State ErosionState failure is a central challenge to international peace and security in the postCold War era. Yet theorizing on the causes of state failure remains surprisingly limited. In State Erosion, Lawrence P. Markowitz draws on his extensive fieldwork in two Central Asian republicsTajikistan, where state institutions fragmented into a five year civil war from 1992 through 1997, and Uzbekistan, which constructed one of the largest state security apparatuses