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State erosion : unlootable resources and unruly elites in Central Asia
- Title
- State erosion : unlootable resources and unruly elites in Central Asia / Lawrence P. Markowitz.
- Author
- Markowitz, Lawrence P., 1970-
- Publication
- Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, 2013.
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Details
- Description
- xv, 195 pages : maps; 25 cm
- Summary
- "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 constructed one of the largest state security apparatuses in post-Soviet Eurasia--to advance a theory of state failure focused on unlootable resources, rent seeking, and unruly elites. In Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and other countries with low capital mobility--where resources cannot be extracted, concealed, or transported to market without state intervention--local elites may control resources, but they depend on patrons to convert their resources into rents. Markowitz argues that different rent-seeking opportunities either promote the cooptation of local elites to the regime or incite competition over rents, which in turn lead to either cohesion or fragmentation. Markowitz distinguishes between weak states and failed states, challenges the assumption that state failure in a country begins at the center and radiates outward, and expands the "resource curse" argument to include cash crop economies, where mechanisms of state failure differ from those involved in fossil fuels and minerals"--
- Subjects
- Natural resources > Political aspects > Tajikistan
- Failed states > Tajikistan
- Natural resources > Political aspects > Uzbekistan
- Elite (Social sciences) > Political activity > Tajikistan
- Uzbekistan > Politics and government > 1991-
- Elite (Social sciences) > Political activity > Uzbekistan
- Tajikistan > Politics and government > 1991-
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Rethinking the resource curse -- Resources and rents under Soviet rule -- Pathways to failure : Tajikistan and Uzbekistan -- Tajikistan's fractious state -- Coercion and rent-seeking in Uzbekistan -- Weak and failed states in comparative perspective.
- Call Number
- JFE 14-992
- ISBN
- 9780801451874 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0801451876 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2013018864
- 40022949461
- OCLC
- 843037564
- Author
- Markowitz, Lawrence P., 1970- author.
- Title
- State erosion : unlootable resources and unruly elites in Central Asia / Lawrence P. Markowitz.
- Publisher
- Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, 2013.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40022949461
- Research Call Number
- JFE 14-992