Beyond state crisis? : postcolonial Africa and post-Soviet Eurasia in comparative perspective

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.