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(cid:105) (cid:105) (cid:105) (cid:105) WarlordsandCoalitionPoliticsinPost-SovietStates ThebreakupoftheUSSRwasunexpectedandunexpectedlypeaceful.Though a third of the new states fell prey to violent civil conflict, anarchy on the post-Soviet periphery, when it occurred, was quickly cauterized. This book arguesthatthisoutcomehadnothingtodowithsecurityguaranteesbyRussia ortheUnitedNationsandeverythingtodowithlocalinnovationbyruthless warlords, who competed and colluded in a high-risk coalition formation game. Drawing on a structured comparison of Georgian and Tajik militia members, the book combines rich comparative data with formal modeling, treatingthepost-Sovietspaceasanextraordinarylaboratorytoobservethe limitsofgreatpowers’effortstoshapedomesticinstitutionsinweakstates. Jesse Driscoll is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California, San Diego. He was an OCV (Order, Conflict, and Violence) Fellow at Yale University and a GAGE (Governing America in a Global Era) Fellow at the UniversityofVirginia,andmostrecentlyamemberoftheHarvardAcademy for International and Area Studies from 2009 to 2013. His work has been published in the Journal of Conflict Resolution, Research and Politics, and theJournalofSurveyStatisticsandMethodology. 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Ansell, From the Ballot to the Blackboard: The Redistributive PoliticalEconomyofEducation LeonardoR.Arriola,Multi-EthnicCoalitionsinAfrica:BusinessFinancing ofOppositionElectionCampaigns DavidAusten-Smith,JeffryA.Frieden,MiriamA.Golden,KarlOveMoene, and Adam Przeworski, eds., Selected Works of Michael Wallerstein: ThePoliticalEconomyofInequality,Unions,andSocialDemocracy Andy Baker,The Market and the Masses in Latin America: Policy Reform andConsumptioninLiberalizingEconomies LisaBaldez,WhyWomenProtest:Women’sMovementsinChile Stefano Bartolini, The Political Mobilization of the European Left, 1860–1980:TheClassCleavage RobertBates,WhenThingsFellApart:StateFailureinLate-CenturyAfrica Mark Beissinger, Nationalist Mobilization and the Collapse of the Soviet State NancyBermeo,ed.,UnemploymentintheNewEurope CarlesBoix,DemocracyandRedistribution (continuedaftertheIndex) (cid:105) (cid:105) (cid:105) (cid:105) (cid:105) (cid:105) (cid:105) (cid:105) (cid:105) (cid:105) (cid:105) (cid:105) (cid:105) (cid:105) (cid:105) (cid:105) Warlords and Coalition Politics in Post-Soviet States JESSE DRISCOLL UniversityofCalifornia,SanDiego (cid:105) (cid:105) (cid:105) (cid:105) (cid:105) (cid:105) (cid:105) (cid:105) 32AvenueoftheAmericas,NewYork,ny10013-2473,usa CambridgeUniversityPressispartoftheUniversityofCambridge. ItfurtherstheUniversity’smissionbydisseminatingknowledgeinthepursuitof education,learning,andresearchatthehighestinternationallevelsofexcellence. www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9781107063358 ©JesseDriscoll2015 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished2015 PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica AcatalogrecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. LibraryofCongressCataloginginPublicationdata Driscoll,Jesse,1978– Warlordsandcoalitionpoliticsinpost-Sovietstates/JesseDriscoll. pages cm.–(Cambridgestudiesincomparativepolitics) isbn978-1-107-06335-8(hardback) 1. Warlordism–Georgia(Republic) 2. Warlordism–Tajikistan. 3. Coalition governments–Georgia(Republic) 4. Coalitiongovernments–Tajikistan. 5. Georgia (Republic)–Politicsandgovernment–1991– 6. Tajikistan–Politicsand government–1991– I. Title. jz1317.2.d75 2015 320.94758–dc23 2014047366 isbn978-1-107-06335-8Hardback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceoraccuracyof urlsforexternalorthird-partyInternetWebsitesreferredtointhispublication anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuchWebsitesis,orwillremain, accurateorappropriate. (cid:105) (cid:105) (cid:105) (cid:105) (cid:105) (cid:105) (cid:105) (cid:105) I get it. I know what you want. I understand. You want to make up a list, on your computer, of all our bad men. ‘Terrorists.’ You want to cross names off the list when they were killed or jailed. To see that we Tajiks can take care of our own.But we can.We did.You’ll see. Yuri,Dushanbe,2007 (cid:105) (cid:105) (cid:105) (cid:105) (cid:105) (cid:105) (cid:105) (cid:105) (cid:105) (cid:105) (cid:105) (cid:105)
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