Buchanan, Elizabeth2022-03-082022-03-081833-1459http://hdl.handle.net/1885/261924In today’s international political climate many approach Russian perspectives with measured caution. Yet, missing this handbook on how we might deal with the non-western world would be a mistake for both policymakers and for academia. In reviving the utility of traditional area studies and comparative politics for security studies practitioners, Voskressenski compiles a groundbreaking volume on democratisation processes across Asia, Africa and the Middle East. This unique text presents Russian scholarship on the intricacies of non-western political processes, covering a commendable array of historical and cultural drivers of non-western political developmentapplication/pdfen-AU© 2019 Institute for Regional Security20192020-12-20