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From: Elisabeth Sieca-Kozlowski <kozlowsk@club-internet.fr>
Subject: The Journal of Power Institutions in Post-Soviet Societies
Date: Wed, 4 May 2005 15:21:40 +0200

The Journal of POWER INSTITUTIONS IN POST-SOVIET SOCIETIES #2, 2005.
An electronic journal of social sciences www.pipss.org/

I am pleased to inform you that the second Issue of the Journal of Power Institutions in Post-Soviet Societies is now online at www.pipss.org.

The Journal of Power Institutions in Post-Soviet Societies is a semesterly publication devoted to armed forces and power ministries in post-Soviet societies. Pipss.org is a multi-disciplinary journal, which addresses issues across a broad field of disciplines in human and social sciences. Its main objective is to study changes and their underlying mechanisms in post-Soviet republics, through the analysis of the institutions that remain most hidden from the public eye: armies and power institutions.

As an electronic journal, pipss.org also aims to promote scholarly debate across as broad an audience as possible, and make CIS research available to Western scholars. An essential aspect of the journal is the establishment of links and comparisons between research findings concerning the different republics of the CIS, in order to better understand the development of each of them given that they all share a common past and have continued to share common features. The comparative dimension of the journal can be reinforced through reference to cultural areas other than those mainly covered by the journal. Hence, the comparative dimension must be understood in as wide a sense as possible, extending beyond the borders of the CIS.

Thanks to its international scientific board drawn from a large pool of leading academics and experts in their respective fields, it is in a position to become a leading source of analysis on post-Soviet societies.

The entire issue is available at http://www.pipss.org (Open Access Journal).

Elisabeth Sieca-Kozlowski Chief Editor

See the Table of Contents :

The Journal of Power Institutions in Post-Soviet Societies An electronic journal of social sciences Issue 2 - 2005 – Reflections on Policing in Post-Communist Europe

Foreword by Elisabeth Sieca-Kozlowski (Chief Editor, 2nd Issue Editor)

Introduction by Gilles Favarel-Garrigues (2nd Issue Editor)

Articles :

Marina Caparini & Otwin Marenin
Crime, Insecurity and Police Reform in Post-Socialist CEE

Adrian Beck
Reflections on Policing in Post-Soviet Ukraine : A Case Study of Continuity

Maria Los
Reshaping of Elites and the Privatization of Security : The Case of Poland

Nikolay Petrov
Siloviki in Russian Regions : New Dogs, Old Tricks

Book Reviews : Policing in Post-Communist Europe

« Criminalité, police et gouvernement : trajectoires post-communistes, Sous la direction de Gilles Favarel-Garrigues, Paris, l’Harmattan, collection logiques politiques, 2003 », reviewed by Anne Wuilleumier.

Other Book Reviews :

" Armiia i Ia. Materialy sotsiologicheskogo issledovaniia, situatsii, pis'ma, vyskazyvaniia. Sankt-Peterburgskaia regional'naia obsestvennaia pravozasitnaia organizatsiia "Soldatskie materi Sankt Peterburga". [The Army And Me. Materials for sociological enquiry, situations, letters, declarations by the "Soldiers’ Mothers of Saint Petersburg" organisation], Tuskarora, Saint Petersburg, 2003. " reviewed by Anna Colin Lebedev;

" My byli na etikh voinakh : Svidetel’stva Uchastnikov Sobytii 1989-2000 [We were in those wars : Witnesses of survivors of military conflicts of 1989-2000], Sankt-Petersburg, Zvezda (with the support of Soros Foundation « Open Society »). Comp. by Ia. A. Gordin, V.A. Grigor’ev, 2003, 319 p. " reviewed by Amandine Regamey;

" Amy Caiazza, Mothers and Soldiers. Gender, Citizenship and Civil Society in Contemporary Russia. Routledge. New York and London 2002. " reviewed by Elena Zdravomyslova ;

" Ekaterina Efimova, Sovremennaia tiur’ma : byt, traditsii, fol’klor [Contemporary prison: ways of life, traditions, folklore], Moscow : OGI, 2004 & Russian Criminal Tatoo Encyclopedia, Steidl / Fuel 2003. " reviewed by Youri Vavokhine;

" Jan T. Knoph, Civilian Control of the Russian State Forces: A Challenge in Theory and Practice, Stockholm: Swedish Defence Research Agency, 2004. Pp.132. " reviewed by David J. Betz.