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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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Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
General Editors
KathleenThelen MassachusettsInstituteofTechnology
ErikWibbels DukeUniversity
Associate Editors
RobertH.Bates HarvardUniversity
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StephenHanson TheCollegeofWilliamandMary
TorbenIversen HarvardUniversity
StathisKalyvas YaleUniversity
PeterLange DukeUniversity
Margaret Levi Center for the Advanced Study of the Behavioral Sciences,
StanfordUniversity
HelenMilner PrincetonUniversity
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SusanStokes YaleUniversity
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Warlords and Coalition Politics in
Post-Soviet States
JESSE DRISCOLL
UniversityofCalifornia,SanDiego
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1. Warlordism–Georgia(Republic) 2. Warlordism–Tajikistan. 3. Coalition
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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
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