cam a22 4500 551387300 CHVBK 20201014105454.0 m d cr |n |||||||| 130508s2013 nyub sb 001 0 eng d 2013018864 978-0-8014-5187-4 (cloth : alk. paper) (SERSOL)ssj0001047724 (WaSeSS)ssj0001047724 NIC/DLC eng NIC DLC WaSeSS rda DK928.8657 .M37 2013 958/.042 23 Markowitz Lawrence P. 1970- author State erosion unlootable resources and unruly elites in Central Asia Lawrence P. Markowitz Ithaca, New York Cornell University Press 2013 1 online resource (xv, 195 pages) maps text txt rdacontent/eng computer c rdamedia/eng online resource cr rdacarrier/eng Includes bibliographical references and index. 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. Lizenzbedingungen können den Zugang einschränken. License restrictions may limit access. "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"-- Failed states Tajikistan Natural resources Political aspects Tajikistan Natural resources Political aspects Uzbekistan Elite (Social sciences) Political activity Tajikistan Elite (Social sciences) Political activity Uzbekistan Tajikistan Politics and government 1991- Uzbekistan Politics and government 1991- https://www.degruyter.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=9780801469466 Uni Basel: Volltext https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/unibern/detail.action?docID=3138530 Uni Bern: Volltext https://www.degruyter.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=9780801469466 Uni Bern: Volltext BK020053 XK020053 XK020000 De Gruyter PDA SSH eBooks De Gruyter PDA STM eBooks E-Books von 360MarcUpdates Ebook Central All Subscribed Titles PDA Package: All eBook Content, incl. OWV/AV PDA5EBK IDSBB A145 A145 145VT IDSBB B405 B405 405VT NELB4052004 IDSBB B405 B405 405VT NELB4052004 IDSBB 100 1- Markowitz Lawrence P. 1970- author IDSBB 856 40 https://www.degruyter.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=9780801469466 Uni Basel: Volltext IDSBB 856 40 https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/unibern/detail.action?docID=3138530 Uni Bern: Volltext IDSBB 856 40 https://www.degruyter.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=9780801469466 Uni Bern: Volltext SWISSBIB 312986548