The Real Politics of the Horn of Africa
Money, War and the Business of Power
Seiten
2015
Polity Press (Verlag)
978-0-7456-9557-0 (ISBN)
Polity Press (Verlag)
978-0-7456-9557-0 (ISBN)
The Real Politics of the Horn of Africa delves into the business of politics in the turbulent, war-torn countries of north-east Africa. It is a contemporary history of how politicians, generals and insurgents bargain over money and power, and use of war to achieve their goals.
Drawing on a thirty-year career in Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea and Somalia, including experience as a participant in high-level peace talks, Alex de Waal provides a unique and compelling account of how these countries’ leaders run their governments, conduct their business, fight their wars and, occasionally, make peace. De Waal shows how leaders operate on a business model, securing funds for their ‘political budgets’ which they use to rent the provisional allegiances of army officers, militia commanders, tribal chiefs and party officials at the going rate. This political marketplace is eroding the institutions of government and reversing statebuildingÑand it is fuelled in large part by oil exports, aid funds and western military assistance for counter-terrorism and peacekeeping.
The Real Politics of the Horn of Africa is a sharp and disturbing book with profound implications for international relations, development and peacemaking in the Horn of Africa and beyond.
Drawing on a thirty-year career in Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea and Somalia, including experience as a participant in high-level peace talks, Alex de Waal provides a unique and compelling account of how these countries’ leaders run their governments, conduct their business, fight their wars and, occasionally, make peace. De Waal shows how leaders operate on a business model, securing funds for their ‘political budgets’ which they use to rent the provisional allegiances of army officers, militia commanders, tribal chiefs and party officials at the going rate. This political marketplace is eroding the institutions of government and reversing statebuildingÑand it is fuelled in large part by oil exports, aid funds and western military assistance for counter-terrorism and peacekeeping.
The Real Politics of the Horn of Africa is a sharp and disturbing book with profound implications for international relations, development and peacemaking in the Horn of Africa and beyond.
ALEX DE WAAL is Executive Director of the World Peace Foundation and a Research Professor at The Fletcher School, Tuft�s University.
Introduction: Observing the business of power
The Political Marketplace: Politics is Business and Business is Politics
The Horn of Africa: Subcontinental war in three acts
Darfur: The auction of loyalties
Sudan: Managing the unmanageable
South Sudan: The boom and bust of a speculative bubble
Somalia: A post-apocalypse workshop
Somaliland: A business-social contract
Eritrea: A museum of modernism
Ethiopia: Is state-building still possible?
Transnational Patronage: Shadow globalization and the regional marketplace
The Politics of Ideas: Perplexed intellectuals and policymakers
| Verlagsort | Oxford |
|---|---|
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 160 x 236 mm |
| Gewicht | 544 g |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Völkerkunde (Naturvölker) |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| Wirtschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-7456-9557-4 / 0745695574 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-7456-9557-0 / 9780745695570 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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