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Political Parties in Africa
This book examines the effects of ethnicity on party politics in ten African countries. Sebastian Elischer finds that five party types exist: the mono-ethnic, the ethnic alliance, the catch-all, the programmatic, and the personalistic party. He uses these party types to show that the African political landscape is considerably more diverse than conventionally assumed.
Salafism and Political Order in Africa
Violent Islamic extremism is affecting a growing number of countries in sub-Saharan Africa. In some, jihadi Salafi organizations have established home bases and turned into permanent security challengers. However, other countries have managed to prevent the formation or curb the spread of homegrown jihadi Salafi organizations. In this book, Sebastian Elischer provides a comparative analysis of how different West and East African states have engaged with fundamentalist Muslim groups between the 1950s and today. In doing so, he establishes a causal link between state-imposed organizational gatekeepers in the Islamic sphere and the absence of homegrown jihadi Salafism. Illustrating that the contemporary manifestation of violent Islamic extremism in sub-Saharan Africa is an outcome of strategic political decisions that are deeply embedded in countries' autocratic pasts, he challenges conventional notions of statehood on the African continent, and provides new insight into the evolving relationships between secular and religious authority.
The Routledge Handbook of Civil-military Relations
The Routledge Handbook of Civil-Military Relations not only fills this important lacuna, but offers an up-to-date comparative analysis which identifies three essential components in civil-military relations: (1) democratic civilian control; (2) operational effectiveness; and (3) the efficiency of the security institutions. This Handbook will be essential reading for students and practitioners in the fields of civil-military relations.
Escalation and Negotiation in International Conflicts
This volume examines the point where the concepts and practices of escalation and negotiation meet.
Performing Power in Nigeria
A fresh and interdisciplinary study of faith and social culture in Nigeria, Abimbola A. Adelakun uses extensive archival material, interviews and fieldwork to explore how Nigerian Pentecostals use performance to mark their self-distinction as a people of power. Available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Why Do Elections Matter in Africa?
A radical new approach to understanding Africa's elections: explaining why politicians, bureaucrats and voters so frequently break electoral rules.
The Wealth and Poverty of African States
A new account of economic performance and state development in African countries across the long twentieth century.
Jihadists of North Africa and the Sahel
Offers unique insights into the inner workings of jihadist organisations over the past three decades in North Africa and the Sahel.
The Oxford Handbook of the African Sahel
This Handbook provides a multidimensional and interdisciplinary assessment of the West African Sahel region in all of its complexity.
Party Politics and Economic Reform in Africa's Democracies
Argues that the interaction of formal institutions and the quality of democracy explain patterns of private sector development across Africa.
