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Failed and failing states : the challenges to African reconstruction / edited by Muna Ndulo and Margaret Grieco.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Failed states--Africa--Congresses.
- Failed states.
- Nation-building--Africa--Congresses.
- Nation-building.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (228 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- State collapse is one of the major threats to peace, stability, and economic development in sub-Saharan Africa today. In a collapsed state the regime finally wears out its ability to satisfy the demands of the various groups in society; it fails to govern or to keep the state together. The collapse is marked by the loss of control over political and economic space. A collapsed state can no longer perform its basic security and development functions and has no effective control over its territ...
- Contents:
- CONTENTS; LIST OF FIGURES AND TABLES; PREFACE; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-58819-2
- 9786612588198
- 1-4438-1884-4
- OCLC:
- 823720861
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