Persistent state weakness in the global age

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Bibliographic Details
Group Author: Kostovicova Denisa.; Bojicic-Dzelilovic Vesna.
Published: Ashgate,
Publisher Address: Farnham, England
Publication Dates: c2009.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
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Carrier Form: xiv, 213 p.: ill. ; 25 cm.
ISBN: 9780754676126 (hardback : alk. paper)
0754676129 (hardback : alk. paper)
9780754698739 (ebook)
0754698734 (ebook)
Index Number: D03
CLC: D03
Call Number: D03/P466
Contents: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : State weakening and globalization / Denisa Kostovicova and Vesna Bojicic-Dzelilovic -- 1. Understanding leviathan's malaise : stateness and the crisis of governability in post-communist polities / Venelin I. Ganev -- 2. Post-Soviet state weakness : legacies of informal networks and troubled transitions / Stacy Closson -- 3. Informal institutions of political participation in the Serbian security sector / Timothy Edmunds -- 4. Afghanistan : the patrimonial trap and the dream of institution-building / Antonio Giustozzi -- 5. Durability of weak states in the Middle East / Kristian Coates Ulrichsen -- 6. State failure and state-building in Russia, 1992-2004 / Vadim Volkov -- 7. Foreign intervention and state reconstruction : Bosnian fragility in comparative perspective / Marie-Joelle Zahar -- 8. State formation and persistent hybridity in Africa : reflections from a development and conflict perspective / Tobias Debiel and Birgit Pech -- 9. Measuring state failure/weakness : do the Balkan cases fit? / Susan L. Woodward ...