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Collapsed States : The Disintegration and Restoration of Legitimate Authority / ed. by I. William Zartman.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: SAIS African Studies LibraryPublisher: Boulder : Lynne Rienner Publishers, [2022]Copyright date: ©1995Description: 1 online resource (304 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781685853907
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction: Posing the Problem of State Collapse -- PART 1 STATES COLLAPSED AND RECONSTRUCTED -- 2 Reconstructing the State of Chad -- 3 State Collapse and Reconstruction in Uganda -- 4 Rawlings and the Engineering of Legitimacy in Ghana -- PART 2 CURRENT COLLAPSE AND FUTURE RESTORATION -- 5 Somalia: A Terrible Beauty Being Born? -- 6 Liberia: Putting the State Back Together -- 7 The Heritage of Revolution and the Struggle for Governmental Legitimacy in Mozambique -- 8 Remaking the Ethiopian State -- PART 3 STATES IN DANGER -- 9 The Collapse of the Socialist State: Angola and the Soviet Union -- 10 Zaire: Collapsed Society, Surviving State, Future Polity -- 11 Algeria: Reinstating the State or Instating a Civil Society? -- 12 South Africa: State Transition and the Management of Collapse -- PART 4 POTENTIAL AGENTS OF RECONSTRUCTION -- 13 State Collapse: The Humanitarian Challenge to the United Nations -- 14 The Role of Foreign Intervention in African Reconstruction -- 15 Democratization in Collapsed States -- 16 Strongmen, State Formation, Collapse, and Reconstruction in Africa -- PART 5 CONCLUSIONS -- 17 Putting Things Back Together -- Bibliography -- About the Contributors -- Index -- About the Book
Summary: The authors address the problem of collapsed states a phenomenon that goes far beyond rebellion or the change of regimes to involve the literal implosion of structures of authority and legitimacy by comparatively examining eleven African cases and also assessing the potential strengths and weaknesses of various responses (e.g. democratization, foreign intervention) to impending state collapse.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction: Posing the Problem of State Collapse -- PART 1 STATES COLLAPSED AND RECONSTRUCTED -- 2 Reconstructing the State of Chad -- 3 State Collapse and Reconstruction in Uganda -- 4 Rawlings and the Engineering of Legitimacy in Ghana -- PART 2 CURRENT COLLAPSE AND FUTURE RESTORATION -- 5 Somalia: A Terrible Beauty Being Born? -- 6 Liberia: Putting the State Back Together -- 7 The Heritage of Revolution and the Struggle for Governmental Legitimacy in Mozambique -- 8 Remaking the Ethiopian State -- PART 3 STATES IN DANGER -- 9 The Collapse of the Socialist State: Angola and the Soviet Union -- 10 Zaire: Collapsed Society, Surviving State, Future Polity -- 11 Algeria: Reinstating the State or Instating a Civil Society? -- 12 South Africa: State Transition and the Management of Collapse -- PART 4 POTENTIAL AGENTS OF RECONSTRUCTION -- 13 State Collapse: The Humanitarian Challenge to the United Nations -- 14 The Role of Foreign Intervention in African Reconstruction -- 15 Democratization in Collapsed States -- 16 Strongmen, State Formation, Collapse, and Reconstruction in Africa -- PART 5 CONCLUSIONS -- 17 Putting Things Back Together -- Bibliography -- About the Contributors -- Index -- About the Book

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The authors address the problem of collapsed states a phenomenon that goes far beyond rebellion or the change of regimes to involve the literal implosion of structures of authority and legitimacy by comparatively examining eleven African cases and also assessing the potential strengths and weaknesses of various responses (e.g. democratization, foreign intervention) to impending state collapse.

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