Sources of State Weakness and Collapse: Mahalla-State Relations in Uzbekistan and Tajikistan (Research Brief)
September 30, 2003
The first question motivating my research was the following: why did Tajikistan’s state suddenly collapse into a five-year civil war (1992-97) while its counterpart in Uzbekistan has experienced gradual decline. What explains the varying rates and patterns of state breakdown in these seemingly very similar cases?
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Lawrence P. Markowitz, of the University of Wisconsin at Madison, was a 2002-03 Individual Advanced Research Opportunities (IARO) fellow.
