Beyond State Crisis?: Postcolonial Africa and Post-Soviet Eurasia in Comparative Perspective

Abstract

Part I Overview and Retrospective: 1. Introduction - Comparing State Crises Across Two Continents, Mark Beissinger and Crawford Young 2. Convergence to Crisis - Pre-Independence State Legacies and Post-Independence State Breakdown in Africa and Eurasia, Mark Beissinger and Crawford Young. Part II Sovereignty, Violence, and War: 3. At the Edge of the World - Boundaries, Territoriality, and Sovereignty, Achille Mbembe 4. Who is Strong When the State is Weak? - Violent Entreprenuership in Russia's Emerging Markets, Vadim Volkov 5. Mafiya Trouble, Warlord Crises, Will Reno 6. Weak State and Private Armies, Charles Fairbanks 7. Civil Wars and State-Building in Africa and Eurasia, David Holloway and Stephen Stedman 8. The Effects of Interstate Crisis on African Interstate Relations (With Eurasian Comparisons), Donald Rothchild. Part III Democratization and Political Economy: 9. Russia - Unconsolidated Democracy, Creeping Authoritarianism, or Unresolved Stagnation? Lilia Shevtsova 10. War, State Making, and Democratization in Africa, Richard Joseph 11. The East Goes South - International Aid and the Production of Convergence in Africa and Eurasia, Peter J. Stavrakis 12. Economic Reform and the Discourse of Democracy in Africa - Resolving the Contradictions, Peter M. Lewis. Part IV State and Society: 13. Accomodating Ethnic Differences in Post-Soviet Eurasia, Gail W. Lapidus 14. Beyond Cultural Domination - Institutionalizing Equity in the African State, Francis M. Deng 15. Women and Political Change in Eurasia and Africa, Aili Mari Tripp. Part V Beyond State Crisis?: 16. Putting the State Back Together in Post-Soviet Georgia, Ghia Nodia 17. After the Fall - State Rehabilitation in Uganda, Crawford Young 18. Transcending the Crisis of the State in Africa and Post-Soviet Eurasia - Hopeless Chimera or Possible Dream?, Mark Beissinger and Crawford Young.