| Description |
vii, 303 pages ; 24 cm |
| Series |
SAIS African studies library |
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SAIS African studies library (Boulder, Colo.)
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| Contents |
1. Introduction: Posing the Problem of State Collapse / I. William Zartman -- 2. Reconstructing the State of Chad / William J. Foltz -- 3. State Collapse and Reconstruction in Uganda / Gilbert M. Khadiagala -- 4. Rawlings and the Engineering of Legitimacy in Ghana / Donald Rothchild -- 5. Somalia: A Terrible Beauty Being Born? / Hussein M. Adam -- 6. Liberia: Putting the State Back Together / Martin Lowenkopf -- 7. The Heritage of Revolution and the Struggle for Governmental Legitimacy in Mozambique / Barry Schutz -- 8. Remaking the Ethiopian State / Edmond Keller -- 9. The Collapse of the Socialist State: Angola and the Soviet Union / Leonid L. Fituni -- 10. Zaire: Collapsed Society, Surviving State, Future Polity / Herbert Weiss -- 11. Algeria: Reinstating the State or Instating a Civil Society? / Azzedine Layachi -- 12. South Africa: State Transition and the Management of Collapse / Sipho Shezi |
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13. State Collapse: The Humanitarian Challenge to the United Nations / Francis Mading Deng -- 14. The Role of Foreign Intervention in African Reconstruction / Ibrahim A. Gambari -- 15. Democratization in Collapsed States / Marina Ottaway -- 16. Strongmen, State Formation, Collapse, and Reconstruction in Africa / Njuguna Ng'ethe -- 17. Putting Things Back Together / I. William Zartman |
| Analysis |
Africa |
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Government History |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-289)) and index |
| Subject |
Authority -- Case studies.
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Legitimacy of governments -- Africa -- Case studies.
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Political stability -- Africa -- Case studies.
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| SUBJECT |
Africa -- Politics and government -- 1960- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001573
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| Genre/Form |
Case studies.
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| Author |
Zartman, I. William.
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| LC no. |
94025734 |
| ISBN |
1555875181 (alk. paper) |
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1555875602 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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