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Postcolonial State in Africa - Fifty Years of Independence, 1960-2010

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Informationen zum Autor Crawford Young is the Rupert Emerson Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His many books include The Rise and Decline of the Zairian State , Ideology and Development in Africa , The Politics of Cultural Pluralism , and The African Colonial State in Comparative Perspective . Klappentext Offers an authoritative comparative overview of fifty years of African independence! drawing on decades of research and first-hand experience. Young identifies three cycles of hope and disappointment common to many of the African states: initial euphoria at independence in the 1960s followed by disillusionment and a lapse into single-party autocracies and military rule; a period of renewed confidence! radicalization! and state expansion in the 1970s preceding state crisis and even failure in the 1980s; and a phase of reborn optimism during the continental wave of democratization beginning around 1990. Zusammenfassung In The Postcolonial State in Africa! Crawford Young offers an informed and authoritative comparative overview of fifty years of African independence! drawing on his decades of research and first-hand experience on the African continent. Young identifies three cycles of hope and disappointment common to many of the African states (including those in North Africa) over the last half-century: initial euphoria at independence in the 1960s followed by disillusionment with a lapse into single-party autocracies and military rule; a period of renewed confidence! radicalization! and ambitious state expansion in the 1970s preceding state crisis and even failure in the disastrous 1980s; and a phase of reborn optimism during the continental wave of democratization beginning around 1990. He explores in depth the many African civil wars--especially those since 1990--and three key tracks of identity: Africanism! territorial nationalism! and ethnicity. Only more recently! Young argues! have the paths of the fifty-three African states begun to diverge more dramatically! with some leading to liberalization and others to political! social! and economic collapse--outcomes impossible to predict at the outset of independence. ...

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Authors Crawford Young, Young Crawford
Publisher The University of Wisconsin Press
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 15.11.2012
 
EAN 9780299291440
ISBN 978-0-299-29144-0
No. of pages 424
Series Africa and the Diaspora: Histo
Africa and the Diaspora: Histo
Subjects Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous
Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political system

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