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Ethnic Politics and State Power in Africa
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 419

Ethnic Politics and State Power in Africa

This book models the trade-off that rulers of weak, ethnically-divided states face between coups and civil war. Drawing evidence from extensive field research in Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo combined with statistical analysis of most African countries, it develops a framework to understand the causes of state failure.

Why Comrades Go to War
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 519

Why Comrades Go to War

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016
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  • Publisher: Unknown

An account of the AFDL's rise in 1996, crushing the dictatorship within Zaire/Congo and their subsequent collapse only months later as the Pan-Africanist alliance fell apart

The Paradox of Traditional Chiefs in Democratic Africa
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 261

The Paradox of Traditional Chiefs in Democratic Africa

This book shows that powerful hereditary chiefs do not undermine democracy in Africa but, on some level, facilitate it.

Routledge Handbook of African Politics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 456

Routledge Handbook of African Politics

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2017-07-05
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Providing a comprehensive and cutting edge examination of this important continent, Routledge Handbook of African Politics surveys the key debates and controversies, dealing with each of the major issues to be found in Africa’s politics today. Structured into 6 broad areas, the handbook features over 30 contributions focused around: The State Identity Conflict Democracy and Electoral Politics Political Economy & Development International Relations Each chapter deals with a specific topic, providing an overview of the main arguments and theories and explaining the empirical evidence that they are based on, drawing on high-profile cases such as the Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Nigeria, Somalia, South Africa, Rwanda and Zimbabwe. The Handbook also contains new contributions on a wide range of topical issues, including terrorism, the growing influence of China, civil war, and transitional justice, making it required reading for non-specialists and experts alike. Featuring both established scholars and emerging researchers, this is a vital resource for all students of African Studies, democratization, conflict resolution and Third World politics.

The Value of Privacy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 350

The Value of Privacy

This new book by Beate Rössler is a work of real quality and originality on an extremely topical issue: the issue of privacy and the relations between the private and the public. Rössler investigates the reasons why we value privacy and why we ought to value it. In the context of modern, liberal societies, Rössler develops a theory of the private which links privacy and autonomy in a constitutive way: privacy is a necessary condition to lead an autonomous life. The book develops a theory of freedom and autonomy which sees the ability to pose the “practical question” of how one wants to live, of what a person strives to be, at the centre of the modern idea of autonomy. The question of privacy is emerging as an increasingly important topic in social and political theory and is central to many current debates in law, the media and politics. The Value of Privacy will be widely recognised to be a classic contribution to the subject.

Twenty-first-century Peace Operations
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 706

Twenty-first-century Peace Operations

  • Categories: Law

This superbly edited volume addresses the question of what has been accomplished and what lessons have been learned from ten years of peace operations in post-conflict societies.

Philosophizing Brecht
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 216

Philosophizing Brecht

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019-05-20
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  • Publisher: BRILL

This anthology unites scholars from varied backgrounds with the notion that the theories and artistic productions of Bertolt Brecht are key missing links in bridging diverse discourses in social philosophy, theatre, consciousness studies, and aesthetics. It offers readers interdisciplinary perspectives that create unique dialogues between Brecht and important thinkers such as Althusser, Anders, Bakhtin, Benjamin, Godard, Marx, and Plato. While exploring salient topics such as consciousness, courage, ethics, political aesthetics, and representations of race and the body, it penetrates the philosophical Brecht seeing in him the never-ending dialectic—the idea, the theory, the narrative, the character that is never foreclosed. This book is an essential read for all those interested in Brecht as a socio-cultural theorist and for theatre practitioners. Contributors: Kevin S. Amidon, José María Durán, Felix J. Fuch, Philip Glahn, Jim Grilli, Wolfgang Fritz Haug, Norman Roessler, Jeremy Spencer, Anthony Squiers, Peter Zazzali.

Political Leadership in Africa
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 393

Political Leadership in Africa

An innovative analysis of political leadership in Africa between 1960 and 2018, drawing on an entirely new dataset.

The Yoruba from Prehistory to the Present
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 519

The Yoruba from Prehistory to the Present

A rich and accessible account of Yoruba history, society and culture from the pre-colonial period to the present.