States and Power in Africa: Comparative Lessons in Authority and Control by Jeffrey Herbst

States and Power in Africa: Comparative Lessons in Authority and Control

Jeffrey Herbst

296 pages • first pub 2000 (editions)

nonfiction history politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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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. In his groundbrea...

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