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Author : Guy Martin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Africa
ISBN : IND:30000078417809
Author : Mark Beissinger,M. Crawford Young
Publisher : Woodrow Wilson Center Press
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2002-01-24
Category : History
ISBN : 193036508X
The contributors not only study state breakdown but compare the consequences of post-communism with those of post-colonialism.
Author : Peter Lewis,John Willis Harbeson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 46,6 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 : Michael Amoah
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781838600488
Nationalism and the nation state, globalization and Pan-Africanism are leading international relations concepts which have a particular relevance for Africa as an emerging economic power. This book examines the concept of nationalism, the nationalist mind-set or 'psychology of nationalism' and the role of the nation state in an era of globalism and globalization. The 'new' Pan-Africanism is a growing force, spurred by economic growth and Africa's rising global significance and recent years have seen the establishment of the African Continental Free Trade Area. Michael Amoah here investigates concepts of nationalism and the nation state through case studies of eight countries and discusses the impact of globalism in African states where Pan-Africanism is an increasingly significant factor in both domestic politics and international relations.
Author : Adebayo O. Olukoshi,Liisa Laakso
Publisher : Nordic Africa Institute
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105019252761
The challenges facing the nation-state in contemporary Africa are increasingly attracting the attention of scholars interested to understand how the decomposition and recomposition of popular political identities on the continent are affecting the post-colonial unitary project. The studies presented in this volume show that the challenges to the post-colonial nation-state project in Africa have mainly taken ethno-regionalist, religious and separatist forms. These challenges have been shaped by the long drawn-out economic crisis, zero-sum, market-led structural adjustment, and the legacy of decades of political authoritarianism and exclusion that dates from the colonial period. The contributors to this book present different suggestions to promote national unity and a supporting civic identity in Africa.
Author : Catherine Scott
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781786722102
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 : John Markakis,Günther Schlee,John Young
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Africa, Northeast
ISBN : 3945561566
Author : Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105016063724
Author : John Emeka Akude
Publisher : Adonis & Abbey Publishers
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Social Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105124167946
Governance and Crisis of the State in Africa explores the problems and challenges of disruptive conflicts and conflict management in West Africa. Based on a robust analysis of a large stock of theoretical and empirical studies on the nature of the state in Africa and the incidents of state failure, fragmentation and collapse, the author argues that a major explanation of state weakness in Africa is the lack of the imperatives of good governance - itself rooted in the trajectory of the emergence of these states. Using the recent internal wars and ongoing conflicts in some West African states such as Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea, Guinea- Bissau and Cote d'Ivoire as case studies, the author explains how the use of inappropriate methods of conflict management exacerbates these conflicts and the crisis of the nation-state in Africa. ________________ John Emeka Akude holds a PhD in political science from the University of Cologne, Germany where he teaches African Politics, Politics of Development and International Political Economy. His research interests include political economy, the state and economic development, conflict studies, state collapse and war economies as well as the transformation of political order. His publications include "Krisen und Krisenmanagement in Afrika", Zwischen Wunschdenken und Ohnmacht: Der Anspruch der Afrikanischen Union auf Konfliktmanagement in Afrika", "Bad Governance and State Collapse in Africa" as well as "Weak States and Security Threats in West Africa". He is a member of the Working Group on the Transformation of Political Order at the Chair of International Relations, University of Cologne, Germany.
Author : P. Thandika Mkandawire,Charles Chukwuma Soludo
Publisher : IDRC
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781552502044
Our Continent, Our Future presents the emerging African perspective on this complex issue. The authors use as background their own extensive experience and a collection of 30 individual studies, 25 of which were from African economists, to summarize this African perspective and articulate a path for the future. They underscore the need to be sensitive to each country's unique history and current condition. They argue for a broader policy agenda and for a much more active role for the state within what is largely a market economy. Finally, they stress that Africa must, and can, compete in an increasingly globalized world and, perhaps most importantly, that Africans must assume the leading role in defining the continent's development agenda.
Author : Basil Davidson
Publisher : Africa World Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : 0865431221
A vivid, first hand description of how the Cape Verde Islands fared before and after freeing themselves from colonial rule.
Author : Kristín Loftsdóttir,Andrea L. Smith,Brigitte Hipfl
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781785337970
Using the economic crisis as a starting point, Messy Europe offers a critical new look at the issues of race, gender, and national understandings of self and other in contemporary Europe. It highlights and challenges historical associations of Europe with whiteness and modern civilization, and asks how these associations are re-envisioned, re-inscribed, or contested in an era characterized by crises of different kinds. This important collection provides a nuanced exploration of how racialized identities in various European regions are played out in the crisis context, and asks what work “crisis talk” does, considering how it motivates public feelings and shapes bodies, boundaries and communities.
Author : Bruce Kapferer,Bjørn Enge Bertelsen
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2009-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781845459093
Analyzing both historical contexts and geographical locations, this volume explores the continuous reformation of state power and its potential in situations of violent conflict. The state, otherwise understood as an abstract and transcendent concept in many works on globalization in political philosophy, is instead located and analyzed here as an embedded part of lived reality. This relationship to the state is exposed as an integral factor to the formation of the social – whether in Africa, the Middle East, South America or the United States. Through the examination of these particular empirical settings of war or war-like situations, the book further argues for the continued importance of the state in shifting social and political circumstances. In doing so, the authors provide a critical contribution to debates within a broad spectrum of fields that are concerned with the future of the state, the nature of sovereignty, and globalization.
Author : Nicolas Van de Walle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2001-09-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521008360
This Book explains why African countries have remained mired in a disastrous economic crisis since the late 1970s. It shows that dynamics internal to African state structures largely explain this failure to overcome economic difficulties rather than external pressures on these same structures as is often argued. Far from being prevented from undertaking reforms by societal interest and pressure groups, clientelism within the state elite, ideological factors and low state capacity have resulted in some limited reform, but much prevarication and manipulation of the reform process, by governments which do not really believe that reform will be effective.
Author : Anthony Celso,Robert Nalbandov
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Africa
ISBN : LCCN:2015025263