LEADER 04600nam 2200745 450 001 9910819942403321 005 20230126211717.0 010 $a0-8014-6945-7 010 $a0-8014-6946-5 024 7 $a10.7591/9780801469466 035 $a(CKB)3710000000054812 035 $a(OCoLC)863595845 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10787185 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001047724 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11586716 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001047724 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11159588 035 $a(PQKB)10072218 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001504904 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3138530 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse28851 035 $a(DE-B1597)478308 035 $a(OCoLC)979756235 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780801469466 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3138530 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10787185 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL683558 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000054812 100 $a20131109d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aState erosion $eunlootable resources and unruly elites in Central Asia /$fLawrence P. Markowitz 210 1$aIthaca, New York ;$aNew York :$cCornell University Press,$d2013. 210 4$dİ2013 215 $a1 online resource (214 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a1-322-52276-6 311 0 $a0-8014-5187-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tList of Figures, Tables, and Maps --$tPreface and Acknowledgments --$tList of Abbreviations --$tIntroduction --$t1. Rethinking the Resource Curse --$t2. Resources and Rents under Soviet Rule --$t3. Pathways to Failure: Tajikistan and Uzbekistan --$t4. Tajikistan's Fractious State --$t5. Coercion and Rent-Seeking in Uzbekistan --$t6. Weak and Failed States in Comparative Perspective --$tConclusion --$tAppendix --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $aState failure is a central challenge to international peace and security in the post-Cold War era. Yet theorizing on the causes of state failure remains surprisingly limited. In State Erosion, Lawrence P. Markowitz draws on his extensive fieldwork in two Central Asian republics-Tajikistan, where state institutions fragmented into a five-year civil war from 1992 through 1997, and Uzbekistan, which constructed one of the largest state security apparatuses in post-Soviet Eurasia-to advance a theory of state failure focused on unlootable resources, rent seeking, and unruly elites. In Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and other countries with low capital mobility-where resources cannot be extracted, concealed, or transported to market without state intervention-local elites may control resources, but they depend on patrons to convert their resources into rents. Markowitz argues that different rent-seeking opportunities either promote the cooptation of local elites to the regime or incite competition over rents, which in turn lead to either cohesion or fragmentation. Markowitz distinguishes between weak states and failed states, challenges the assumption that state failure in a country begins at the center and radiates outward, and expands the "resource curse" argument to include cash crop economies, where mechanisms of state failure differ from those involved in fossil fuels and minerals. Broadening his argument to weak states in the Middle East (Syria and Lebanon) and Africa (Zimbabwe and Somalia), Markowitz shows how the distinct patterns of state failure in weak states with immobile capital can inform our understanding of regime change, ethnic violence, and security sector reform. 606 $aFailed states$zTajikistan 606 $aNatural resources$xPolitical aspects$zTajikistan 606 $aNatural resources$xPolitical aspects$zUzbekistan 606 $aElite (Social sciences)$xPolitical activity$zTajikistan 606 $aElite (Social sciences)$xPolitical activity$zUzbekistan 607 $aTajikistan$xPolitics and government$y1991- 607 $aUzbekistan$xPolitics and government$y1991- 615 0$aFailed states 615 0$aNatural resources$xPolitical aspects 615 0$aNatural resources$xPolitical aspects 615 0$aElite (Social sciences)$xPolitical activity 615 0$aElite (Social sciences)$xPolitical activity 676 $a958/.042 700 $aMarkowitz$b Lawrence P$01691554 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910819942403321 996 $aState erosion$94068028 997 $aUNINA