Big African states
By: edited by Christopher Clapham, Jeffrey Herbst and Greg Mills
Contributors: Clapham, Christopher S; Herbst, Jeffrey Ira; Mills, Greg, Dr
Publisher: Wits University Press; Brand: Witwatersrand University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Johannesburg
Language: eng
Number of pages: 301
ISBN-13: 9781868144259
Subjects: Africa -- Politics and government -- 1960-
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Africa's big dysfunctional states: an introductory overview / Jeffrey Herbst and Greg Mills; title: Ethiopia / Christopher Clapham; title: War over identity: the case of Sudan / Jack Kalpakian; title: Inching towards a country without a state: prebendalism, violence and state betrayal in Nigeria / Daniel C. Bach; title: The Democratic Republic of Congo / Claude Kabemba; title: From confusāo to estamos juntos? Bigness, development and state dysfunction in Angola / Greg Mills; title: South Africa: the contrarian big African state / Tim Hughes; title: Dysfunctional states, dysfunctional armed movements, and lootable commodities / Marina Ottaway; title: International responses to state dysfunctionality / Nicolas van de Walle; title: Conflict in Africa: armies, rebels and geography / Jeffrey Herbst; title: Africa's big states and organised crime / Gail Wannenburg; title: Leading large states / Joseph Ayee; title: Africa and its boundaries, a legal overview: from colonialism to the African Union / Garth Abraham; title: Conclusion: policy options for the problems of Africa's big states / Christopher Clapham