Increasingly marginalized since the end of the Cold War, the
continent of Africa is struggling to identify both the root causes
and possible solutions to the maladies that continue to plague it.
The problems read like a laundry list of misrule in the aftermath
of decolonization: rampant political corruption, internecine wars,
widespread disease, underdevelopment, and economic collapse. In the
early 1990s, a group of statesmen, academics, and civil leaders
from all over Africa gathered to put together a comprehensive plan
to make the continent become less dependent on the rest of the
world and prepare it to compete in the new globalizing economy.
Those who gathered to write what would come to be known as the
Kampala Document envisioned an organization which would succeed
where the Organization for African Unity (OAU) had failed. This new
organization, the Conference on Security, Stability, Development
and Cooperation in Africa (CSSDCA), will provide a forum for
discussion of democratization, security issues, and sustainable
development. This new book by noted scholars Francis Deng and I.
William Zartman provides a "mid-course" appraisal of the progress
of the CSSDCA, as well as charting its future in relation to other
regional organizations. With a preface by President Olusegun
Obasanjo, this book will undoubtedly become an important tool in
understanding Africa's present and future. Francis Deng is a
nonresident senior fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies program at
the Brookings Institution. His books include Masses in Flight: The
Global Crisis of Internal Displacement (Brookings, 1998, with
Roberta Cohen), The Forsaken People: Case Studies of the Internally
Displaced (Brookings, 1998, co-edited with Roberta Cohen). I.
William Zartman is Jacob Blaustein Professor of International
Organizations and Conflict Resolution and Director of African
Studies at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International
Studies.
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