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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Beyond state crisis? Washington, D.C. : Woodrow Wilson Center Press ; Baltimore : Distributed by Johns Hopkins University Press, ©2002 (OCoLC)606169188 Online version: Beyond state crisis? Washington, D.C. : Woodrow Wilson Center Press ; Baltimore : Distributed by Johns Hopkins University Press, ©2002 (OCoLC)606778061 |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Mark R Beissinger; Crawford Young |
ISBN: | 1930365071 9781930365070 193036508X 9781930365087 |
OCLC Number: | 48376060 |
Description: | xv, 514 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Comparing state crises across two continents / Mark R. Beissinger and Crawford Young -- Convergence to crisis : pre-independence state legacies and post-independence state breakdown in Africa and Eurasia / Mark R. Beissinger and Crawford Young -- At the edge of the world : boundaries, territoriality, and sovereignty in Africa / Achille Mbembe -- Who is strong when the state is weak? Violent entrepreneurship in Russia's emerging markets / Vadim Volkov -- Mafiya troubles, warlord crises / William Reno -- Weak state and private armies / Charles H. Fairbanks, Jr. -- Civil wars and state-building in Africa and Eurasia / David Holloway and Stephen John Stedman -- Effects of state crisis on African interstate relations (and comparisons with Post-Soviet Eurasia) / Donald Rothchild -- Russia : unconsolidated democracy, creeping authoritarianism, or unresolved stagnation? / Lilia Shevotsa -- War, state-making, and democracy in Africa / Richard Joseph -- East goes south : international aid and the production of convergence in Africa and Eurasia / Peter J. Stavrakis -- Economic reform and the discourse of democracy in Africa : resolving the contradictions / Peter M. Lewis -- Ethnicity and state-building : accommodating ethnic differences in post-Soviet Eurasia / Gail W. Lapidus -- Beyond cultural domination : institutionalizing equity in the African state / Francis M. Deng -- Women and political change in post-Soviet Eurasia and postcolonial Africa / Aili Mari Tripp -- Putting the state back together in post-Soviet Georgia / Ghia Nodia -- After the fall : state rehabilitation in Uganda / Crawford Young -- Effective state in postcolonial Africa and post-Soviet Eurasia : hopeless chimera or possible dream? / Mark R. Beissinger and Crawford Young. |
Responsibility: | edited by Mark R. Beissinger and Crawford Young. |
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This volume is one of the few comparative studies of the two regions. As such, it reaches for broader and more theoretical generalizations across distinct geographical and cultural ines, rendering the book novoe, informative, and unique. Choice The excellent scholarly studies in [ Beyond State Crisis?] offer both in-depth focus on specific countries and problems and useful comparative speculation regarding similarities and differences between the Eurasian and African experiences. They make a strong case for the serious scholarly comparison of the two regions... Any scholar interested in comparative studies and international relations will find a wealth of substantive detail and theoretical discussion by expert observers of state effectiveness and breakdown in this important book. -- Forest L. Grieves Perspectives on Political Science Will most certainly become a classic of comparative politics. -- Benjamin Neuberger Russian Review 2004 A volume that everyone, both professionals and students, concerned with the current world could read with profit. -- Daniel Chirot American Journal of Sociology 2003 Read more...


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- Postcolonialism -- Africa.
- Postcolonialism -- Eurasia.
- Postcolonialism -- Former Soviet republics.
- Africa -- Politics and government -- 1960-
- Eurasia -- Politics and government.
- Former Soviet republics -- Politics and government.
- Postcolonialisme -- Afrique.
- Postcolonialisme -- Eurasie.
- Postcolonialisme -- Ex-URSS.
- Afrique -- Politique et gouvernement -- 1960-
- Politics and government
- Postcolonialism.
- Africa.
- Eurasia.
- Soviet Union -- Former Soviet republics.
- Sozialer Wandel
- Kommunismus
- Nachfolge
- Postkolonialismus
- Demokratie
- Eurasien
- Afrika
- Staten.
- Effectiviteit.
- Postkolonialisme.
- Postcommunisme.
- Postcolonialisme.
- Eurasie -- Influence coloniale.
- Afrique -- Politique et gouvernement -- 1960- ...
- Eurasie -- Politique et gouvernement -- 1945- ...
- Ex-URSS -- Politique et gouvernement.
- Afrique -- Influence coloniale.
- Ex-URSS -- Influence coloniale.
- GUS.