The People and their Ego
Authoritarian rule and legitimacy

Osteuropa 8/2014
160 pages, 5 figures
Price: 12,00 €
ISBN: 978-3-8305-3349-8

Deutsche Fassung

Contents

• Nikolay Mitrokhin
  Infiltration, Instruction, Invasion
  Russia’s War in Ukraine
• Emil Souleimanov
  From Grozny to Aleppo
  North Caucasian Jihadists in the Syrian Civil War
• Andreas Heinemann-Grüder
  Hierarchy and Autonomy
  On the Operation of Central Asia’s Security Establish-ments

• Authoritarian Rule and Legitimacy

• Timm Beichelt
  Legitimate Authoritarianism?
  Political Stability in the Post-Soviet Space
• Bernd Simon
  Identity and Power
  When and Why Repression is Accepted
• Dirk Jörke
  Size of State and Form of Government
  Russia with an Eye to Herodotus and Montesquieu
• Nikolaj Petrov
  Legitimacy, Repression, Collapse
  Developmental Stages of the Putin Regime
• Cameron Ross
  Putin’s Popular Autocracy
  The Sources of Legitimacy in a Hybrid Regime
• Boris Makarenko
  Repression Indolence
  Political Culture and Authoritarian Rule in Russia
• Andrei Melville
  King of the Hill
  Stability and Fragility of Post-Soviet Regimes
• Valerij Ledjaev
  Consensus, Manipulation, Violence, Force
  The Continuum of Legitimacy Creation