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How can we make sense of the persistent political instability in Guinea-Bissau, a small country that has hosted extensive international interventions and made world news headlines over several decades? This book will be an important read for researchers and policy makers involved in African politics and security issues.
List of contents
1: Introduction: The multi-level politics of 'instability' in Guinea-Bissau 2: Amilcar Cabral Today: Collective Memory and Contemporary Social Narratives in Guinea-Bissau (and beyond) 3: The leadership of João Bernardo "Nino" Vieira in Guinea-Bissau (1980-1999 and 2005-2009) 4: Betrayed hopes - or the end of the regime of Kumba Yalá 5: Non-developmental neopatrimonialism in Guinea-Bissau and political instability 6: Instability in Guinea-Bissau Through an Analysis of its Political Institutions: Early 1990s-2023 7: Resisting State Politics 8: The 2019 National Elections in Guinea-Bissau: A Quantitative Analysis on Religious and Ethnic Voting 9: Gender and Social and Political Instability: Guiné-Bissau Padi Só Fidju Matchu! 10: Institutional Conflict-Prevention Policies: The Case of Guinea-Bissau in West Africa (2012-2018) 11: Regional conflict management and global politics: ECOWAS in Guinea-Bissau 12: Senegal and Guinea-Bissau: from global to regional geopolitics? 13: Cocaine and political (in)stability in Guinea-Bissau
About the author
Ricardo Real P. de Sousa is an Assistant Professor in International Relations at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities (FCSH) of the University of Beira Interior (UBI), where he serves as the President of the Department of Sociology. He is an integrated researcher at the Centre for International Studies - Iscte, at the International University of Lisbon (IUL). He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science and International Relations from the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) at Erasmus University of Rotterdam (EUR) in the Netherlands. His research focuses on multilateral security institutions, external interventions, and conflict resolution, particularly with case studies centered on Africa.
Jens Herpolsheimer is a post-doctoral researcher at the Research Centre Global Dynamics, based at Leipzig University (Germany), and Head of the Junior Research Training Group "African Regional Economic Communities in Global Politics," funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft in the Emmy-Noether program. He holds a PhD in global studies from Leipzig University and is the author of Spatializing Practices of Regional Organizations during Conflict Intervention (Routledge, 2021). Other publications have focused on the security cooperation of the Community of Portuguese-Speaking Countries, African regional organizations, interregional maritime security cooperation, and practices of regional security governance, as well as Africa-EU relations.
Jara Cuadrado is Professor in Contemporary History at the University of Valladolid and Deputy Director of the Observatory of African Studies at the same University. PhD in International Security from the UNED (Madrid) with a thesis titled
Early warning systems in the prevention of armed conflicts. A comparative study in West Africa. Her research interests focus on studies of armed conflict and political violence, international security, conflict prevention and early warning policies, particularly in Africa. She was a visiting scholar at IPRI (New University of Lisbon) and SOAS (University of London) and participated in two projects in Africa.
Summary
How can we make sense of the persistent political instability in Guinea-Bissau, a small country that has hosted extensive international interventions and made world news headlines over several decades? This book will be an important read for researchers and policy makers involved in African politics and security issues.
