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• Winner of Honorable Mention, 2014 Ed A. Hewett Book Prize (A.

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<p> Drawing on a wealth of original research on the hidden political economy of security institutions, State Erosion explores why Central Asian states continue to defy outside predictions of imminent collapse. Lawrence P. Markowitz's clever account of how state security services use resource endowments for their unofficial entrepreneurial activities is a major contribution to the study of Central Asian political development and offers helpful guidance to scholars and policymakers about the determinants of state fragility and survival worldwide. Alexander Cooley, Barnard College, Columbia University, author of Base Politics: Democratic Change and the U.S. Military Overseas

Drawing on a wealth of original research on the hidden political economy of security institutions, State Erosion explores why Central Asian states continue to defy outside predictions of imminent collapse. Lawrence P. Markowitz's clever account of how state security services use resource endowments for their unofficial entrepreneurial activities is a major contribution to the study of Central Asian political development and offers helpful guidance to scholars and policymakers about the determinants of state fragility and survival worldwide. Alexander Cooley, Barnard College, Columbia University, author of Base Politics: Democratic Change and the U.S. Military Overseas

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Lawrence P. Markowitz is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Rowan University.

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