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From: "Martha DOUGLASS" <Douglasm@oup.co.uk>
Subject: Federalism, Democratization, and the Rule of
Law in Russia
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002
Dear Mr. Johnson,
We should be very grateful indeed if you would share with your readers an important new book in the field of Russian studies and comparative government.
Oxford University Press is very pleased to announce the publication of a new book by Jeffrey Kahn, Federalism, Democratization, and the Rule of Law in Russia. Combining three fields of scholarship - political science, law, and Russian area studies - Kahn explores the shaky political, legal and conceptual foundations of the Russian Federation. Kahn's book is already drawing praise from experts in the field. "I have not seen a better account, or a more perceptive one, in any language," writes University of London Professor William E. Butler, Britain's leading expert on Russian law. "Dr. Jeffrey Kahn's admirable and thoroughly researched study offers invaluable insights on what has been transpiring in the world of Russian federalism (and beyond) from the earliest Soviet days to the present, with particular emphasis and depth of the post-Soviet decade."
Declarations of sovereignty, constitutions, bilateral treaties, and judicial opinions are the core of primary sources around which the book is structured. These written sources are augmented by an extensive range of interviews with federal and regional officials, lawyers, academics, politicians (including the presidents of two ethnic republics) and opposition activists. One of the major goals of the book is, where appropriate, to bring together the insights of comparative law and comparative politics. The author received his doctorate in politics from Oxford and his law degree from the University of Michigan, and has travelled widely in Russia. The result, as Butler notes, is that "Kahn's study is the best and most thoughtful account available of the early experience" of the new Russian federalism.
Further information may be obtained at our website:
<http://www.oup.co.uk/isbn/0-19-924699-8>.
Yours sincerely,
Martha Douglass
Oxford University Press
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