Includes index

Russia in the world. Russia and the world / Thomas Graham ; Russia in world-systems perspective / Georgi Derluguian and Immanuel Wallerstein ; Russia’s foreign policy outlook / Dmitri Trenin ; Russia’s place in the world of unintended consequences, or Murphy’s Law and order / Fyodor Lukyanov ; Russia and the new "transitional Europe" / Arkady Moshes ; The South Caucasus in 2020 / Tom de Waal -- Political economy and economics. The "third cycle": is Russia headed back to the future? / Kirill Rogov ; Russia’s political economy: the next decade / Daniel Treisman ; The Russian economy through 2020: the challenge of managing rent addiction / Clifford Gaddy and Barry W. Ickles ; The Russian economy in limbo / Vladimir Milov -- Political system. Institution building and "institutional traps" in Russian politics / Vladimir Gelman ; Transition as a political institution: toward 2020 / Richard Sakwa ; Can the machine come to life?: prospects for Russia’s party system in 2020 / Henry Hale ; Scenarios for the evolution of the Russian political party system / Boris Makarenko -- State. The excessive role of a weak Russian state / Nikolay Petrov ; Center-periphery relations / Robert Orttung ; The continuing revolution in Russian military affairs: toward 2020 / Pavel Baev ; The armed forces in 2020: modern or Soviet? / Alexander Golts -- Regions. Russia’s regions and cities: scenarios for 2020 / Natalia Zubarevich ; Political systems in the Russian regions in 2020 / Aleksandr Kynev ; 2020: the last chance for the North Caucasus? / Aleksey Malashenko -- Society and civil society. Society, politics, and the search for community in Russia / Samuel Greene ; The inertia of passive adaptation / Lev Gudkov ; Between nomenklatura and elites / Nikolay Petrov ; The evolution of civic activeness / Jens Siegert -- Ideology and culture. Russia and the new "Russian world" / Igor Zevelev ; Runet space / Aleksey Sidorenko.