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State failure in sub-Saharan Africa : the crisis of post-colonial order /

How should failed states in Africa be understood? Catherine Scott here critically engages with the concept of state failure and provides an historical reinterpretation. She shows that, although the concept emerged in the context of the post-Cold War new world order, the phenomenon has been attendant...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Scott, Catherine (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : I.B. Tauris, 2017.
Colección:International library of African studies ; v. 55.
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520 |a How should failed states in Africa be understood? Catherine Scott here critically engages with the concept of state failure and provides an historical reinterpretation. She shows that, although the concept emerged in the context of the post-Cold War new world order, the phenomenon has been attendant throughout (and even before) the development of the Westphalian state system. Contemporary failed states, however, differ from their historical counterparts in one fundamental respect: they fail within their existing borders and continue to be recognised as something that they are not. This peculiarity derives from international norms instituted in the era of decolonisation, which resulted in the inviolability of state borders and the supposed universality of statehood. Scott argues that contemporary failed states are, in fact, failed post-colonies. Thus understood, state failure is less the failure of existing states and more the failed rooting and institutionalisation of imported and reified models of Western statehood. Drawing on insights from the histories of Uganda and Burundi, from pre-colonial polity formation to the present day, she explores why and how there have been failures to create effective and legitimate national states within the bounds of inherited colonial jurisdictions on much of the African continent. 
505 0 |a Introduction: Genealogies of state failure -- A new world in the mourning -- Bringing history back in -- Analytically inducting state failure(s) in Africa -- Part 1. The failings of the failed state 'thesis' -- Introduction -- An elusive concept -- Failure and collapse: siblings or synonyms -- What's in a name? -- Square pegs into round holes -- Whither the failed state? -- Conclusion -- Part 2. The state and its failure in sub-Saharan Africa -- Introduction -- The weak basis of quasi-statehood -- Cold War adventurism and its end -- Sins of omission and commission -- The violent creation of (a new) order -- Conclusion -- Part 3. Burundi: the freezing of a failed kingdom -- Introduction -- Tales of the Barundi and their kingdom -- The scramble for the 'sick man' of Africa -- Belgian Gerrymandering and the fight for the Burundi state -- The anti-revolutionist state -- The shadow of genocide -- A new Burundi or the shadow recast -- Conclusion -- Part 4. Uganda: a foundational failure and post-colonial revival -- Introduction -- From Buganda to Uganda -- Colonial contradiction and the (non- )making of Uganda -- The unravelling of the post-colony -- The post-colony brutalised -- 'It was better under Amin' -- 'Fundamental change' or 'no change' -- Conclusion -- Concluding reflections -- Myths of state failure -- Histories of state failure -- New beginnings and alternative futures. 
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