Africa and the International System - The Politics of State Survival

Klappentext The author examines how awkward! how ambiguous! how unsatisfactory! and often how tragic the encounter has been between African and Western conceptions of statehood. Zusammenfassung African independence launched into international politics a group of the world's poorest! weakest! and most artificial states. Christopher Clapham shows how an initially supportive international environment has become increasingly threatening to African rulers and the states over which they preside. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; List of acronyms and abbreviations; Part I. African States and Global Politics: 1. Fragile states and the international system; 2. The creation of an African international order; 3. Domestic statehood and foreign policy; Part II. Patterns of Alliance: 4. The foreign policies of post-colonialism; 5. The politics of solidarity; 6. The resort to the superpowers; Part III. Struggling with Decay: 7. The international politics of economic failure; 8. The externalisation of political accountability; 9. The international politics of insurgency; 10. The privatisation of diplomacy; 11. Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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• Authors: Christopher Clapham, Christopher (Lancaster University) Clapham, Thomas Leiper Kane Collection (Library O
• Assisted by: Thomas J. Biersteker (Editor), Steve Smith (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.09.1996
• EAN: 9780521572071
• ISBN: 978-0-521-57207-1
• No. of pages: 356
• Series: Cambridge Monographs on Applie
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education