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African Conflicts and Informal Power - Big Men and Networks (Hardcover)
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African Conflicts and Informal Power - Big Men and Networks (Hardcover)
Series: Africa Now
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In the aftermath of an armed conflict in Africa, the international
community both produces and demands from local partners a variety
of blueprints on how to reconstruct state and society. The aim is
to re-formalize the state after what is viewed as a brief or
extended period of fragmentation and informalization caused by
armed conflict. In reality, both African economies and politics are
very much informal in character, with informal actors (including
so-called "Big Men") often using their positions in the formal
structure as a means to reach informal goals. Through a variety of
in-depth case studies - from DRC to Somali to Liberia among others
- this book shows how important informal political and economic
networks are in many of the continent's conflict areas. More than
this, it demonstrated that without a proper understanding of their
impacts in areas such as borderlands and in "narco-states" such as
Guinne-Bissau, attempts to "formalize" African states, particularly
those emerging from wars, will be in vain.
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