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In the Name of the People - How Populism is Rewiring the World (Paperback): Tendai Biti, Nic Cheeseman, Christopher Clapham,... In the Name of the People - How Populism is Rewiring the World (Paperback)
Tendai Biti, Nic Cheeseman, Christopher Clapham, Ray Hartley, Greg Mills
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R350 R273 Discovery Miles 2 730 Save R77 (22%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days
The Horn of Africa - State Formation and Decay (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition): Christopher Clapham The Horn of Africa - State Formation and Decay (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
Christopher Clapham
R525 R410 Discovery Miles 4 100 Save R115 (22%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Why is the Horn such a distinctive part of Africa? This book, by one of the foremost scholars of the region, traces this question through its exceptional history and also probes the wildly divergent fates of the Horn's contemporary nation-states, despite the striking regional particularity inherited from the colonial past. Christopher Clapham explores how the Horn's peculiar topography gave rise to the Ethiopian empire, the sole African state not only to survive European colonialism, but also to participate in a colonial enterprise of its own. Its impact on its neighbours, present-day Djibouti, Eritrea, Somalia and Somaliland, created a region very different from that of post-colonial Africa. This dynamic has become all the more distinct since 1991, when Eritrea and Somaliland emerged from the break-up of both Ethiopia and Somalia. Yet this evolution has produced highly varied outcomes in the region's constituent countries, from state collapse (and deeply flawed reconstruction) in Somalia, through militarised isolation in Eritrea, to a still fragile 'developmental state' in Ethiopia. The tensions implicit in the process of state formation now drive the relationships between the once historically close nations of the Horn.

The Political Dilemmas of Military Regimes (Paperback): Christopher Clapham, George Philip The Political Dilemmas of Military Regimes (Paperback)
Christopher Clapham, George Philip
R930 Discovery Miles 9 300 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First published in 1985, The Political Dilemmas of Military Regimes was written against the backdrop of the increased prominence of military intervention in the political process during this century. The book puts forward the argument that the basic problem for military regimes is not how they gain power, but what they can do with it once they have it. It discusses the enormous range of cultural and historical circumstances that military organisations are derived from, and how widely they vary in their structure, politics, and social composition. The book also highlights the dilemma of choosing between institutionalisation and demilitarisation as one that all military regimes must eventually face. The Political Dilemmas of Military Regimes is an in-depth study that draws on global material and experiences from throughout the century.

Third World Politics - An Introduction (Paperback, New Ed): Christopher Clapham Third World Politics - An Introduction (Paperback, New Ed)
Christopher Clapham
R1,117 Discovery Miles 11 170 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

An example introductory textbook on the politics of Third World Countries, this book draws on examples from Latin America, Africa and Asia to analyse their role in the global political economy.

The Political Dilemmas of Military Regimes (Hardcover): Christopher Clapham, George Philip The Political Dilemmas of Military Regimes (Hardcover)
Christopher Clapham, George Philip
R3,120 Discovery Miles 31 200 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First published in 1985, The Political Dilemmas of Military Regimes was written against the backdrop of the increased prominence of military intervention in the political process during this century. The book puts forward the argument that the basic problem for military regimes is not how they gain power, but what they can do with it once they have it. It discusses the enormous range of cultural and historical circumstances that military organisations are derived from, and how widely they vary in their structure, politics, and social composition. The book also highlights the dilemma of choosing between institutionalisation and demilitarisation as one that all military regimes must eventually face. The Political Dilemmas of Military Regimes is an in-depth study that draws on global material and experiences from throughout the century.

Third World Politics - An Introduction (Hardcover): Christopher Clapham Third World Politics - An Introduction (Hardcover)
Christopher Clapham
R3,399 Discovery Miles 33 990 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

An example introductory textbook on the politics of Third World Countries, this book draws on examples from Latin America, Africa and Asia to analyse their role in the global political economy.

Liberia and Sierra Leone - An Essay in Comparative Politics (Paperback): Christopher Clapham Liberia and Sierra Leone - An Essay in Comparative Politics (Paperback)
Christopher Clapham
R932 Discovery Miles 9 320 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Very similar in some ways, but strikingly different in others, Sierra Leone and Liberia have an obvious appeal for comparative analysis. They share the legacy of foundation by immigrants of African descent and the juxtaposition of these with indigenous peoples, but within the contrasting institutional frameworks of settler independence and British colonialism. They have similar social and economic structures but sharply dissimilar political records: Liberia has long been regarded as the classic case of stability at the price of oligarchy, whereas Sierra Leone, after a period as West Africa's most successful two-party democracy, suffered a succession of military coups and by 1973 was effectively a single-party state. This study seeks to analyse and account for both similarities and differences, looking at the two countries' experience in the 1960s and early 1970s, not only in central politics but also at the local level and in economic policy.

Borders and Borderlands as Resources in the Horn of Africa (Paperback): Dereje Feyissa, Markus Virgil Hoehne Borders and Borderlands as Resources in the Horn of Africa (Paperback)
Dereje Feyissa, Markus Virgil Hoehne; Contributions by Cedric Barnes, Christopher Clapham, Dereje Feyissa, …
R750 Discovery Miles 7 500 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Borders offer opportunities as well as restrictions, and in the Horn of Africa they are used as economic, political, identity and status resources by borderland peoples. State borders are more than barriers. They structure social, economic and political spaces and as such provide opportunities as well as obstacles for the communities straddling both sides of the border. This book deals with the conduits and opportunities of state borders in the Horn of Africa, and investigates how the people living there exploit them through various strategies. Using a micro level perspective, the case studies, which include the borders of Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Sudan, Somalia, Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania, focus on opportunities, highlight the agency of the borderlanders, and acknowledge the permeability but consequentiality of the borders. Dereje Feyissa is Africa Research Director at the International Law and Policy Institute and Adjunct Professor at Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia. Markus Virgil Hoehne is a Lecturer at the Institute of Anthropology at Leipzig University.

Africa and the International System - The Politics of State Survival (Hardcover): Christopher Clapham Africa and the International System - The Politics of State Survival (Hardcover)
Christopher Clapham
R2,639 R1,898 Discovery Miles 18 980 Save R741 (28%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

African independence launched into international politics a group of the world's poorest, weakest and most artificial states. How have such states managed to survive? To what extent is their survival now threatened? Christopher Clapham shows how an initially supportive international environment has become increasingly threatening to African rulers and the states over which they preside. The author reveals how international conventions designed to uphold state sovereignty have often been appropriated and subverted by rulers to enhance their domestic control, and how African states have been undermined by guerrilla insurgencies and the use of international relations to serve essentially private ends.

Transformation and Continuity in Revolutionary Ethiopia (Paperback, Revised): Christopher Clapham Transformation and Continuity in Revolutionary Ethiopia (Paperback, Revised)
Christopher Clapham
R943 Discovery Miles 9 430 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This pioneering study was first published in 1988. It examines the effects of revolution on one of Africa's largest states. Christopher Clapham traces the continuities between revolutionary Ethiopia and the development of a centralised Ethiopian state since the nineteenth century, emphasising the institutionalisation of the revolutionary regime since 1978. He pays particular attention to the establishment of a Leninist political party and its associated mass organisations, the new apparatus of physical and economic control, and - critically important in Ethiopia - the effects of revolution on agricultural production. He also assesses the impact of revolution on national integration and regional conflict, and the reversal of Ethiopia's international alignment through alliance with the socialist states. A postscript to the paperback edition outlines events in Ethiopia between 1987 and 1990.

Borders and Borderlands as Resources in the Horn of Africa (Hardcover, New): Dereje Feyissa, Markus Virgil Hoehne Borders and Borderlands as Resources in the Horn of Africa (Hardcover, New)
Dereje Feyissa, Markus Virgil Hoehne; Contributions by Cedric Barnes, Christopher Clapham, Dereje Feyissa, …
R2,227 Discovery Miles 22 270 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Borders offer opportunities as well as restrictions, and in the Horn of Africa they are used as economic, political, identity and status resources by borderland peoples. State borders are more than barriers. They structure social, economic and political spaces and as such provide opportunities as well as obstacles for the communities straddling both sides of the border. This book deals with the conduits and opportunities of state borders in the Horn of Africa, and investigates how the people living there exploit state borders through various strategies. Using a micro level perspective, the case studies, which includethe Horn and Eastern Africa, particularly the borders of Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Sudan, Somalia, Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania, focus on opportunities, highlight the agency of the borderlanders, and acknowledge the permeabilitybut consequentiality of the borders. DEREJE FEYISSA, Max Planck Institute of Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany; MARKUS VIRGIL HOEHNE, Max Planck Institute of Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany.

Africa and the International System - The Politics of State Survival (Paperback): Christopher Clapham Africa and the International System - The Politics of State Survival (Paperback)
Christopher Clapham
R952 Discovery Miles 9 520 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

African independence launched into international politics a group of the world's poorest, weakest and most artificial states. How have such states managed to survive? To what extent is their survival now threatened? Christopher Clapham shows how an initially supportive international environment has become increasingly threatening to African rulers and the states over which they preside. The author reveals how international conventions designed to uphold state sovereignty have often been appropriated and subverted by rulers to enhance their domestic control, and how African states have been undermined by guerrilla insurgencies and the use of international relations to serve essentially private ends.

The Horn of Africa - State Formation and Decay (Paperback): Christopher Clapham The Horn of Africa - State Formation and Decay (Paperback)
Christopher Clapham
R510 R398 Discovery Miles 3 980 Save R112 (22%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Why is the Horn such a distinctive part of Africa? This book, by one of the foremost scholars of the region, traces this question through its exceptional history and also probes the wildly divergent fates of the Horn's contemporary nation-states, despite the striking regional particularity inherited from the colonial past. Christopher Clapham explores how the Horn's peculiar topography gave rise to the Ethiopian empire, the sole African state not only to survive European colonialism, but also to participate in a colonial enterprise of its own. Its impact on its neighbours, present-day Djibouti, Eritrea, Somalia and Somaliland, created a region very different from that of post-colonial Africa. This dynamic has become all the more distinct since 1991, when Eritrea and Somaliland emerged from the break-up of both Ethiopia and Somalia. Yet this evolution has produced highly varied outcomes in the region's constituent countries, from state collapse (and deeply flawed reconstruction) in Somalia, through militarised isolation in Eritrea, to a still fragile 'developmental state' in Ethiopia. The tensions implicit in the process of state formation now drive the relationships between the once historically close nations of the Horn.

African Guerrillas (Paperback): Christopher Clapham African Guerrillas (Paperback)
Christopher Clapham
R730 R658 Discovery Miles 6 580 Save R72 (10%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Analyses African insurgencies and their relationship to the societies in which they are set and to the outside world. Insurgencies or guerrilla movements have come to occupy a prominent place in the politics of modern Africa. At one time they could be regarded as the means by which Africans fought for independence against colonial or white minority regimes which refused to concede it peacefully, but in the late-20th century they have become an important source of organized opposition to incumbent African governments. In some cases they have ousted those governments and established new regimes in their place; in other cases they have prompted state collapse. This collection of articles and case studies is written by contributors with a long-term direct contact with the insurgencies they describe. They analyze the relationship between insurgencies and the local societies in which they are set, the organizational principles upon which the insurgencies are based, and the relationship between the insurgencies and the widerworld. North America: Indiana U Press; Uganda: Fountain Publishers

The Political Dilemmas of Military Regimes (Book): Christopher Clapham The Political Dilemmas of Military Regimes (Book)
Christopher Clapham
R1,244 Discovery Miles 12 440 Out of stock
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