Persistent state weakness in the global age
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Ashgate,
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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 ... |