TY - BOOK AU - Boone,Catherine AU - Clark,John F. AU - Forrest,Joshua Bernard AU - Green,Daniel AU - Huxtable,Phillip A. AU - Kassimir,Ronald AU - Longman,Timothy AU - Nyang’Oro,Julius E. AU - Nzomo,Maria AU - Ranchod-Nilsson,Sita AU - Reno,William AU - Shaw,Timothy M. AU - Simons,Anna AU - Villalon,Leonardo A. AU - Villalón,Leonardo A. AU - Woods,Dwayne TI - The African State at a Critical Juncture: Between Disintegration and Reconfiguration SN - 9781685853815 PY - 2022///] CY - Boulder : PB - Lynne Rienner Publishers, KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / African KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Part 1 The Contemporary Context of African Politics --; 1 The African State at the End of the Twentieth Century: Parameters of the Critical Juncture --; 2 The African State in the Global Economic Context --; Part 2 Perspectives on State Disintegration --; 3 State Inversion and Nonstate Politics --; 4 Somalia: The Structure of Dissolution --; 5 Rwanda: Chaos from Above --; 6 Sierra Leone: Weak States and the New Sovereignty Game --; 7 Zaire: The Bankruptcy of the Extractive State --; 8 “Empirical Statehood” and Reconfigurations of Political Order --; 9 Senegal: The Crisis of Democracy and the Emergence of an Islamic Opposition --; 10 Kenya: The Women’s Movement and Democratic Change --; 11 Ghana: Structural Adjustment and State (Re)Formation --; 12 Côte d’Ivoire: The Crisis of Distributive Politics --; 13 Uganda: The Catholic Church and State Reconstruction --; 14 Zimbabwe: Women, Cultural Crisis, and the Reconfiguration of the One-Party State --; Part 4 Conclusion --; 15 The African State Toward the Twenty-First Century: Legacies of the Critical Juncture --; Acronyms --; References --; The Contributors --; Index --; About the Book; restricted access N2 - Comparatively explores the sources, patterns, and likely evolution of significant political change in a variety of African cases UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781685853815 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781685853815 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781685853815/original ER -