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The African State at a Critical Juncture : Between Disintegration and Reconfiguration / ed. by Phillip A. Huxtable, Leonardo A. Villalon.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (334 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Boulder : Lynne Rienner Publishers, [2022]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- Comparatively explores the sources, patterns, and likely evolution of significant political change in a variety of African cases.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Part 1 The Contemporary Context of African Politics
- 1 The African State at the End of the Twentieth Century: Parameters of the Critical Juncture
- 2 The African State in the Global Economic Context
- Part 2 Perspectives on State Disintegration
- 3 State Inversion and Nonstate Politics
- 4 Somalia: The Structure of Dissolution
- 5 Rwanda: Chaos from Above
- 6 Sierra Leone: Weak States and the New Sovereignty Game
- 7 Zaire: The Bankruptcy of the Extractive State
- 8 “Empirical Statehood” and Reconfigurations of Political Order
- 9 Senegal: The Crisis of Democracy and the Emergence of an Islamic Opposition
- 10 Kenya: The Women’s Movement and Democratic Change
- 11 Ghana: Structural Adjustment and State (Re)Formation
- 12 Côte d’Ivoire: The Crisis of Distributive Politics
- 13 Uganda: The Catholic Church and State Reconstruction
- 14 Zimbabwe: Women, Cultural Crisis, and the Reconfiguration of the One-Party State
- Part 4 Conclusion
- 15 The African State Toward the Twenty-First Century: Legacies of the Critical Juncture
- Acronyms
- References
- 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:
- 1-68585-381-1
- OCLC:
- 1334343745
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