Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: ian jeffries

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  • A GUIDE TO THE SOCIALIST ECONOMIES
    IAN JEFFRIES
    First published in 1990, A Guide to the Socialist Economies explores the evolution of a variety of economic systems in the socialist world and highlights major problems facing fourteen countries – Albania, Bulgaria, China, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, the GDR, Hungary, North Korea, Mongolia, Poland, Romania, the Soviet Union, Vietnam and Yugoslavia –against a background of continuous ...

    $960.00

  • THE EAST GERMAN ECONOMY
    IAN JEFFRIES
    Originally published in 1987, this book brings together leading authorities from Germany and the USA who analyze how the East German economy actually operated - planning and management, pricing, investment and innovation, the financial system, agriculture and foreign trade (including the special concessions granted by the then Federal Republic of Germany). The volume is an insi...

    $980.00

  • THE NEW RUSSIA
    IAN JEFFRIES
    The rapid changes in Russia since the collapse of the Soviet Union are often bewildering, with many frequent, highly significant changes in the different sectors of the economy and the political system. There have been frequent changes of personnel in government and economic management and many changes have been reversed - and sometimes forgotten, or at other times reinstated. ...

    $1,200.00

  • NORTH KOREA
    IAN JEFFRIES
    There is much intense interest in North Korea at present. This partly arises from questions about Korea's nuclear capability and intentions, and about the extent to which North Korea may be viewed as 'a rogue state' or part of 'the axis of evil'. In addition, however, North Korea has recently begun experimenting with reforms along Chinese lines. The vigour with which these will...

    $1,260.00

  • NORTH KOREA, 2009-2012
    IAN JEFFRIES
    North Korea continues to be a country of great concern internationally, where future developments are uncertain, especially as a result of the succession to the leadership of Kim Jong-un following the death of Kim Jong-il. It is also a country which is relatively unknown and relatively little studied. This book provides a comprehensive, detailed survey of economic and political...

    $1,420.00

  • ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENTS IN CONTEMPORARY RUSSIA
    IAN JEFFRIES
    This book provides a comprehensive overview of Russia’s difficult economic transition from a command economy since the early 1990s. It covers the financial crisis of August 1998 and the global financial crisis a decade later. Key subjects covered include economic transition, privatization and liberalization; changes in land ownership and agriculture; energy; foreign direct inve...

    $1,360.00

  • CONTEMPORARY VIETNAM
    IAN JEFFRIES
    This book provides full details of contemporary economic and political developments in Vietnam. It continues the overview of developments up to late 2005 which were covered in the author’s Vietnam: A Guide to Economic and Political Developments (also published by Routledge, 2006). Key topics covered include Vietnam's success, in general, in maintaining high rates of growth in t...

    $1,320.00

  • POLITICAL DEVELOPMENTS IN CONTEMPORARY RUSSIA
    IAN JEFFRIES
    This book provides a comprehensive overview of political developments in Russia since late 2000, following on from where the author’s previous publication, The New Russia, left off. It covers all aspects of politics including the following: the highly centralized nature of power in Russia; central government and presidential elections; regional government and developments in th...

    $640.00

  • POLITICAL DEVELOPMENTS IN CONTEMPORARY CHINA
    IAN JEFFRIES
    China’s role in global events today cannot be overestimated. This book provides a comprehensive and detailed overview of contemporary political developments in China. Key topics covered include: China's international relations with its neighbours and with the international community more widely; demographic developments; Taiwan; Macao and Hong Kong, Tibet, Uighurs; human rights...

    $640.00

  • ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENTS IN CONTEMPORARY CHINA
    IAN JEFFRIES
    China’s role in global affairs today continues to rise. This book provides an authoritative, comprehensive and detailed overview of contemporary economic developments in China. Key topics include agriculture; the market gradually replacing central planning; the global financial crisis; the reform of state-owned industrial enterprises; the non-state sectors; the ‘open-door’ poli...

    $640.00

  • CONTEMPORARY NORTH KOREA
    IAN JEFFRIES
    This book provides full details of contemporary economic and political developments in North Korea since late 2005, continuing the overview of developments which were covered in the author’s North Korea: A Guide to Economic and Political Developments (Routledge 2006). Key topics covered include: the succession; family visits; human rights; nuclear capability and intentions; rec...

    $1,360.00

  • A HISTORY OF EASTERN EUROPE
    ROBERT BIDELEUX / IAN JEFFRIES
    This welcome second edition of A History of Eastern Europe provides a thematic historical survey of the formative processes of political, social and economic change which have played paramount roles in shaping the evolution and development of the region. Subjects covered include: Eastern Europe in ancient, medieval and early modern times the legacies of Byzantium, the Ottoman E...

    $1,540.00

  • MONGOLIA
    IAN JEFFRIES
    With Mongolia fast becoming a significant exporter of minerals and raw materials, this book provides a full account of political and economic events in this important country. It focuses on the period since the establishment of the Soviet-backed Mongolian People’s Republic in 1924 and the transition towards a democratic free market system since the collapse of the Soviet Union....

    $1,560.00

  • CHINA: A GUIDE TO ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL DEVELOPMENTS
    IAN JEFFRIES
    There is currently widespread interest in the Chinese economy, due to its huge and rapid growth, and the consequent impact on world business and the world economy. At the same time, there are concerns about China's political system, China's human rights record and the degree to which reform - the development of 'socialism with Chinese characteristics' - represent real liberaliz...

    $1,320.00

  • THE BALKANS
    ROBERT BIDELEUX / IAN JEFFRIES
    An excellent companion volume to the successful A History of Eastern Europe, this is a country-by-country treatment of the contemporary history of each of the Balkan states: Albania, Bulgaria, Romania, Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Montenegro and Kosova. With a distinctive conceptual framework for explaining divergent patterns of historical change, the boo...

    $1,340.00

  • VIETNAM
    IAN JEFFRIES
    Winning the Vietnam War proved easier than winning the peace. Since 1975, the reunited country has faced the problem of how a poorer, planned economy in which state ownership and control could successfully absorb a more advanced, capitalist economy. In addition, the collapse of communism and the end of the Cold War heralded a new age in Vietnam’s internal and external relations...

    $1,320.00

  • THE COUNTRIES OF THE FORMER SOVIET UNION AT THE TURN OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
    IAN JEFFRIES
    Offering a unique level of coverage, this book provides a comprehensive survey of the political and economic development of the countries of the former Soviet Union from the mid-1990s onwards. ...

    $1,460.00

  • THE CAUCASUS AND CENTRAL ASIAN REPUBLICS AT THE TURN OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
    IAN JEFFRIES
    This book provides a unique level of coverage of economic and political events of global significance, including foreign trade, foreign direct investment, the impact of oil and natural gas finds, Islamic extremism, the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States and the reaction of the CIS countries and the war on international terrorism. It will provide an invalua...

    $1,240.00

  • ECONOMIES IN TRANSITION
    IAN JEFFRIES
    First Published in 2004. This remarkable book continues the work begun by Ian Jeffries in Socialist Economies and the Transition to the Market: A Guide (1993) and A Guide to the Economies in Transition (1996). Focusing on China, Cuba, Mongolia, North Korea and Vietnam, Jeffries provides an extensive guide to countries in a state of economic flux. Analysing major political as we...

    $1,240.00

  • THE FORMER YUGOSLAVIA AT THE TURN OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
    IAN JEFFRIES
    This book focuses on the recent political and economic events in the former Yugoslavia.The author presents a clear, detailed and accessible breakdown of the developments in: Bosnia-Hercegovina, Croatia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Slovenia and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro). The role of the West in the mor ...

    $1,240.00

  • EASTERN EUROPE AT THE TURN OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
    IAN JEFFRIES
    Following on from Jeffries' 2001 Economies in Transition: A Guide to China, Cuba, Mongolia, North Korea and Vietnam at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century, this comprehensive survey of economic and political change focuses on the countries of Eastern Europe. Jeffries also discusses the general issues involved in economic transition, including `big ...

    $1,240.00

  • SOCIALIST ECONOMIES AND THE TRANSITION TO THE MARKET
    IAN JEFFRIES
    This provides a detailed account of each of the socialist countries and an analysis of the various problems they have met in the long transition to market economies, each of which is very different. ...

    $2,800.00