Irvin Studin is President of the Institute for 21st Century Questions and Editor-in-Chief and Publisher of Global Brief magazine, Canada. Between 2014 and 2016, he was Professor of Public Policy in the Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, Russia. He is also co-founder of Ukraine's Higher School of Public Administration.

Provides a comprehensive survey of post-Soviet Russian strategic thinking, including Russian conceptions of political power, legitimacy and national identity

Chapter 1: Introduction: Ten Theses on Russia in the 21st Century; Irvin Studin.- Part I: Russian Strategy and Statecraft.- Chapter 2: The Objectives and Principles of the Russian State in the 21st Century; Alexei Kudrin & Vladimir Mau.- Chapter 3: Russian Political Ideology and Philosophy; Andrei Melville.- Chapter 4. The Future of Russia's Institutions; Alexander Auzan.- Chapter 5. Russian Federalism; Irina Busygina.- Chapter 6: The North Caucasus; Irina Starodubrovskaya.- Chapter 7: The Social Structure of Russia; Simon Kordonsky.- Chapter 8: Political Parties and Parliament; Alexander Kynev.- Chapter 9: Russian Media; Ilya Kiriya.- Chapter 10: Religion and the Russian Orthodox Church; Boris Knorre.- Chapter 11: Russian Civil Society; Irina Mersianova. Part II - Russian Public Policy.- Chapter 12. Foreign and Defence Policy; Fyodor Lukyanov.- Chapter 13: The Arctic; Alexander Sergunin & Valery Konyshev.- Chapter 14: National Security; Dmitry Baluev.- Chapter 15: International Economic Policy; Natalya Volchkova.- Chapter 16: Fiscal and Monetary Policy; Sergey Drobyshevsky, Georgiy Idrisov, Sergey Sinelnikov-Murylev & Pavel Trunin.- Chapter 17: Industrial and Innovation Policy; Yuri Simachev & Mikhail Kuzyk.- Chapter 18: Infrastructure and Transportation; Mikhail Blinkin.- Chapter 19: Energy and Natural Resources; Valeriy Kryukov.- Chapter 20: Education; Tatiana Klyachko.- Chapter 21: Health Care; Sergey Shishkin.- Chapter 22: Food and Agriculture; Svetlana Barsukova.- Chapter 23: Population and Migration; Vladimir Malakhov & Mark Simon.- Chapter 24: Environment; Sergey Bobylev.- Chapter 25: Science; Irina Dezhina.- Chapter 26: Sport; Andrey Adelfinsky & Valeryi Anashvili.- Chapter 27: Culture; Vitaly Kurennoy & Rouslan Khestanov.- Chapter 28: Families; Sergei Zakharov.- Chapter 29: Criminal Justice, Leonid Kosals & Sergei Pavlenko.- Part III - Russian Administration: State Institutions, Structures and Processes.- Chapter 30. The Bureaucracy; Vladimir Yuzhakov & Elena Dobrolyubova.- Chapter 31: The Judicial System - Sergey Pashin.- Chapter 32: Regional and Local Government; Natalia Zubarevich.- Chapter 33: State Corporations; Viktor Dementiev.- 

This book examines how Russia, the world's most complicated country, is governed. As it resumes its place at the centre of global affairs, the book explores Russia's overarching strategies, and how it organizes itself (or not) in policy areas ranging from foreign policy and national security to health care, education, immigration, science, sport, agriculture, the environment and criminal justice. The book also discusses the structures and institutions on which Russia relies in order to deliver its goals in these areas of national life, as well as what's to be done, in policy terms, to improve the country's performance in its first post-Soviet century. Edited by Irvin Studin, the book includes contributions from a tremendous list of Russia's leading thinkers and specialists, including Alexei Kudrin, Vladimir Mau, Alexander Auzan, Simon Kordonsky, Fyodor Lukyanov, Natalia Zubarevich and Andrey Melville.