03649nam 2200733Ia 450 991081729800332120240505164511.01-315-60009-91-317-08206-01-317-08205-21-282-34453-697866123445340-7546-9873-4(CKB)1000000000806824(EBL)476282(OCoLC)498507118(SSID)ssj0000305791(PQKBManifestationID)11226520(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000305791(PQKBWorkID)10293373(PQKB)10358149(Au-PeEL)EBL476282(CaPaEBR)ebr10343257(CaONFJC)MIL922501(Au-PeEL)EBL5293352(CaONFJC)MIL234453(MiAaPQ)EBC476282(MiAaPQ)EBC5293352(EXLCZ)99100000000080682420090619d2009 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrPersistent state weakness in the global age /edited by Denisa Kostovicova and Vesna Bojicic-Dzelilovic1st ed.Burlington, VT Ashgate20091 online resource (230 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-7546-7612-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.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-Building5 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 EraConclusion: Persistent State Weakness and Issues for Research, Methodology and PolicyIndexPersistent 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.Failed statesNation-buildingPostwar reconstructionDemocratizationFailed states.Nation-building.Postwar reconstruction.Democratization.320.1Kostovicova Denisa1096948Bojicic-Dzelilovic Vesna1705401MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910817298003321Persistent state weakness in the global age4092050UNINA