Effective state in postcolonial Africa and post-Soviet Eurasia : hopeless chimera or possible dream? / Mark R. Beissinger and Crawford Young. Convergence to crisis : pre-independence state legacies and post-independence state breakdown in Africa and Eurasia / Mark R. Beissinger and Crawford Young -- At the edge of the world : boundaries, territoriality, and sovereignty in Africa / Achille Mbembe -- Who is strong when the state is weak? Violent entrepreneurship in Russia's emerging markets / Vadim Volkov -- Mafiya troubles, warlord crises / William Reno -- Weak state and private armies / Charles H. Fairbanks, Jr. -- Civil wars and state-building in Africa and Eurasia / David Holloway and Stephen John Stedman -- Effects of state crisis on African interstate relations (and comparisons with Post-Soviet Eurasia) / Donald Rothchild -- Russia : unconsolidated democracy, creeping authoritarianism, or unresolved stagnation? / Lilia Shevotsa -- War, state-making, and democracy in Africa / Richard Joseph -- East goes south : international aid and the production of convergence in Africa and Eurasia / Peter J. Stavrakis -- Economic reform and the discourse of democracy in Africa : resolving the contradictions / Peter M. Lewis -- Ethnicity and state-building : accommodating ethnic differences in post-Soviet Eurasia / Gail W. Lapidus -- Beyond cultural domination : institutionalizing equity in the African state / Francis M. Deng -- Women and political change in post-Soviet Eurasia and postcolonial Africa / Aili Mari Tripp -- Putting the state back together in post-Soviet Georgia / Ghia Nodia -- After the fall : state rehabilitation in Uganda / Crawford Young -- Effective state in postcolonial Africa and post-Soviet Eurasia : hopeless chimera or possible dream? / Mark R. Beissinger and Crawford Young.
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