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States and Power in Africa

Paperback • 2014 • 1. edition

States and Power in Africa

By Jeffrey Herbst

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Theories of international relations, assumed to be universally applicable, have failed to explain the creation of states in Africa. There, the interaction of power and space is dramatically different from what occurred in Europe. In States and Power in Africa, Jeffrey Herbst places the African state-building process in a truly comparative perspective. Herbst's bold contention--that the conditions now facing African state-builders existed long before European penetration of the continent--is sure...Show more

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9780691164144

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Published year

2014

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