The rise and decline of the Zairian state /

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Zaire, apparently strong and stable under President Mobutu in the early 1970s, was bankrupt and discredited by the end of that decade, beset by hyperinflation and mass corruption, the populace forced into abject poverty. Why and how, in a new state strategically located in Central Africa and rich in...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Young, Crawford, 1931-
Otros Autores: Turner, Thomas, 1939-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, [1985]
Colección:UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. History.
Temas:
Mobutu Sese Seko, > 1930-1997.
1960-1997
HISTORY > Africa > Central.
Politics and government
Geschichte
Politik
Congo (Democratic Republic) > Politics and government > 1960-1997.
Congo (République démocratique) > Politique et gouvernement > 1960-1997.
Congo (Democratic Republic)
Demokratische Republik Kongo
Kongo (Demokratische Republik)
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The state in Zaire : an introductory perspective
  • Zaire in the Mobutu years : an overview, 1965-1980
  • The state and civil society : capital, town, and countryside
  • The dynamics of inequality : class formation
  • The ethnic dimension of civil society
  • The patrimonial state and personal rule
  • In pursuit of legitimacy : party and ideology
  • Regional administration
  • The seventh scourge : the security forces
  • Economic policy during the Mobutu years
  • Zairianization and radicalization : anatomy of a disaster
  • Zaire in the international arena
  • Conclusion : crisis of the Zairian state.

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