Russian Studies, Political Science, and the Philosophy of Technology

Guoli Liu, Joanna Drzewieniecki

• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Year: 2022
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781978772922
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Russian History
• Index: Politics & International Relations

This volume presents state-of-the-art creative scholarship in political science and area studies with an emphasis on Russia. The contributors, all well-known in their specialties, share the conviction that advancement in the social sciences can only be achieved through plural methodological approaches and interaction with various disciplines. Their work in this collection provides critical analyses of key issues in Russian and post-Soviet studies. It explores the most fruitful ways of studying Russia with particular emphasis on the federal system, politics in the era of Putin, challenges of Russian foreign policy, and Russian attitudes toward democracy. The vagaries of democracy are also explored in articles on Georgia and Turkey. Additionally, this book examines the philosophy of technology with an emphasis on critical theory, eco-domination, and engineering ethics.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Epigraph
• Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• Foreword
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Part I: Russian and Post-Soviet Studies
• Chapter 1: Highlighting Regional Dimensions of Political Systems: The Case of Yekaterinburg in Russia
• Chapter 2: The Democratic Promise of the Putin Generation?: Cultural Legacies, Generational Cohorts, and Democratic Values in Russia
• Chapter 3: Reflections on Postcommunist Transitions: 30 Years After the Soviet Collapse
• Chapter 4: Reflections on Russia: A Century (Plus) After the Revolution
• Chapter 5: Making Sense of Russia’s Interests
• Chapter 6: The Polish Underground’s 1944 Warsaw Uprising—a Participant’s View
• Chapter 7: Matched-Guise Reloaded: Revising a Classic Experiment for Complex Multilingual Settings
• Chapter 8: The Future of Janus-Faced Russia and Its Continuing Structural Legacy
• Part II: Philosophy of Technology
• Chapter 9: Critical Theory and Philosophy of Technology
• Chapter 10: Eco-Dominion
• Chapter 11: Engineering Ethics: A Narrative Reflection
• Part III: Logic of Political Inquiry and Comparative Politics
• Chapter 12: Improving Russian and East European Studies by Building on Pragmatism and the Lost Legacy of the Policy Sciences
• Chapter 13: Disciplines of Political Learning: How Political Science Arises Repeatedly
• Chapter 14: Political Polarization, Electoral Support for the AKP, and the Challenge of Democratization in Turkey, 2002–2021
• Chapter 15: Perfect Deterrence Theory
• Chapter 16: Uncovering the Causal Mechanism in a Crucial Case Study: The Crimean War
• Chapter 17: Women Heads of State and Government: Facilitating Conditions and Empowering Effects
• Chapter 18: Methodological Pluralism and Analytical Eclecticism in Political Science: The Logic of Political Inquiry
• Chapter 19: The Compleat Academic: Fred Fleron’s Academic Troika
• Index
• About the Contributors