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  • State Erosion

    Unlootable Resources and Unruly Elites in Central Asia

    by Lawrence P. Markowitz ...
    State 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 ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

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    Today a billion people, including about 340 million of the world's extreme poor, are estimated to live in 'fragile states'. This group of low-income countries are often trapped in cycles of conflict and poverty, which make them acutely vulnerable to a range of shocks and crises.This engaging book defines and clarifies what we mean by fragile states, examining their characteristics in relation to ... Read more

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  • The Routledge Handbook of Ethnic Conflict

    Edited by Karl Cordell, Stefan Wolff ...
    A definitive global survey of the interaction of ethnicity, nationalism and politics, this handbook blends rigorous theoretically grounded analysis with empirically rich illustrations to provide a state-of-the-art overview of the contemporary debates on one of the most pervasive international security challenges today. Fully updated for the second edition, the book includes a new section which ... Read more

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  • The Sources of Social Power: Volume 4, Globalizations, 1945–2011

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  • The Dilemmas of Statebuilding

    Confronting the contradictions of postwar peace operations

    Edited by Roland Paris, Timothy D. Sisk ...
    Series series Security and Governance
    This book explores the contradictions that emerge in international statebuilding efforts in war-torn societies.Since the end of the Cold War, more than 20 major peace operations have been deployed to countries emerging from internal conflicts. This book argues that international efforts to construct effective, legitimate governmental structures in these countries are necessary but fraught with ... Read more

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  • The New Continentalism: Energy and Twenty-First-Century Eurasian Geopolitics

    by Kent E. Calder, PhD - History ...
    In this groundbreaking book Kent E. Calder argues that a new transnational configuration is emerging in Asia, driven by economic growth, rising energy demand, and the erosion of longstanding geopolitical divisions. What Calder calls the New Silk Road—with a strengthening multi-faceted relationship between East Asia and the Middle East at its core—could eventually emerge as one of the world's most ... Read more

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  • The Political Economy of Non-Western Migration Regimes

    Central Asian Migrant Workers in Russia and Turkey

    by Rustamjon Urinboyev, Sherzod Eraliev ...
    Series series International Political Economy Series
    This open access book contributes new theoretical and comparative insights on migrant agency, undocumentedness and informality in non-Western, non-democratic migration regimes. The book is conceived as a critical reflection on the contemporary migration regime scholarship, and, more generally, on comparative migration studies, which primarily focus on migrants’ experiences and immigration policies ... Read more

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  • Institutional Reform in Central Asia

    Politico-Economic Challenges

    Edited by Joachim Ahrens, Herman W. Hoen ...
    Series series Central Asian Studies
    The countries of Central Asia are increasingly the focus of intense international attention due to their geopolitical and economic importance as well as their unsettled transition processes. The region faced enormous challenges when the Soviet Union disintegrated, and this book focuses on the reforms of the institutional environment that have been largely neglected.Through an interdisciplinary ... Read more

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  • International Multiparty Mediation and Conflict Management

    Challenges of Cooperation and Coordination

    by Sinisa Vukovic ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Security and Conflict Management
    This volume aims to provide a detailed explanation of the effects of cooperation and coordination on international multiparty mediation in conflicts.Contemporary scholarship stresses that the crucial ingredients for a successful multiparty mediation are ‘consistency in interests’ and ‘cooperation and coordination’ between mediators. This book seeks to supplement that understanding by investigating ... Read more

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    China, Russia, and the United States' Pursuit of Relevancy and Power

    by Gregory O. Hall ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics
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  • Democracy Building and Civil Society in Post-Soviet Armenia

    by Armine Ishkanian ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series
    This volume considers the challenges of democracy building in post-Soviet Armenia, and the role of civil society in that process.It argues that, contrary to the expectations of Western aid donors, who promoted civil society on the assumption that democratization would follow from the establishment of civil society, democratic regimes have failed to materialize, and, moreover, a backlash has ... Read more

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  • Coloured Revolutions and Authoritarian Reactions

    Edited by Evgeny Finkel, Yitzhak M. Brudny ...
    Series series Democratization Special Issues
    Between 2000 and 2005, colour revolutions swept away authoritarian and semi-authoritarian regimes in Serbia, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan and Ukraine. Yet, after these initial successes, attempts to replicate the strategies failed to produce regime change elsewhere in the region. The book argues that students of democratization and democracy promotion should study not only the successful colour revolutions ... Read more

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