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Africa and the International System: The Politics of State Survival

Africa and the International System: The Politics of State Survival

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Series: Cambridge Studies in International Relations, Book 50

General World HistoryInternational Relations

ISBN10: 0521576687
ISBN13: 9780521576680
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Sep 12 1996
Pages: 356
Weight: 1.14
Height: 0.91 Width: 5.71 Depth: 9.33
Language: English
African independence launched into international politics a group of the world's poorest, weakest and most artificial states. How have such states managed to survive? To what extent is their survival now threatened? Christopher Clapham shows how an initially supportive international environment has become increasingly threatening to African rulers and the states over which they preside. The author reveals how international conventions designed to uphold state sovereignty have often been appropriated and subverted by rulers to enhance their domestic control, and how African states have been undermined by guerrilla insurgencies and the use of international relations to serve essentially private ends.

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