Collapsed States : The Disintegration and Restoration of Legitimate Authority / ed. by I. William Zartman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Adam, Hussein M., Contributor.

Deng, Francis Mading, Contributor.

Fituni, Leonid L., Contributor.

Foltz, William J., Contributor.

Gambari, Ibrahim A., Contributor.

Keller, Edmond, Contributor.

Khadiagala, Gilbert M., Contributor.

Layachi, Azzedine, Contributor.

Lowenkopf, Martin, Contributor.

Ng’ethe, Njuguna, Contributor.

Ottaway, Marina, Contributor.

Rothchild, Donald, Contributor.

Schutz, Barry, Contributor.

Shezi, Sipho, Contributor.

Weiss, Herbert, Contributor.

Zartman, I. William, Editor.

Zartman, I. William, Contributor.

Series:

SAIS African Studies Library

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (304 p.)

Place of Publication:

Boulder : Lynne Rienner Publishers, [2022]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The authors address the problem of collapsed states a phenomenon that goes far beyond rebellion or the change of regimes to involve the literal implosion of structures of authority and legitimacy by comparatively examining eleven African cases and also assessing the potential strengths and weaknesses of various responses (e.g. democratization, foreign intervention) to impending state collapse.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

1 Introduction: Posing the Problem of State Collapse

PART 1 STATES COLLAPSED AND RECONSTRUCTED

2 Reconstructing the State of Chad

3 State Collapse and Reconstruction in Uganda

4 Rawlings and the Engineering of Legitimacy in Ghana

PART 2 CURRENT COLLAPSE AND FUTURE RESTORATION

5 Somalia: A Terrible Beauty Being Born?

6 Liberia: Putting the State Back Together

7 The Heritage of Revolution and the Struggle for Governmental Legitimacy in Mozambique

8 Remaking the Ethiopian State

PART 3 STATES IN DANGER

9 The Collapse of the Socialist State: Angola and the Soviet Union

10 Zaire: Collapsed Society, Surviving State, Future Polity

11 Algeria: Reinstating the State or Instating a Civil Society?

12 South Africa: State Transition and the Management of Collapse

PART 4 POTENTIAL AGENTS OF RECONSTRUCTION

13 State Collapse: The Humanitarian Challenge to the United Nations

14 The Role of Foreign Intervention in African Reconstruction

15 Democratization in Collapsed States

16 Strongmen, State Formation, Collapse, and Reconstruction in Africa

PART 5 CONCLUSIONS

17 Putting Things Back Together

Bibliography

About the Contributors

Index

About the Book

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jun 2022)

ISBN:

1-68585-390-0

OCLC:

1334344904