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Civil war and state formation : the political economy of war and peace in Liberia / Felix Gerdes.
- Title
- Civil war and state formation : the political economy of war and peace in Liberia / Felix Gerdes.
- Author
- Gerdes, Felix.
- Publication
- Frankfurt ; New York : Campus Verlag, c2013.
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- Description
- x, 291 p. : ill., maps; 22 cm.
- Summary
- Liberia was the scene of two devastating civil wars since late 1989 and became widely considered a failed state. By contrast, the country is frequently described as a success story since the international professional Ellen Johnson Sirleaf assumed the presidency following democratic elections in 2005. The book investigates the political economy of civil war and democratic peace and puts the developments into historical perspective. The author argues that the civil wars did not represent the breakdown of the state but exhibited dynamics characteristic of state formation. His analysis of continuity and change in Liberia's political evolution details both political progress and persistent structural deficits of the polity. Book jacket.
- Series Statement
- Mikropolitik der Gewalt = Micropolitics of violence ; Volume 9
- Uniform Title
- Micropolitics of violence ; v. 9.
- Alternative Title
- Political economy of war and peace in Liberia
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Biographies
- Note
- Revised and updated version of the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Hamburg, 2011.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction -- War, peace, and young states -- The first Libertarian civil war: the rise of Charles Taylor -- Taylor's fall and the dawn of a neo-patrimonial democracy -- Conclusion.
- ISBN
- 9783593398921 (pbk.)
- OCLC
- 858073000
- SCSB-12458754
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library