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Author : Kofi Buenor Hadjor
Publisher : Africa World Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Africa
ISBN : 0865431507
Author : Arthur Gavshon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429725616
The great power rivalry surging across Africa today is a heritage of those European statesmen who a century ago in Berlin ruled straight lines on school atlases to carve up a continent-and whole nations with it-into tidy colonial compartments. With African states searching for a political identity in the post-colonial era, the superpowers are now j
Author : Peter Lewis,John Willis Harbeson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Crisis management in government
ISBN : 1626372292
¿Provides a lucid approach to assessing the factors that create vulnerabilities, or possibilities for resilience, in the face of crisis ... complemented by rich empirical country chapters and clear policy recommendations.¿ ¿Rachel Beatty Riedl, Northwestern University Although large-scale conflicts, political upheavals, and social violence are common problems throughout Africa, individual countries vary greatly in both their susceptibility to these crises and their capacities for responding effectively. What accounts for this variance? How do crises emerge, and how are they resolved? When are unexpected events most likely to spiral into crisis? Are there institutions and policies that can help to manage adverse shocks? The authors of Coping with Crisis in African States assess the capability for crisis management in countries across the continent, shedding new light on the sources of instability in the region, as well as on comparative questions of state capacity and resilience. Peter M. Lewis is associate professor and director of the African Studies Program at Johns Hopkins University¿s School of Advanced International Studies. John W. Harbeson is emeritus professor of political science at the City University of New York Graduate Center and the City College of New York.
Author : Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja
Publisher : Sapes Books
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105008890209
Author : Magnus Blomström,Mats Lundahl
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2002-01-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134864478
Highly topical with the severe famine again in Sub-Saharan Africa Authors have many previous publications and a lot of experience in this area Book is drawn from an international conference on the responses to crises in Africa, at Stockholm School of Economics, supported by the Swedish International Development Authority
Author : Catherine Scott
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786732101
How should failed states in Africa be understood? Catherine Scott here critically engages with the concept of state failure and provides an historical reinterpretation. She shows that, although the concept emerged in the context of the post-Cold War new world order, the phenomenon has been attendant throughout (and even before) the development of the Westphalian state system. Contemporary failed states, however, differ from their historical counterparts in one fundamental respect: they fail within their existing borders and continue to be recognised as something that they are not. This peculiarity derives from international norms instituted in the era of decolonisation, which resulted in the inviolability of state borders and the supposed universality of statehood. Scott argues that contemporary failed states are, in fact, failed post-colonies. Thus understood, state failure is less the failure of existing states and more the failed rooting and institutionalisation of imported and reified models of Western statehood. Drawing on insights from the histories of Uganda and Burundi, from pre-colonial polity formation to the present day, she explores why and how there have been failures to create effective and legitimate national states within the bounds of inherited colonial jurisdictions on much of the African continent.
Author : Tunde Zack-Williams,Diane Frost,Alex Thomson
Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2002-01-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105026114210
Thirteen chapters examine contemporary political and economic problems in Africa, analyzing causes and suggesting alternatives. Presented by editors from the U. of Central Lancashire (UK), the articles reject much of the self-serving explanations proffered by Western corporate elites and African autocrats for African problems, locating the root causes in lack of democracy at both national and international levels. Specific topics include international donors and civil society in Zimbabwe, implications for African export policies of misconceptions about the "world market," French foreign policy towards Africa, imperialism and Sub-Saharan Africa, and multinational peacekeeping operations in Africa. Distributed by Stylus. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Antoinette Handley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781108557832
Much of the time, when confronted with a crisis of national dimensions, businesses do exactly what we expect them to do: they look to their own survival. Occasionally, however, firms in some contexts go beyond this. Based on qualitative, country-based fieldwork in Eastern and Southern Africa, Antoinette Handley examines how African businesses can be key responders to wider social and political crises, often responding well in advance of the state. She reveals the surprising ways in which business responses can be focused, not on short-term profits, but instead on ways that assist society in resolving that crisis in the long term. Taking African businesses in Kenya, Uganda, Botswana and South Africa as case studies, this detailed exploration of the private sector response to crises, including HIV/AIDS and political violence crises, introduces the concept of relative business autonomy, exploring the conditions under which it can emerge and develop, when and how it may decline, and how it might contribute to a higher level of overall societal resilience.
Author : Colin Legum
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Africa, Northeast
ISBN : OCLC:1014897805
Author : Jeremiah I. Dibua
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0754642283
In this book, Jeremiah I. Dibua challenges prevailing notions of Africa's development crisis by drawing attention to the role of modernization as a way of understanding the nature and dynamics of the crisis, and how to overcome the problem of underdevelopment.
Author : Adekeye Adebajo
Publisher : Jacana Media
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781920196295
"This book is about the games that Great Powers play. Nearly half of all UN peacekeeping missions in the post-Cold War era have been in Africa, and the continent currently hosts the greatest number (and also the largest) of such missions in the world. Uniquely assessing five decades of UN peacekeeping in Africa, Adekeye Adebajo focuses on a series of questions: What accounts for the resurgence of UN peacekeeping efforts in Africa after the Cold War? What are the factors that have determined the success, or contributed to the failure, of the missions? Does the mandating of so many peacekeeping missions signify the failure of Africa's regional security organizations? And, crucially, how can a new division of labour be established between the UN and Africa's security organisations to more effectively manage conflicts on the continent? Adebajo's historically informed approach provides an in-depth analysis of the key domestic, regional, and external factors that shaped the outcomes of fifteen UN missions, offering critical lessons for future peacekeeping efforts in Africa and beyond." --
Author : Fouad Farhaoui
Publisher : International Strategic Research Organization (USAK)
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9786054030835
The crisis is an outgrowth of the colonial period which had strained and eventually torn the social fabrics of the region. French colonial policies regarding education, administration, an economics had contributed to a competitive and divisive atmosphere. Now, Mali suffers from widespread ethnic separatism. The socialist regime of newly-indepenent Mali failed to reconcile the alienated communities of the northern regions. The peoples of the south, too, were dissatisfied with their oppressive government–something which deepend the young country’s political crisis. This environment produced the so-called “Tuareg rebellion”. The fierce clashes in the early stages of the rebellion and the drought in Mali’s northern regions led to massive migrations of Tuaregs to neighbouring countries. Changes in the regional environment in the 1990s brought new dimensions to the crisis. The Algerian Civil War, the end to the war in Afghanistan, and the Libyan embargo precipitated the spread of terrorism, trafficking, the drug trade, and cross-border criminal networks. Collectively, these phenomena created a new constellation of power in northern Mali. The international economic crisis and the developments known as the “Arab Spring”, along with shifting geo-strategic dynamics in the Indian and Pacific Oceans, have pushed Africa into an arena for international disputes and rivalries. Mali has been one of the foremost countries to be affected. Transformations at the global level have pressured most governments to defend their traditional interests. Some powers, in contrast, have been scanning for openings and opportunities in the weaknesses of others. BRICS have thus managed to emerge as new powers on the African continent traditionally dominated by France, the U.K., and to a lesser extent, the U.S.
Author : J. Gus Liebenow
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0253302757
""A well-balanced presentation... especially notable for its succinct review of the factors currently controlling the South African political situation."" -- The Nation .."". authoritative work... "" -- Foreign Affairs .."". broad enough in its reach to be useful to teaching in interdisciplinary African studies courses for undergraduates."" -- Perspective ""Gus Liebenow has produced a winner, eminently suitable for classroom use, with enough substance to be of interest to both teachers and students."" -- Africa Today A sympathetic but hardheaded analysis of the crisis issues common to the continent as a whole: the struggle for national identity, poverty, the unresolved festering issue of white supremacy in Southern Africa, the problem of political community in the African urban setting, and the struggle for popular control over government.
Author : Claude Ake
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Africa
ISBN : UCAL:B3681248
Author : Lloyd Timberlake
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134157174
The first edition of this incisive text on the problems of drought and famine facing Africa won worldwide critical acclaim. Revised with a new introduction, Lloyd Timberlake's bestselling study is invaluable reading for anyone interested in Africa.
