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States and Power in Africa Comparative Lessons in Authority and Control

Paperback • 2000 • English • 1. edition

States and Power in Africa Comparative Lessons in Authority and Control

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 his groundbreaking book, Jeffrey Herbst places the African state-building process in a truly comparative perspective, examining the problem of state consolidation from the precolonial period, through the short but intense interlude of European colonialism, to the mod...Show more

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9780691010281

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Published year

2000

Language

English

Edition

1

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States and Power in Africa Comparative Lessons in Authority and Control

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Paperback

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