Rentierism, ‘Capitalist Breakthroughs’ and Non-Transformative Development in Late Putinism
Journal: Europe Asia Studies
Year: 2023

This essay explores 'territories of accelerated development' (TORs) to reconstruct the economic policymaking, development institutions and macroeconomic framework of late Putinism since the 2010s. It argues that even with Russia's integration into the world economy and the developmental rhetoric of state elites, TORs and the national developmental regime around them reproduce the patronal management and recycling of rents rather than the transformative and state-permeated facilitation of product