Persistent State Weakness in the Global Age

Denisa Kostovicova, Lecturer in Global Politics, Government Department and Research Fellow, Centre for the Study of Global Governance, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. Vesna Bojicic-Dzelilovic, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for the Study of Global Governance, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK.

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.

Introduction State Weakening and Globalization, Denisa Kostovicova, Vesna Bojicic-Dzelilovic; Part I Capacity Approaches; Chapter 1 Understanding Leviathan¿s Malaise: Stateness and the Crisis of Governability in Post-communist Polities, Venelin I. Ganev; Chapter 2 Post-Soviet State Weakness: Legacies of Informal Networks and Troubled Transitions, Stacy Closson; Chapter 3 Informal Institutions of Political Part icipation in the Serbian Security Sector, Timothy Edmunds; Part II Historical Approaches; Chapter 4 Afghanistan: The Patrimonial Trap and the Dream of Institution-Building, Antonio Giustozzi; Chapter 5 The Durability of Weak States in the Middle East, Kristian Coates Ulrichsen; Chapter 6 State Failure and State-building in Russia, 1992¿2004, Vadim Volkov; Part III Policy Approaches; Chapter 7 Foreign Intervention and state Reconstruction: Bosnian Fragility in Comparative Perspective, Marie-Joëlle Zahar; Chapter 8 State Formation and Persistent Hybridity in Africa: Reflections from a Development and Conflict Perspective, Tobias Debiel, Birgit Pech; Part IV Implications; Chapter 9 Measuring State Failure/Weakness: Do the Balkan Cases Fit?, Susan L. Woodward; Chapter 10 Democratization, Stateness, and the Western Response to Countries in Crisis After 1989, Daniel Lambach; Chapter 11 The Reconstruction of Political Authority in a Global Era, Mary Kaldor; conclusion Persistent State Weakness and Issues for Research, Methodology and Policy, Denisa Kostovicova, Vesna Bojicic-Dzelilovic;