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Big African states / edited by Christopher Clapham, Jeffrey Herbst, and Greg Mills.
- Title
- Big African states / edited by Christopher Clapham, Jeffrey Herbst, and Greg Mills.
- Publication
- Johannesburg : Wits University Press, 2006.
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- Description
- [5], 301, [7] p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.
- Summary
- 7 large countries are studied here. Angola, Sudan, Congo, Ethiopia, Nigeria and South Africa. The reason for doing so is as a response to another idea. That much of Africa's troubles are exacerbated by the many small countries within Africa. So, as the idea goes, a small nation is more suspectible to failed policies. While a large country, especially those considered by the text, has more chances and resources to get things right.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Africa's big dysfunctional states: an introductory overview / Jeffrey Herbst and Greg Mills -- Ethiopia / Christopher Clapham -- War over identity: the case of Sudan / Jack Kalpakian -- Inching towards a country without a state: prebendalism, violence and state betrayal in Nigeria / Daniel C. Bach -- The Democratic Republic of Congo / Claude Kabemba -- From confusāo to estamos juntos? Bigness, development and state dysfunction in Angola / Greg Mills -- South Africa: the contrarian big African state / Tim Hughes -- Dysfunctional states, dysfunctional armed movements, and lootable commodities / Marina Ottaway -- International responses to state dysfunctionality / Nicolas van de Walle -- Conflict in Africa: armies, rebels and geography / Jeffrey Herbst -- Africa's big states and organised crime / Gail Wannenburg -- Leading large states / Joseph Ayee -- Africa and its boundaries, a legal overview: from colonialism to the African Union / Garth Abraham -- Conclusion: policy options for the problems of Africa's big states / Christopher Clapham.
- ISBN
- 1868144259
- 9781868144259
- LCCN
- ^^2006478279
- OCLC
- 70910304
- SCSB-10894842
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library