List of contributors Foreword Nicolas Monceau and Daniel Bourmaud Part I: Rising Powers and Institutions Presentation. Major Emerging Nations Seen from the Inside Daniel Bourmaud Executive-Judiciary Relationships and the Strengthening of the Judiciary in Brazilian Presidentialism Jorge Barrientos-Parra and Lizandra de Fátima Donato Intellectual Differentiations and Debates on the Rule of Law in Contemporary China: Liberalism versus Leftism Wenhua Jia Government and Business in the Regions and Small Towns of Russia: A Neo-Institutional Analysis Alla Chirikova Institutional Trust in China Ting Yan Part II: Rising Powers and Elites Transformation of Post-Soviet Political-Administrative Elites Alexander Duka Neoliberal Form of Governmentality and the Islamization of Turkey under the AKP Rule: Growth vs. Fundamental Freedoms Ayhan Kaya Civil-Military Relations in Turkey up to the Failed Military Coup Attempt of July 2016 Nicolas Monceau