Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- List of Abbreviations -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: State Weakening and Globalization -- Part I Capacity Approaches -- 1 Understanding Leviathan's Malaise: Stateness and the Crisisof Governability in Post-communist Polities -- 2 Post-Soviet State Weakness: Legacies of Informal Networks and Troubled Transitions -- 3 Informal Institutions of Political Participation in the Serbian Security Sector -- Part II Historical Approaches -- 4 Afghanistan: The Patrimonial Trap and the Dream of Institution-Building -- 5 The Durability of Weak States in the Middle East -- 6 State Failure and State-building in Russia, 1992-2004 -- Part III Policy Approaches -- 7 Foreign Intervention and State Reconstruction: Bosnian Fragility in Comparative Perspective -- 8 State Formation and Persistent Hybridity in Africa: Reflections from a Development and Conflict Perspective -- Part IV Implications -- 9 Measuring State Failure/Weakness: Do the Balkan Cases Fit? -- 10 Democratization, Stateness, and the Western Response to Countries in Crisis After 1989 -- 11 The Reconstruction of Political Authority in a Global Era -- Conclusion: Persistent State Weakness and Issues for Research, Methodology and Policy -- Index.