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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Young, Crawford, 1931-
Autres auteurs: Turner, Thomas, 1939-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, [1985]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Mobutu Sese Seko, > 1930-1997.
Politik
Geschichte
Politics and government
HISTORY > Africa > Central.
Kongo (Demokratische Republik)
Demokratische Republik Kongo
Congo (Democratic Republic)
Congo (Republique democratique) > Politique et gouvernement > 1960-1997.
Congo (Democratic Republic) > Politics and government > 1960-1997.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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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