the Global Financial Crisis," published in Eurasian Geography and Economics, vol.
51, No. 3, May-June 2010: pp. 281-311.

This is our first paper on resource rents, Resource Rents and the Russian Economy. It is published in Eurasian Geography and Economics, 2005.

Here is a presentation I gave on �Energy Security and Cooperation: Implications for Russia and Europe� at the Transatlantic Colloquium, �Europe, Russia, US Relations,�, Konrad Adenauer Foundation, September 8, 2007.

Here is a paper on Energy Interdependence and Security: Russia and Europe.

Here is an incomplete draft of a paper on Addiction and Withdrawal: Resource Rents and the Collapse of the Soviet Economy.

Here is a pdf of the presentation I gave of the Addiction paper at the ACES meetings, January 2007.

Here is a pdf of a presentation I made on Putin, Coase, and Khodorkovsky, at UC Berkeley, October 2007.

Here is an article that Cliff and I wrote for the National Interest on Putin's Third Way.

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