States and Power in Africa : : Comparative Lessons in Authority and Control - Second Edition / / Jeffrey Herbst.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Herbst, Jeffrey,
• TeilnehmendeR: Herbst, Jeffrey.
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: Second edition with a New Preface
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Studies in International History and Politics ; 149
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (312 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Illustrations --; Preface to the New Paperback Edition --; Introduction --; Part One. THE CHALLENGE OF STATE-BUILDING IN AFRICA --; One. The Challenge of State-Building in Africa --; Part Two. THE CONSTRUCTION OF STATES IN AFRICA --; Two. Power and Space in Precolonial Africa --; Three. The Europeans and the African Problem --; Four. The Political Kingdom in Independent Africa --; Part Three. NATIONAL DESIGN AND DOMESTIC POLITICS --; Five. National Design and the Broadcasting of Power --; Six. Chiefs, States, and the Land --; Part Four. BOUNDARIES AND POWER --; Seven. The Coin of the African Realm --; Eight. The Politics of Migration and Citizenship --; Part Five. CONCLUSION --; Nine. The Past and the Future of State Power in Africa Revised for the New Paperback Edition --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781400852321; 9783110665925
• DOI: 10.1515/9781400852321
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Jeffrey Herbst.

Theories 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 European penetration of the continent-is sure to provoke controversy, for it runs counter to the prevailing assumption that colonialism changed everything.This revised edition includes a new preface in which the author links the enormous changes that have taken place in Africa over the past fifteen years to long-term state consolidation. The final chapter on policy prescriptions has also been revised to reflect the evolution of African and international responses to state failure.