States and Power in Africa: Comparative Lessons in Authority and Control - Second Edition Rita M. Gardner Author: Cass

Author: Cass

Publisher: Sanctuary Kingdom Keys

Themes: connection to place

the internationally acclaimed author of the Man Booker Prize finalist The Electric Michelangelo

States and Power in Africa: Comparative Lessons in Authority and Control - Second Edition Rita M. Gardner Author: CassTheories of international relations, assumed to be universally applicable, have failed to explain the creation of states in Africa. There, the interaction of power and space is dramatically different from what occurred in Europe. In States and Power in Africa, Jeffrey Herbst places the African state building process in a truly comparative perspective. Herbst's bold contention that the conditions now facing African state builders existed long before