| Africa and the International System: The Politics of State Survival Contributor(s): Clapham, Christopher (Author) |
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ISBN: 052157207X ISBN-13: 9780521572071 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $107.35 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 1996 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | International Relations - General |
| Dewey: 327.096 |
| LCCN: 96003882 |
| Series: Cambridge Monographs on Applied and Computational Mathematics |
| Physical Information: 0.94" H x 6" W x 9" (1.52 lbs) 356 pages |