FROM OLIGARCHS TO OLIGARCHY

Q2 Social Sciences
D. Siegel
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Abstract

Drawing heavily on theories about Russia's informal politics, American sanctions were designed to change Russian foreign policy by exploiting political conflict among oligarchs and the state elite; however, after nearly eight years of sanctions, Russian elites seem more united than ever. I propose that Russia's oligarchs—the ruthless self-interested economic elite in Russia's informal political system—might sometimes act as a cohesive oligarchy, particularly when their wealth is threatened from external rather than domestic sources, as has been the case under Western sanctions. Through an in-depth case study on the design and outcome of sanctions, this article seeks to develop a more dynamic theory of Russia's informal politics and explain the apparent cohesion among state and economic elites since 2014 as the result of a politics of wealth defense induced by Western sanctions.
从寡头到寡头
美国的制裁很大程度上借鉴了有关俄罗斯非正式政治的理论,目的是利用寡头和国家精英之间的政治冲突,改变俄罗斯的外交政策;然而,经过近8年的制裁,俄罗斯精英似乎比以往任何时候都更加团结。我认为,俄罗斯的寡头们——俄罗斯非正式政治体系中冷酷无情、自私自利的经济精英——有时可能会作为一个有凝聚力的寡头,尤其是当他们的财富受到外部而非国内来源的威胁时,就像西方制裁下的情况一样。通过对制裁的设计和结果进行深入的案例研究,本文试图发展一种更具活力的俄罗斯非正式政治理论,并解释2014年以来西方制裁引发的财富防御政治导致的国家和经济精英之间明显的凝聚力。
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World Affairs
World Affairs Social Sciences-Social Sciences (all)
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期刊介绍: World Affairs is a quarterly international affairs journal published by Heldref Publications. World Affairs, which, in one form or another, has been published since 1837, was re-launched in January 2008 as an entirely new publication. World Affairs is a small journal that argues the big ideas behind U.S. foreign policy. The journal celebrates and encourages heterodoxy and open debate. Recognizing that miscalculation and hubris are not beyond our capacity, we wish more than anything else to debate and clarify what America faces on the world stage and how it ought to respond. We hope you will join us in an occasionally unruly, seldom dull, and always edifying conversation. If ideas truly do have consequences, readers of World Affairs will be well prepared.
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