TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kostovicova,Denisa
AU  - Bojicic-Dzelilovic,Vesna
TI  - Persistent state weakness in the global age
SN  - 9780754698739
AV  - JC328.7 .P47 2009eb
U1  - 320.1 22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Farnham, England, Burlington, VT
PB  - Ashgate
KW  - Failed states
KW  - Nation-building
KW  - Postwar reconstruction
KW  - Democratization
KW  - États défaillants
KW  - Reconstruction d'une nation
KW  - Reconstruction d'après-guerre
KW  - Démocratisation
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - Government
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - National
KW  - Reference
KW  - Essays
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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-Building
N2  - 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
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