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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. This book places the African state-building process in a truly comparative perspective. Its 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 ... More
Keywords: international relations, states, state-building, Africa, power, space, colonialism, policy, state failure, Europe
Print publication date: 2014 | Print ISBN-13: 9780691164137 |
Published to Princeton Scholarship Online: October 2017 | DOI:10.23943/princeton/9780691164137.001.0001 |
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