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State Failure in Sub-Saharan Africa - The Crisis of Post-Colonial Order (Hardcover) Loot Price: R4,136
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State Failure in Sub-Saharan Africa - The Crisis of Post-Colonial Order (Hardcover): Catherine Scott

State Failure in Sub-Saharan Africa - The Crisis of Post-Colonial Order (Hardcover)

Catherine Scott

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How should failed states in Africa be understood? Catherine Scott here critically engages with the concept of state failure and provides an historical reinterpretation. She shows that, although the concept emerged in the context of the post-Cold War new world order, the phenomenon has been attendant throughout (and even before) the development of the Westphalian state system. Contemporary failed states, however, differ from their historical counterparts in one fundamental respect: they fail within their existing borders and continue to be recognised as something that they are not. This peculiarity derives from international norms instituted in the era of decolonisation, which resulted in the inviolability of state borders and the supposed universality of statehood. Scott argues that contemporary failed states are, in fact, failed post-colonies. Thus understood, state failure is less the failure of existing states and more the failed rooting and institutionalisation of imported and reified models of Western statehood. Drawing on insights from the histories of Uganda and Burundi, from pre-colonial polity formation to the present day, she explores why and how there have been failures to create effective and legitimate national states within the bounds of inherited colonial jurisdictions on much of the African continent.

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Imprint: I.B. Tauris
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: June 2017
Authors: Catherine Scott
Dimensions: 216 x 138 x 29mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 978-1-78453-965-8
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political science & theory
Books > Humanities > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > General
Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political ideologies > Imperialism
Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political structure & processes > Colonization & independence
Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > International relations > General
Books > Humanities > History > World history > From 1900 > Postwar, from 1945
Books > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > General
Books > History > World history > From 1900 > Postwar, from 1945
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LSN: 1-78453-965-1
Barcode: 9781784539658

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