Africa In World Politics: The African State System In Flux - Couverture souple

Harbeson, John W; Rothchild, Donald

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0813336139 ISBN 13 : 9780813336138

Editeur : Westview Press, 2000

Synopsis

wraps, 396 pp, slight crease in spine

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Africa in World Politics addresses the effects of major currents in Africa and global politics upon each other and the ramifications of these interrelationships for contemporary theories of international and comparative politics. This third edition focuses on the changing state system in sub-Saharan Africa. The nation-state as we know it is a legacy of European rule in Africa, and the primacy of the nation-state remains a bedrock of most contemporary theories of international relations. Yet in the fourth decade of Africa's independence, this colonial inheritance is being challenged as never before with potentially far-reaching implications for Africa, and for world politics as a whole. The authors examine a variety of changing state systems on the continent, ranging from the rapidly failing Western-style states (Rwanda, the Sudan, and others), to new states emerging from old ones (Eritrea from Ethiopia), to states becoming radically decentralized (Ethiopia, Uganda).

Biographie de l'auteur :

John W. Harbeson is professor of political science in the Graduate School and at City College of the City University of New York and the author of The Ethiopian Transformation (WestviewPress 1988). Donald Rothchild is professor of political science at the University of California at Davis and the coeditor (with Naomi Chazan) of The Precarious Balance: State and Society in Africa (WestviewPress 1988).

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Westview Press
• Date d'édition: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0813336139
• ISBN 13: 9780813336138
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 3
• Nombre de pages: 408