ABSTRACT

This edited book analyses the issues of state-building, the rule of law and good governance, and human rights in the post-Soviet space after 30 years from the USSR dissolution.

In doing so, it assesses the presence (or absence) and the level of influence of the Soviet legacies in the constructed political and legal systems of the post-Soviet republics. Assessing whether individual’s interests are protected in theory and practice, the book conceptualizes the legacies that the Soviet Union left in the post-Soviet space after 30 years of disintegration.

This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of human rights, governance, democratization studies, post-Soviet and Russia studies, and more widely to comparative politics, political economy, humanitarian studies and political history.

chapter 1|13 pages

Soviet Union Dissolution and Thirty Years of Independence

Introduction and Perspective

part I|48 pages

State-Building Process in the Aftermath of Soviet Union Dissolution: The Challenges of Democratic Statehood Building with a Memory and a Legacy

part II|43 pages

Rule of Law and Good Governance in Post-Soviet Space: Challenges and Opportunities

chapter 5|14 pages

Democratisation and Political Transformation in Georgia

Cutting the Soviet Union Ties

chapter 6|13 pages

Rule of Law in Moldova

Illusion or Reality?

chapter 7|14 pages

“Good Enough” Governance and Rule of Law in Armenia

Between Theory and Praxis

part III|74 pages

On the Law and Practice of Human Rights in the Post-Soviet Space: Progress and Discontents

chapter 11|15 pages

A Union or, rather, a Dis-Union of Nations?

Legacies of Soviet “Nationality Policies” and their Influence on Law and Practice in the Post-Soviet States