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The real politics of the Horn of Africa : money, war and the business of power /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: De Waal, Alex
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity, 2015.
Subjects:
Political culture > Horn of Africa.
Political violence > Horn of Africa.
Political corruption > Horn of Africa.
Horn of Africa > Politics and government.
Political corruption.
Political culture.
Political violence.
Politics and government.
Africa > Horn of Africa.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: observing the business of power
  • The political marketplace: politics is business and business is politics
  • The Horn of Africa: subcontinental war in three acts
  • Darfur: the auction of loyalties
  • Sudan: managing the unmanageable
  • South Sudan: the boom and bust of a speculative bubble
  • Somalia: a post-apocalypse workshop
  • Somaliland: a business-social contract
  • Eritrea: a museum of modernism
  • Ethiopia: is state-building still possible?
  • Transnational patronage: shadow globalization and the regional marketplace
  • The politics of ideas: perplexed intellectuals and policymakers.