Contents
Preface
CHAPTER 1. The Logics of State Weakness in Eurasia: An Introduction
Part One. Logics of Consolidation
CHAPTER 2. Consolidating a Weak State after Civil War: A Tajik Fable
CHAPTER 3. Power, Peripheries, and Pyramids in Post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan and Georgia
CHAPTER 4. Organized Crime and the State in Post-Soviet Eurasia
CHAPTER 5. License to Seek Rents: “Corruption” as a Method of Post-Soviet Governance
CHAPTER 6. Punishment and State-Building in Post-Soviet Georgia
Part Two. Logics of Internationalization
CHAPTER 7. The International State: Comparing Statehood in Central Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa
CHAPTER 8. The Contested State in Post-Soviet Armenia
CHAPTER 9. The Post-Soviet Myth of the Strong State in Russia
CHAPTER 10. Adjudicating Sovereignty: From State Weakness to Improvisation
Part Three. Logics of Performance
CHAPTER 11. The Taming ofthe Sacred: How “Weak” State Structures Regulate Religion in Uzbekistan
CHAPTER 12. Cracks in the System: What the Zhanaozen Incident Says about Regime Performance in Kazakhstan
CHAPTER 13. Anarchy, the State, and Ukraine
CHAPTER 14. The Ashar-State: Communal Commitment and State Elicitation in Rural Kyrgyzstan
CHAPTER 15. Beyond the Neo-Weberian Yardstick?: Thinking of the State in Multiple Registers
Notes
References
Contributors
Index