Title: Paying the Price of Failure: Reconstructing Failed and Collapsed States in Africa and Central Asia
Abstract: Beissinger, Mark R. and Crawford Young, eds. Beyond State Crisis? Postcolonial Africa and Post-Soviet Eurasia in Comparative Perspective (Washington, D.C.: The Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2002).Herbst, Jeffrey. States and Power in Africa: Comparative Lessons in Authority and Control (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000).Luong, Pauline Jones. Institutional Change and Political Continuity in Post Soviet Central Asia (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002).Reno, William. Warlord Politics and African States (Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc., 1998).Rotberg, Robert I., ed. State Failure and State Weakness in a Time of Terror (Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2003).Rotberg, Robert I., ed. When States Fail: Causes and Consequences (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004).John R. Heilbrunn is Assistant Professor in the Graduate Program in International Political Economy of Resources at the Colorado School of Mines. Heilbrunn has publications on democracy in Africa, corruption in France, and is currently writing a book analyzing institutional change among Africa's petroleum economies. The author gratefully acknowledges helpful comments from Vincent Foucher, Phil Keefer, Nic van de Walle, and the anonymous reviewers of Perspectives on Politics.
Publication Year: 2006
Publication Date: 2006-02-24
Language: en
Type: article
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