Beyond state crisis? : postcolonial Africa and post-Soviet Eurasia in comparative perspective / edited by Mark R. Beissinger and Crawford Young.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Beissinger, Mark R.

Young, Crawford, 1931-2020

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Postcolonialism--Africa.

Postcolonialism.

Politics and government.

Africa.

Postcolonialism--Eurasia.

Postcolonialism--Former Soviet republics.

Africa--Politics and government--1960-.

Eurasia--Politics and government.

Eurasia.

Former Soviet republics--Politics and government.

Former Soviet republics.

Physical Description:

xv, 514 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Woodrow Wilson Center Press ; Baltimore : Distributed by Johns Hopkins University Press, [2002]

Summary:

This book compares sub-Saharan Africa and the former Soviet Union, two regions beset by the breakdown of states suffering from extreme official corruption, organized crime extending into warlordism, and the disintegration of economic institutions and public institutions for human services. The contributors not only study state breakdown but also compare the consequences of post-communism with those of post-colonialism.

Contents:

Part I Overview and Retrospective

1. Introduction: Comparing State Crises across Two Continents / Mark R. Beissinger, Crawford Young 3

2. Convergence to Crisis: Pre-Independence State Legacies and Post-Independence State Breakdown in Africa and Eurasia / Mark R. Beissinger, Crawford Young 19

Part II Sovereignty, Violence, and War

3. At the Edge of the World: Boundaries, Territoriality, and Sovereignty in Africa / Achille Mbembe 53

4. Who Is Strong When the State Is Weak? Violent Entrepreneurship in Russia's Emerging Markets / Vadim Volkov 81

5. Mafiya Troubles, Warlord Crises / William Reno 105

6. Weak States and Private Armies / Charles H. Fairbanks, Jr. 129

7. Civil Wars and State-Building in Africa and Eurasia / David Holloway, Stephen John Stedman 161

8. The Effects of State Crisis on African Interstate Relations (and Comparisons with Post-Soviet Eurasia) / Donald Rothchild 189

Part III Democratization and Political Economy

9. Russia: Unconsolidated Democracy, Creeping Authoritarianism, or Unresolved Stagnation? / Lilia Shevtsova 217

10. War, State-Making, and Democracy in Africa / Richard Joseph 241

11. The East Goes South: International Aid and the Production of Convergence in Africa and Eurasia / Peter J. Stavrakis 263

12. Economic Reform and the Discourse of Democracy in Africa: Resolving the Contradictions / Peter M. Lewis 291

Part IV State and Society

13. Ethnicity and State-Building: Accommodating Ethnic Differences in Post-Soviet Eurasia / Gail W. Lapidus 323

14. Beyond Cultural Domination: Institutionalizing Equity in the African State / Francis M. Deng 359

15. Women and Political Change in Post-Soviet Eurasia and Postcolonial Africa / Aili Mari Tripp 385

Part V Beyond State Crisis?

16. Putting the State Back Together in Post-Soviet Georgia / Ghia Nodia 413

17. After the Fall: State Rehabilitation in Uganda / Crawford Young 445

18. The Effective State in Postcolonial Africa and Post-Soviet Eurasia: Hopeless Chimera or Possible Dream? / Mark R. Beissinger, Crawford Young 465.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1930365071

193036508X

OCLC:

48376060