The African affairs reader : key texts in politics, development, and international relations /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Other Authors: Cheeseman, Nic (Editor), Whitfield, Lindsay (Editor), Death, Carl (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; The African Affairs Reader: Key Texts in Politics, Development, and International Relations; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Notes on Contributors; 1: An Introduction to African Affairs and African Studies; The politics of knowledge; The study of Africa; Key themes in African studies; Part I: The African State; 2: An Introduction to the African State; The neopatrimonial state and the interaction of formal and informal institutions; Trajectories among African states and the distribution of power; Foucauldian approaches to everyday practices and the postcolonial state
  • Perspectives on the African state3: The End of the Post-Colonial State in Africa?: Reflections on Changing African Political Dynamics; Legacy of the African colonial state; Anatomy of the post-colonial state; Crisis of the post-colonial state; Reinventing the state; New patterns of civil conflict; Counter currents; Beyond the post-colonial state?; Acknowledgment; 4: Property and Constitutional Order: Land Tenure Reform and the Futureof the African State; Land and state building; Three land tenure reform scenarios; Strengthen communal or community rights
  • Promote capitalist farming-privatization through land registration and titlingSecure the use rights of farmers; Constitutional profiles of alternative land tenure regimes; Communal rights; Private property; User rights; Conclusion; Acknowledgment; 5: Does Organized Crime Exist in Africa?; Understanding crime in Africa; International linkages and global changes; State criminal enterprises and organized crime; The emergence of protection markets; Organized crime and state formation; Conclusion; Acknowledgment; Part II: The Political Economy of Development
  • 6: An Introduction to the Political Economy of DevelopmentDebating the causes of economic decline; The impacts of structural adjustment and good governance; African economic transformation in the twenty-first century; 7: The Politics of Ownership: Tanzanian Coffee Policy in the Age of Liberal Reformism; The restructuring of coffee markets in Tanzania; The politics of ownership in the Tanzanian coffee industry; Understanding coffee politics in Kagera Region; A comparative perspective; Conclusion; Acknowledgment
  • 8: Close Encounters: Chinese Business Networks as Industrial Catalysts in Sub-Saharan AfricaEthnic business networks and industrializationin comparative perspective; Chinese business networks and capitalism in Mauritius; Nnewi: the `Taiwan of Africa;́ Conclusion; Acknowledgment; 9: Developmental Patrimonialism? The Case of Rwanda; Developmental patrimonialism in Africa; Rwanda and the African modal pattern; Management of economic rents: the Tri-Star dimension; Tri-Star as example of long-horizon rent deployment; Horizon and RIG; A developmental neo-patrimonialism?; Acknowledgment