The African state at a critical juncture : between disintegration and reconfiguration / edited by Leonardo A. Villalón, Phillip A. Huxtable.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Villalón, Leonardo Alfonso, 1957-

Huxtable, Phillip A., 1955-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Africa--Politics and government--1960-.

Africa.

Politics and government.

Nation-state.

Democracy--Africa.

Democracy.

Physical Description:

viii, 334 pages : 1 map ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Boulder, Colo. : Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1998.

Contents:

Part 1 The Contemporary Context of African Politics

1 The African State at the End of the Twentieth Century: Parameters of the Critical Juncture / Leonardo A. Villalon 3

2 The African State in the Global Economic Context / Julius E. Nyang'oro, Timothy M. Shaw 27

Part 2 Perspectives on State Disintegration

3 State Inversion and Nonstate Politics / Joshua Bernard Forrest 45

4 Somalia: The Structure of Dissolution / Anna Simons 57

5 Rwanda: Chaos from Above / Timothy Longman 75

6 Sierra Leone: Weak States and the New Sovereignty Game / William Reno 93

7 Zaire: The Bankruptcy of the Extractive State / John F. Clark 109

Part 3 Patterns of State Reconfiguration

8 "Empirical Statehood" and Reconfigurations of Political Order / Catherine Boone 129

9 Senegal: The Crisis of Democracy and the Emergence of an Islamic Opposition / Leonardo A. Villalon, Ousmane Kane 143

10 Kenya: The Women's Movement and Democratic Change / Maria Nzomo 167

11 Ghana: Structural Adjustment and State (Re)Formation / Daniel Green 185

12 Cote d'Ivoire: The Crisis of Distributive Politics / Dwayne Woods 213

13 Uganda: The Catholic Church and State Reconstruction / Ronald Kassimir 233

14 Zimbabwe: Women, Cultural Crisis, and the Reconfiguration of the One-Party State / Sita Ranchod-Nilsson 255

15 The African State Toward the Twenty-First Century: Legacies of the Critical Juncture / Phillip A. Huxtable 279.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

155587617X

1555876285

OCLC:

37748400