A strategic vision for Africa : the Kampala movement / Francis M. Deng and I. William Zartman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Deng, Francis Mading, 1938-

Contributor:

Zartman, I. William.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

National security--Africa.

National security.

Sustainable development--Africa.

Sustainable development.

Africa--Foreign relations--1960-.

Africa.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (216 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Increasingly marginalized since the end of the Cold War, the continent of Africa is struggling to identify both the root causes and possible solutions to the maladies that continue to plague it. The problems read like a laundry list of misrule in the aftermath of decolonization: rampant political corruption, internecine wars, widespread disease, underdevelopment, and economic collapse. In the early 1990's, a group of statesmen, academics, and civil leaders from all over Africa gathered to put together a comprehensive plan to make the continent become less dependent on the rest of the world and

Contents:

Introduction

The African context

Regimes in other regions

An evolving framework

Beacons and benchmarks.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (170-187) and index.

ISBN:

9780815798439

0815798431

OCLC:

53371728