Privatizing the State

Beatrice Hibou is a researcher with the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) at the Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches Internationales (CERI) in Paris. She is the coauthor of The Criminalization of the State in Africa.

• Introduction: From Privatising the Economy to Privatising the State, by Beatrice Hibou Part I. Privatisation of State Enterprises From Corruption to Regulation: Post-Communist Enterprises in Poland, by Francois Bafoil Shenyang: Privatisation in the Vanguard of Socialism, by Antoine Kemen Part II: Privatisation of International Relations Privatisation of Sovereignty and the Survival of Weak States, by William Reno Non-Sovereign Power: New Regulatory Authorities and Change in the Lake Chad Basin States, by Janet Roitman Fictitious Privatisation: Relations with Taiwan, by Francoise Mengin Part III: Political Transition and Privatisation of the State Is China Becoming an Ordinary State?, by Jean-Louis Rocca Privatisation and Political Change in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia, by Gilles Favarel-Garrigues The Pastoral Government Idea and Privatisation of the State in Indonesia, by Romain Bertrand Postface: Tenants of the House: Privatising the State and Building the Political Sphere, by Yves Chevrier

Privatizing the State is an exciting book that will appeal to readers across many disciplines and to specialists on Africa, the Middle East, East and Southeast Asia, China, Russia, and Eastern Europe. The audience will include students in political economy, development economics, economic anthropology, critics of the IMF and the World Bank (including many from within those institutions), and almost anyone interested in making sense of the supposed 'failures' of neoliberal reform, the power attributed to the processes of globalization, or the current political and economic crises that appear to characterise so many regions of the world. -- Timothy Mitchell, New York University Likely to appeal to theoretical political scientists... Recommended Choice Profitable reading for scholars and graduate students. International Studies Review