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State Failure in Sub-Saharan Africa The Crisis of Post-Colonial Order

State Failure in Sub-Saharan Africa The Crisis of Post-Colonial Order

Scott, Catherine

Hardcover

Series: International Library of African Studies

African HistoryGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 1784539651
ISBN13: 9781784539658
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Aug 30 2017
Pages: 320
Weight: 1.20
Height: 1.30 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.60
Language: English

How should failed states in Africa be understood? Catherine Scott here critically engages with the concept of state failure and provides an historical reinterpretation. She shows that, although the concept emerged in the context of the post-Cold War new world order, the phenomenon has been attendant throughout (and even before) the development of the Westphalian state system. Contemporary failed states, however, differ from their historical counterparts in one fundamental respect: they fail within their existing borders and continue to be recognised as something that they are not. This peculiarity derives from international norms instituted in the era of decolonisation, which resulted in the inviolability of state borders and the supposed universality of statehood. Scott argues that contemporary failed states are, in fact, failed post-colonies. Thus understood, state failure is less the failure of existing states and more the failed rooting and institutionalisation of imported and reified models of Western statehood.

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