Refugees in International Relations
Alexander Betts, Gil Loescher
Oxford University Press (2010)

Neotrusteeship and the Problem of Weak States
James D. Fearon, David Laitin
International Security vol. 28, 4 (2004)

War in Chechnya as a Paradigm of Russian State-Building Under Putin, The
Gail W. Lapidus
Post-Soviet Affairs vol. 20, 1 (2004)

Civil Wars and State-Building in Africa and Eurasia
Stephen J. Stedman, David Holloway
Woodrow Wilson Center Press, in "Beyond State Crisis: Postcolonial Africa and Post-Soviet Eurasia in Comparative Perspective" (2002)

State-Building and State Breakdown in Russia
Gail W. Lapidus, Archie Brown
Oxford University Press in "Contemporary Russian Politics: A Reader" (2001)

Assymetrical Federalism and Russian State-Building
Gail W. Lapidus
Post-Soviet Affairs (formerly Soviet Economy). Article republished in "Federalism in Russia" by Kazan Inst of Federalism, Tatarstan, 2002 vol. 15 (1999)

Nationalism, Regionalism and Federalism: Dilemmas of State-Building in Post-Communist Russia
Gail W. Lapidus, Edward W. Walker
Westview Press in "The New Russia: Troubled Transformation" (1994)

From Union to Commonwealth: Nationalism and Separatism in the Soviet Republics
Gail W. Lapidus, Victor Zaslavsky, Philip Goldman
Cambridge University Press (1992)