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The real politics of the Horn of Africa : money, war and the business of power / by Alex de Waal.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity, 2015Description: xi, 267 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780745695587 (pbk.) :
  • 9780745695587 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • AFR 306.2096 De 2015 23
LOC classification:
  • DT367.8 .D4 2015
Contents:
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-250) and index.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-250) and index.

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.

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