Africa and the international system : the politics of state survival
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Africa and the international system : the politics of state survival
(Cambridge studies in international relations, 50)
Cambridge University Press, 1996
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Available at 41 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto Universityアフリカ専攻
: pbk319.4||Cla98082037
Note
Bibliography: p. 311-331
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
African independence launched into international politics a group of the world's poorest, weakest, and most artificial states. How have such states managed to survive? To what extent is their survival now threatened? Christopher Clapham shows how an initially supportive international environment has - as a result partly of political and economic mismanagement within African states themselves, partly of global developments over which they had no control - become increasingly threatening to African rulers and the states over which they preside. The author also reveals how international conventions designed to uphold state sovereignty have often been appropriated and subverted by rulers to enhance their domestic control, and how African states have been undermined by guerrilla insurgencies and the use of international relations to serve essentially private ends. He shows how awkward, how ambiguous, how unsatisfactory, and often how tragic, has been the encounter between Africa and Western conceptions of statehood.
Table of Contents
- 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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