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Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003
From: IPROG <iprog_moscow@yahoo.com>
Subject: new publication
PRESS RELEASE
The Institute for Globalization Studies (IPROG) is pleased to announce the publication (in Russian) of a collection of articles, "Russia in the Global Center-Periphery Relationship" (edited by Dr.Dmitri Glinski). The articles are based on the papers presented at the joint conference of IMEMO (Institute of World Economy & International Relations, of the Russian Academy of Sciences) and IPROG. In early 2003, our Institute launched an academic and political debate on the Center-Periphery relationship, both among and within nations, as an integral formula for analyzing inequalities, mutual alienation, and the conflicts generated by them at the global, national, and other levels. In June 2003, IMEMO (Russia's oldest foreign policy think tank and academic research center) and IPROG (a young, policy-oriented private institute), with support by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, held their first joint conference, "Russia in the Global Center-Periphery Relationship: A Status Quo Power or an Agent of Change?" The conference brought together scholars from a range of research centers and disciplines (political scientists, historians, sociologists, economists, philosophers), as well as activists of transnational movements for global democracy and justice (for the full list of participants, see http://www.iprog.ru/en/activity).
The present volume, published by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation Moscow Office, includes a selection of the conference materials, each with an English-language summary. The collection covers a range of issues woven together in the center-periphery framework, from theoretical survey of development studies to Russia's current relations with the US and Western Europeans, as well as with India and China, the trans-atlantic contradictions, and broader topics, such as the cohabitation of nation states with transnational capital, the identity and prospects of semi-peripheral nations as a group, and the changing roles of non-state actors in the global arena. The authors also consider center-periphery relationships at the sub- and cross-national level, in Russia and in the West; thus, two articles are focused respectively on Russia's middle class and labor, analyzed in conjuction with their Western counterparts. The authors of th! e collection advocate alternative directions for Russia's foreign, social, and economic policies aimed at bringing the interests of the majority of Russians from the periphery to the center of Russia's politics and public debate.
The conference and the book consitute the first project in IPROG's long-term program of revitalizing and developing Russia's progressive traditions of critical social thought.
For comments and copies of the book, please e-mail to iprog_moscow@yahoo.com.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
I. INSTEAD OF A FOREWORD: INVITATION TO THE DEBATE
Boris Kagarlitsky (IPROG), "Russia in the Modern World System: Another
Periphery or an Agent of Change?"
Dmitri Glinski (IPROG/IMEMO), "The Post-Reform Russia in the
Center-Periphery Dimension: Defining a Research Agenda"
II. PERIPHERY, SEMI-PERIPHERY, CENTER: THE MAPPING OF THE GLOBAL ORDER
Marat Cheshkov (IMEMO), "The Center-Periphery Vision of the Universe and
Development Studies"
Vladimir Khoros (IMEMO), "Semi-Periphery in the Context of
Globalization"
Georgi Derluguian (Northwestern University, USA), "The Nation-State and Yet
Another Globalization"
III. RUSSIA AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE GLOBAL CENTER
Alexander Neklessa (Institute for Economic Strategies / Institute of Africa,
RAS), "The Reconfiguration of the World"
Dmitri Glinski, "Transnational Convergence of Elites and the
Orientalization of Political Culture in the U.S."
Boris Kagarlitsky, "The New Periphery and the Euro-Atlantic
Competition"
IV. FORMS OF A PERIPHERAL CONDITION AND THE WAYS OUT
Viktor Krassilshchikov (IMEMO), "The Modernization Trap in the
Post-Industrial Era: Russia and the Asian Tigers in a Comparative
Perspective"
Olga Alexandrova (Institute for the Study of Socio-Economic Problems of the
Population, RAS), "Russia's Middle Class in the Global Context"
Karine Clement (Institute of Sociology/IPROG), "The World of Labor as an
Internal Periphery and the So-Called Antiglobalist Movement in Russia and in the
West"
Sergei Lounev (IMEMO), "Global Trends and the Prospects for Developing the
Russia-India-China Triangular Relationship"
ANNEX. The New Global Hegemony (A document of the Golitsyno Conference)
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
August 2003 / 210 p. / Cloth
ABOUT THE INSTITUTE
The Institute of Globalization Studies (http://www.iprog.ru) is a Moscow-based non-profit, non-governmental and non-partisan agency with the main purposes of applied scholarly research, public policy advocacy, and political project-building.
Since 2002, the Institute has been going through a period of restructuring and transition to an internationalist team coming from the democratic left of Russia's political spectrum. The Institute's former director Dr. Mikhail Delyagin has quit to serve as economic policy adviser to Russia's Prime Minister. Current director of the institute is Dr. Boris Kagarlitsky and deputy director is Dr. Dmitri Glinski.
The Institute's strategic mission, as conceived by its new leadership, is to inform and influence public debate in Russia and abroad on the issues of globalization, center-periphery relationship in t! he world system and within nations, as well as international security. The goal is to reclaim the legitimacy of progressive, democratic solutions to Russian and international problems in Russia's public opinion, and to lay the ground for the rebirth of the left-of-center internationalism as a major force in Russian society and politics. The Institute pursues this mission in close cooperation and dialogue with like-minded agencies and individuals in Russia and abroad.
The Institute's Background
In 1989-91, Russia missed its chance for a democratic revolution. After ten years of ruinous neo-liberal economic policies, authoritarian-bureaucratic drift, and the government's accomodation to the unipolar world project, Russia's domestic and foreign policy debate is heavily monopolized, while genuinely democratic forces are dramatically weakened, parochialized and isolated from their counterparts elsewhere. In this situation, it is urgently needed to enlarge! the horizons of the public debate, to contextualize Russia's internal plight within its global environment, and to build communication channels for more different Russian voices to be heard in the international community.
The Institute's Policy Objectives
* developing and articulating progressive democratic responses on the basis of justice and equality to issues of globalization, center-periphery relationship and international security, through the Institute's printed and internet publications and public events;
* building and facilitating communication and the flow of ideas among the agents of progressive democratic change in Russia, as well as between them and their co-thinkers abroad;
* ensuring domestic and international publicity for progressive democratic initiatives in Russia, internationalizing Russia's policy debates;
* conducting a systematic evaluation and critique of Russia's current legislation and government policies at home and abroa! d ;
* developing solutions for Russia's cultural, ethnic, and religious conflicts within a broader international context, exposing and opposing racism, ethnic and religious hatred, and violations of human and civil rights.
Contacts:
Russia, Moscow, +7 (095) 289-96-20, info@iprog.ru
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