Democratization in Mali
Subtitle: putting history to work
By: Robert Pringle.
Contributors: United States Institute of Peace.
Series: Peaceworks -- no. 58.; Peaceworks -- no. 58.
Publisher: United States Institute of Peace
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 77
Subjects: Democratization -- Mali.; Decentralization in government -- Mali.; Mali -- Politics and government -- 1991-
Notes: Cover title.

"October 2006" -- Cover verso.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 69-75).

Electronic version available on the USIP web site.
Table of contents: title: 1. Introduction; title: 2. The geographic and historical setting; title: 3. Drivers of democratization; title: 4. The formative phase; title: 5. Threats to democracy: Malian perceptions; title: 6. Threats to democracy: problems less clearly seen by Malians, including radical Islam and desert unrest; title: 7. Women in the new democracy; title: 8. Freedom is ringing: the joy of political liberty and the new role of the military; title: 9. Decentralization: the heart of the matter; title: 10. The Niger authority: democratization vs. hydraulic despotism?; title: 11. Malian democracy in regional perspective; title: 12. Recommendations and conclusion.