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Africa and the International System

Paperback • 1996 • English

Africa and the International System

By Christopher Clapham

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About the book

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 - as a result partly of political and economic mismanagement within African states themselves, partly of global developments over which they had no control - become increasingly threatening to Africa...Show more

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ISBN

9780521576680

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published year

1996

Language

English

Original title

Africa and the International System

Format

Paperback

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