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The criminalization of the state in Africa / Jean-François Bayart, Stephen Ellis, Béatrice Hibou ; translated from the French by Stephen Ellis.
- Title
- The criminalization of the state in Africa / Jean-François Bayart, Stephen Ellis, Béatrice Hibou ; translated from the French by Stephen Ellis.
- Author
- Bayart, Jean-François.
- Publication
- [London] : International African Institute in association with J. Currey, Oxford ; Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1999.
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- Description
- xviii, 126 p. : ill., maps; 23 cm.
- Summary
- This text charts the growth of fraud and smuggling in African states, the development of an economy of plunder and the growth of private armies. It argues that the state itself is engendering organized criminal activity.
- Series Statement
- African issues
- Uniform Title
- African issues.
- Criminalisation de l'Etat en Afrique. English
- Alternative Title
- Criminalisation de l'Etat en Afrique.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 122-123) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- From kleptocracy to the felonious state? / Jean-François Bayart, Stephen Ellis & Beatrice Hibou -- The "social capital" of the felonious state : or the ruses of political intelligence / Jean-François Bayart -- The new frontiers of crime in South Africa / Stephen Ellis -- The "social capital" of the state as an agent of deception : or the ruses of economic intelligence / Béatrice Hibou -- Conclusion / Jean-François Bayart.
- ISBN
- 0253335248 (Indiana University Press cased)
- 0253212863 (Indiana University Press pbk.)
- 0852558139 (cased)
- 0852558120 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^^98038856^
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library