FREE delivery to all EXCLUSIVE BOOKS stores nationwide. FREE delivery to your door on all orders over R450. Excludes all international deliveries.

Africa and the International System

Christopher Clapham
    Product form
      FORMAT: Hardback

      R 4,667.94 Price and availability exclusive to website

      YOU COULD EARN 4,667.94 FUTURE RETAIL DISCOUNTS.
      ESTIMATED DELIVERY: Approx. 10 - 15 Business Days
      BUY NOW PAY LATER
      From R 777.99 per month!
      3x monthly payments of R 1,555.98 with
      4x fortnightly payments of R 1,166.98 with
      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 African rulers and the states over which they preside. The author also 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. He shows how awkward, how ambiguous, how unsatisfactory, and often how tragic, has been the encounter between Africa and Western conceptions of statehood.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Christopher Clapham EAN: 9780521572071 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 653 g HEIGHT: 235 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Cambridge University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 1996-09-12 CITY: GENRE: POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General WIDTH: 157 cm SPINE:

      Book Themes:

      Africa, International relations

      Customer Reviews

      Be the first to write a review
      0%
      (0)
      0%
      (0)
      0%
      (0)
      0%
      (0)
      0%
      (0)
      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 African rulers and the states over which they preside. The author also 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. He shows how awkward, how ambiguous, how unsatisfactory, and often how tragic, has been the encounter between Africa and Western conceptions of statehood.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Christopher Clapham EAN: 9780521572071 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 653 g HEIGHT: 235 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Cambridge University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 1996-09-12 CITY: GENRE: POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General WIDTH: 157 cm SPINE:

      Book Themes:

      Africa, International relations

      Customer Reviews

      Be the first to write a review
      0%
      (0)
      0%
      (0)
      0%
      (0)
      0%
      (0)
      0%
      (0)

      Recently viewed products

      Login

      Forgot your password?

      Don't have an account yet?
      Create account