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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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Africa and the International System, Christopher S. Clapham
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- Released
- 1996
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- Title
- Africa and the International System
- Subtitle
- The Politics of State Survival
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Christopher S. Clapham
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Released
- 1996
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 356
- ISBN10
- 0521576687
- ISBN13
- 9780521576680
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, History, Politics, Africa
- Rating
- 3.55 out of 5
- Description
- 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.