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Big African states / edited by Christopher Clapham, Jeffrey Herbst, and Greg Mills.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Africa--Politics and government--1960-.
- Africa.
- Politics and government.
- Physical Description:
- 5 unnumbered pages, 301 pages, 7 unnumbered pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Johannesburg : Wits University Press, 2006.
- Contents:
- Africa's big dysfunctional states: an introductory overview / Jeffrey Herbst and Greg Mills
- Ethiopia / Christopher Clapham
- War over identity: the case of Sudan / Jack Kalpakian
- Inching towards a country without a state: prebendalism, violence and state betrayal in Nigeria / Daniel C. Bach
- The Democratic Republic of Congo / Claude Kabemba
- From confusåao to estamos juntos? Bigness, development and state dysfunction in Angola / Greg Mills
- South Africa: the contrarian big African state / Tim Hughes
- Dysfunctional states, dysfunctional armed movements, and lootable commodities / Marina Ottaway
- International responses to state dysfunctionality / Nicolas van de Walle
- Conflict in Africa: armies, rebels and geography / Jeffrey Herbst
- Africa's big states and organised crime / Gail Wannenburg
- Leading large states / Joseph Ayee
- Africa and its boundaries, a legal overview: from colonialism to the African Union / Garth Abraham
- Conclusion: policy options for the problems of Africa's big states / Christopher Clapham.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Harry E. Humphreys Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 1868144259
- 9781868144259
- OCLC:
- 70910304
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