Using process-oriented approaches, the contributing authors explore what happens when
conscious efforts at statebuilding 'meet'social contexts, and are transformed into daily …

This article discusses the use of informal practices in negotiating welfare with state
institutions in Azerbaijan. One of the effects of transition to market economies in the post …

I argue that recent attempts to measure corruption have made significant progress. Yet a
comprehensive conceptualization of systemic corruption is still lacking, obstructing efforts to …

This book project emerged from conversations between the editors during the Central
Eurasian Studies Society conference at Harvard University in fall 2003. We discussed the …

This article investigates how patron–client relations impact the practice of citizens' political
rights, including the rights of free and voluntary suffrage and party membership, in Armenia …

Taking the case of Georgia, this article considers the role of politico-economic networks in
weakening the energy sector in a post-Soviet state. It is hypothesised that incentives, from …

By the mid-1990s, Georgia had lost de facto jurisdiction in most of Abkhazia and South
Ossetia. Over time, informal trade originating during wartime burgeoned into networks of …

This chapter compares regime development in two most similar cases. Armenia and Georgia
are both small states in the same region, with similar levels of economic development that …

This study expands the understanding of the role of informality in post-socialist professions
by examining the use of informal practices by an under-researched professional group of …

This thesis is concerned with the persistent weakness of the post-Soviet states and it
examines the implications of state weakness for inter-state relations. Applying concepts from …