Contemporary West African States

Klappentext This new volume--appearing a decade after the successful 'West African States: Failure and Promise'--provides up-to-date studies of nine states! including Chad! Burkina Faso and Cameroon! which were neglected in the earlier volume! and introduces contemporary theories of West African politics. Zusammenfassung This new volume provides up-to-date studies of nine states! including Chad! Burkina Faso and Cameroon! and introduces contemporary theories of West African politics. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of contributors; Preface; 1. Introduction Donal B. Cruise O'Brien and Richard Rathbone; 2. Burkino Faso: between feeble and state and total state, the swing continues Rene Otayek; 3. Cameroon Jean-Francois Bayart; 4. Chad: the narrow escape of an African state, 1965-1987 Robert Buijtenhuijs; 5. Cote d'Ivoire: analysing the crisis Yves A. Faure; 6. Ghana: the political economy of personal rule Richard Jeffries; 7. Liberia Christopher Clapham; 8. Nigeria: power for profit: class, corporatism, and factionalism in the military Shehu Othman; 9. Senegal Christian Coulon and Donal B. Cruise O'Brien; 10. Sierra Leone: state, consolidation, fragmentation and decay Fred M. Hayward; 11. Conclusion John Dunn.

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• Authors: &apos, Donal B.cruise Dunn brien, O&apos, Donal Cruise O'Brien, Donal B.cruise Dunn O''''brien
• Assisted by: John Dunn (Editor), Donal Cruise O'Brien (Editor), Richard Rathbone (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.02.1990
• EAN: 9780521368933
• ISBN: 978-0-521-36893-3
• No. of pages: 236
• Series: African Studies Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous