Title:
Beyond state crisis? : postcolonial Africa and post-Soviet Eurasia in comparative perspective
Author:
Young, Crawford, 1931-
ISBN:
9781930365070
9781930365087
Publication Information:
Washington, D.C. : Woodrow Wilson Center Press ; Baltimore : Distributed by Johns Hopkins University Press, c2002.
Physical Description:
xv, 514 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents:
Comparing state crises across two continents / 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 -- Ma<f"galig">ya 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 -- The effects of state crisis on African interst [sic].