Persistent state weakness in the global age / / edited by Denisa Kostovicova and Vesna Bojicic-Dzelilovic

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910817298003321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Burlington, VT, : Ashgate, 2009
• ISBN: 1-315-60009-9; 1-317-08206-0; 1-317-08205-2; 1-282-34453-6; 9786612344534; 0-7546-9873-4
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (230 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): KostovicovaDenisa; Bojicic-DzelilovicVesna
• Disciplina: 320.1
• Soggetti: Failed states; Nation-building; Postwar reconstruction; Democratization
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; List of Abbreviations; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: State Weakening and Globalization; Part I Capacity Approaches; 1 Understanding Leviathan's Malaise: Stateness and the Crisisof Governability in Post-communist Polities; 2 Post-Soviet State Weakness: Legacies of Informal Networks and Troubled Transitions; 3 Informal Institutions of Political Participation in the Serbian Security Sector; Part II Historical Approaches; 4 Afghanistan: The Patrimonial Trap and the Dream of Institution-Building; 5 The Durability of Weak States in the Middle East6 State Failure and State-building in Russia, 1992-2004; Part III Policy Approaches; 7 Foreign Intervention and State Reconstruction: Bosnian Fragility in Comparative Perspective; 8 State Formation and Persistent Hybridity in Africa: Reflections from a Development and Conflict Perspective; Part IV ; Implications; 9 Measuring State Failure/Weakness: Do the Balkan Cases Fit?; 10 Democratization, Stateness, and the Western Response to Countries in Crisis After 1989; 11 The Reconstruction of Political Authority in a Global Era; Conclusion: Persistent State Weakness and Issues for Research, Methodology and PolicyIndex
• Sommario/riassunto: Persistent State Weakness in the Global Age addresses the question of why state weakness in the global era persists. It debunks a common assumption that state weakness is a stop-gap on the path to state failure and state collapse. Informed by a globalization perspective, the book shows how state weakness is frequently self-reproducing and functional.