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• Political Risk for Foreign Firms in the Western Cis - an Analysis On Belarus, Moldova, Russia and Ukraine*

This report analyses the political risks of Belarus, Moldova, Russia and Ukraine from a foreign firm's point of view. Russia's increasing economic nationalism means increasing investment risk for foreign investors. The political climate in Ukraine is unfavourable to foreign investment but not to the extent that it would prevent or seriously restrict the possibilities of operating in the market. The political risk in Belarus is related to the centralisation of authority over economic policy. In Moldova, political risks for foreign investors are clearly present in this economically and politically problematic situation. All in all, political risk remains elevated in Belarus, Moldova, Russia and Ukraine

... approval ratings of both the president and prime minister are exceptionally high, and therefore, on...

• Journal for East European Management Studies
• Band 14 Nr. 4, Oktober 2009

• The Changing Roles of the Post-Transitional Economic Elite in Poland

The study characterised evolution of the role of a new economic elite in Poland using the three-elite-generations metaphor: breakthrough elite, transition elite and consolidation elite. Describing this evolution in terms of the neoliberal modernisation paradigm, "elitist paradigm " and transformation theory is insufficient for a theoretical reconstruction of changes occurring in states which, like Poland, are at the stage of development combining characteristics of post-communist, neoliberal and globalised capitalist societies. Other concepts are also useful, such as globalisation theory, world-systems theory or the varieties of capitalism approach that provide a different conceptual framework for the role of economic elites.

... context, such as in Russia and Ukraine, a different version of these strategies took the ...42% have access to a minister, and every fifth elite member claims to have acces... in 2005 - 2007, when the president and prime minister questioned the old rules and proposed the...

• Journal for East European Management Studies
• Band 13 Nr. 4, Oktober 2008