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Exiting Anarchy: Militia Politics after the Post-Soviet Wars

Jesse Driscoll, Academy Scholar, Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies, Harvard University, and Assistant Professor of Political Science, School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California at San Diego discussed his forthcoming book on how political order emerged in Tajikistan and Georgia after the violent chaos of the Soviet collapse.

Date & Time

Thursday
Mar. 21, 2013
4:00pm – 5:30pm ET

Location

5th Floor, Woodrow Wilson Center
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Spotlight on Central Eurasia Series //

Jesse Driscoll, Academy Scholar, Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies, Harvard University, and Assistant Professor of Political Science, School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California at San Diego discussed his forthcoming book on how political order emerged in Tajikistan and Georgia after the violent chaos of the Soviet collapse. Despite enormous structural weaknesses—the absence of a national army, impassable mountains, ethnic cleavages, poverty, and foreign-backed insurgencies—stable regimes consolidated with unusual speed. Both states were recipients of substantial bilateral and multilateral assistance in "state-building" during the decade-long study period. Driscoll's revisionist history of civil war settlements is one of how local actors coordinate to hoodwink foreign donor communities, building the stable state structures that endure today.

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Jesse Driscoll

Academy Scholar, Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies, Harvard University, and Assistant Professor of Political Science, School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California at San Diego
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Kennan Institute

The Kennan Institute is the premier US center for advanced research on Russia and Eurasia and the oldest and largest regional program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. The Kennan Institute is committed to improving American understanding of Russia, Ukraine, Central Asia, the Caucasus, and the surrounding region though research and exchange.  Read more

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