STATES AND POWER IN AFRICA / COMPARATIVE LESSONS IN AUTHORITY AND CONTROL

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, Jef frey Herbst places the African state-building process in a truly comparative perspective. Herbst's bold contention--that the conditi ons now facing African state-builders existed long before European penetration of the continent--is sure to provoke controversy, for it runs ...[Read more]