Part VI: African international relations -- Part I: Pre-colonial and colonial legacies -- Globalizing Africa? Observations from an inconvenient continent / James Ferguson. The pre-colonial legacy -- The internal African frontier : the making of African political culture / Igor Kopytoff -- The colonial legacy -- The invention of tradition in colonial Africa / Terrence Ranger -- Colonialism and the two publics in Africa : a theoretical statement / Peter P. Ekeh -- On the size and shape of African states / Elliott Green -- Part II: Identity and politics -- Introduction / Kevin Dunn -- Ethnicity -- Explaining ethnic political participation / Nelson Kasfir -- The political salience of cultural difference : why Chewas and Tumbukas are allies in Zambia and adversaries in Malawi / Daniel N. Posner -- Social class -- The nature of class domination in Africa / Richard L. Sklar -- Class formation in the swollen African state / Larry Diamond -- Gender -- Introduction to African feminism / Gwendolyn Mikell -- Religion -- Africa and Christianity on the threshold of the third millennium : the religious dimension / Kwame Bediako -- Men and devils / Stephen Ellis -- Nationalism and Pan-Africanism -- The rise of African nationalism : the case of east and central Africa / Robert I. Rotberg -- I am an African / Thabo Mbeki -- Volume 2 -- Part III: The practice of power -- Introduction / Kevin Dunn -- The post-colonial state -- Provisional notes on the postcolony / Achille Mbembe -- The recurrent crises of the gatekeeper state / Frederick Cooper -- Patronage, clientalism and neopatrimonialism -- Clientelism and prebendal politics / Richard Joseph -- It's our time to "chop" : do elections in Africa feed neo-patrimonialism rather than counteract it? / Staffan I. Lindberg -- Rethinking patrimonialism and neopatrimonialism in Africa / Anne Pitcher, Mary H. Moran, and Michael Johnston -- Society -- Beyond the state : civil society and associational life in Africa / Michael Bratton -- Civil society and public sphere : the new stakeholders / Célestin Monga -- Political regimes : authoritarianism to democracy -- Personal rule : theory and practice in Africa / Robert H. Jackson and Carl G. Rosberg -- Explaining democratic transitions / Michael Bratton and Nicolas van de Walle -- Representations of power / Michael G. Schatzberg -- The distinctive political logic of weak states / William Reno -- Museveni's Uganda in comparative context / Aili Mari Tripp -- Volume 3 -- Part IV: The political economy of stagnation and development -- Introduction / Kevin Dunn -- Historical factors -- Underdevelopment and dependence in Black Africa : origins and contemporary forms / Samir Amin -- Structural factors -- Resource wealth and political regimes in Africa / Nathan Jensen and Leonard Wantchekon -- Societal factors -- The state and economic stagnation in tropical Africa / Richard Sandbrook -- Aid, adjustment and international financial institutions -- The structural adjustment of politics in Africa / Jeffrey Herbst -- Aid and sovereignty : quasi-states and the international financial institutions / David Williams -- The contemporary African state : the politics of distorted incentives / David Leonard and Scott Straus -- Renaissance and renewal? -- How to rebuild Africa / Stephen Ellis -- New African initiative : a preliminary assessment and documentation / Henning Melber -- Volume 4 -- Part V: Conflict and security -- Introduction / Kevin Dunn -- Evolving warfare / William Reno -- War and the state in Africa / Jeffrey Herbst -- African guerrilla politics : raging against the machine? / Morten Bøås and Kevin Dunn -- How "new" are "new wars?" Global economic change and the study of civil war / Mats Berdal -- Bigmanity and network governance in African conflicts / Mats Utas -- Part VI: African international relations -- Introduction / Kevin Dunn -- Understanding Africa's place in world politics / Ian Taylor and Paul Williams -- Why Africa's weak states persist : the empirical and the juridical in statehood / Robert H. Jackson and Carl G. Rosberg -- Globalizing Africa? Observations from an inconvenient continent / James Ferguson.
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