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This book focuses on the 'new globalization', the most expansive and technologically advanced of all the phases of globalization. It identifies and discusses many of the frontier issues in Africa that are being impacted by the dynamics of this new globalization - debt, human rights, development, state sovereignty, the environment, and the HIV/AIDS pandemic.

This detailed analysis, with an overview of theoretical models, presents Liberia's failure in state-building from its founding as a colony, through its development as a settler state, to its emergence as a sovereign commonwealth, and its evolution into a peripheral capitalist state. The author carefully evaluates internal and external factors that caused state failure and the state collapse and re-collapse marked by the country's two civil war...

This detailed analysis, with an overview of theoretical models, presents Liberia's failure in state-building from its founding as a colony, through its development as a settler state, to its emergence as a sovereign commonwealth, and its evolution into a peripheral capitalist state. The author carefully evaluates internal and external factors that caused state failure and the state collapse and re-collapse marked by the country's two civil war...

This book challenges the dominant view that the first Liberian civil war was caused by ethno-cultural antagonisms between and among the country's various ethnic groups. Alternatively, the book argues that the war was the consequence of the multifaceted crises of underdevelopment - cultural, economic, political, and social - generated by the neo-colonial Liberian State.

Torn by ongoing civil and military violence, Africa presents a challenge to scholars interested in the root causes of conflict. Each conflict is unique, but overall they exhibit common patterns. The contributors of this book employ an eclectic array of current explanations of civil strife and how to resolve it. The first half of the book provides the relevant theoretical background. Theories of conflict and conflict resolution, the larger cont...

Various arguments have been proffered to explain the dynamics of African state failure and collapse. However, the literature on state reconstitution is inchoate and minimal. This edited volume focuses on prescriptions for reconstituting the post-colonial state in Africa. Essays on nine African states (Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, and Uganda) are preceded by an int...

This book focuses on the 'new globalization', the most expansive and technologically advanced of all the phases of globalization. It identifies and discusses many of the frontier issues in Africa that are being impacted by the dynamics of this new globalization - debt, human rights, development, state sovereignty, the environment, and the HIV/AIDS pandemic.