Ebook: Beyond state crisis? : postcolonial Africa and post-Soviet Eurasia in comparative perspective

Washington, D.C., Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2002. — 539 p.Beyond State Crisis? Postcolonial Africa and Post-Soviet Eurasia in Comparative Perspective studies two regions beset with extreme corruption, organized crime extending into warlordism, the disintegration of human services and economic institutions, and the breakdown of state after state.
The book examines state breakdown, democratization, economic reform, ethnicity, and the status of women, and it compares the consequences of postcommunism and postcolonialism. The contributors, representing fields such as political science, international relations, and sociology, come from the United States, Russia, Georgia, Sudan, and South Africa.List of Tables.
Acknowledgments.
Overview and Retrospective.
Introduction: 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.
Sovereignty, Violence, and War.
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 States and Private Armies.
Charles H. Fairbanks, Jr..
Civil Wars and State-Building in Africa and Eurasia.
David Holloway and Stephen John Stedman.
The Effects of State Crisis on African Interstate Relations (and Comparisons with Post-Soviet Eurasia).
Donald Rothchild.
Democratization and Political Economy.
Russia: Unconsolidated Democracy, Creeping Authoritarianism, or Unresolved Stagnation?
Lilia Shevtsova.
War, State-Making, and Democracy in Africa.
Richard Joseph.
The 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.
State and Society.
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.
Beyond State Crisis?.
Putting the State Back Together in Post-Soviet Georgia.
Ghia Nodia.
After the Fall: State Rehabilitation in Uganda.
Crawford Young.
The Effective State in Postcolonial Africa and Post-Soviet Eurasia: Hopeless Chimera or Possible Dream?
Mark R. Beissinger and Crawford Young.
Contributors.
Index.