num_pages: 344
description: Decalo ( Psychoses of Power , 1989) looks beyond the headlines of perennial coups and unstable relations between civilian and military powers throughout Africa, to analyze how the civilian rulers of Malawi, Gabon, and Kenya have kept their militaries subordinate for 30 years. He discounts the structural and uni-causal analyses, and argues that many distinct methods have been successful. He warns that the end of the Cold War has changed only the external influences, not the internal conditions that determine stability in countries and the continent. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
language: English
title: THE STABLE MINORITY: CIVILIAN RULE IN AFRICA (African Studies Series
titlecomplete: THE STABLE MINORITY: CIVILIAN RULE IN AFRICA (African Studies Series (Gainesville, Fla.), No. 1.)
publisher: Florida Academic Press