Awards

• Joint winner of Gregory Luebbert Best Book Award, Comparative Politics Section, American Political Science Association 2001 (United States)

Overview

Theories of international relations, assumed to be universally applicable, have failed to explain the creation of states in Africa. There, the interaction of power and space is dramatically different from what occurred in Europe. In States and Power in Africa, Jeffrey Herbst places the African state-building process in a truly comparative perspective. Herbst's bold contention--that the conditions now facing African state-builders existed long before European penetration of the continent--is sure to provoke controversy, for it runs counter to the prevailing assumption that colonialism changed everything. This revised edition includes a new preface in which the author links the enormous changes that have taken place in Africa over the past fifteen years to long-term state consolidation. The final chapter on policy prescriptions has also been revised to reflect the evolution of African and international responses to state failure.

Full Product Details

Author:   Jeffrey Herbst ,  Jeffrey Herbst
Publisher:   Princeton University Press
Imprint:   Princeton University Press
Edition:   Second Edition
Volume:   149
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.397kg
ISBN:  

9780691164144

ISBN 10:   0691164142
Pages:   312
Publication Date:   21 December 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Language:   English

Table of Contents

Preface to the New Paperback Edition xi Introduction 3 PART ONE: THE CHALLENGE OF STATE-BUILDING IN AFRICA 9 1 The Challenge of State-Building in Africa 11 PART TWO: THE CONSTRUCTION OF STATES IN AFRICA 33 2 Power and Space in Precolonial Africa 35 3 The Europeans and the African Problem 58 4 The Political Kingdom in Independent Africa 97 PART THREE: NATIONAL DESIGN AND DOMESTIC POLITICS 137 5 National Design and the Broadcasting of Power 139 6 Chiefs, States, and the Land 173 PART FOUR: BOUNDARIES AND POWER 199 7 The Coin of the African Realm 201 8 The Politics of Migration and Citizenship 227 PART FIVE: CONCLUSION 249 9 The Past and the Future of State Power in Africa, Revised for the New Paperback Edition 251 Index 273

Reviews

Co-Winner of the 2001 Gregory Luebbert Best Book Award, Comparative Politics Section of the American Political Science Association This ambitious and original book turns a comparative historical lens on state-building in Africa... A brave effort to rethink some outdated approaches to fundamental problems. --Foreign Affairs

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Jeffrey Herbst is president of Colgate University.

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