Africa and the International System The Politics of State Survival (PDF)

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Synopsis

African independence launched into international politics a
group of the world's poorest, weakest and most artificial
states. How have such states managed to survive? To what
extent is their survival now threatened? Christopher Clapham
shows how an initially supportive international environment
has - as a result partly of political and economic mismanagement
within African states themselves, partly of global developments
over which they had no control - became
increasingly threatening to African rulers and the states over
which they preside. The author also reveals how international
conventions designed to uphold state sovereignty have often
been appropriated and subverted by rulers to enhance their
domestic control, and how African states have been undermined
by guerrilla insurgencies and the use of international
relations to serve essentially private ends. He shows how
awkward, how ambiguous, how unsatisfactory, and often how
tragic, has been the encounter between Africa and Western
conceptions of statehood.

Book details

Series:
Cambridge Studies In International Relations Ser. (Book 50)
Author:
Christopher Clapham, Caroline Kennedy-Pipe, Steve Lamy, Thomas Biersteker, Chris Brown, Phil Cerny, Joseph Grieco, A. Groom, Steve Smith, Richard Higgott, G. Ikenberry
ISBN:
9780521572071
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Pages:
N/A
Reading age:
Not specified
Includes images:
No
Date of addition:
2019-09-09
Usage restrictions:
Copyright
Copyright date:
1996
Copyright by:
Christopher Clapham 
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Categories:
Nonfiction, Politics and Government