Title:	Africa and the internationalsystem The politics of state survival
Authors:	Clapham, Christopher Smith, Steve Steve Smith
Keywords:	international system
Issue Date:	2000
Publisher:	CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Description:	African independence launched into international politics a group of the world's poorest, weakest and most artificial states. How have such states managed to survive? To what extent is their survival now threatened? Christopher Clapham shows how an initially supportive international environment has - as a result partly of political and economic mismanagement within African states themselves, partly of global developments over which they had no control - became increasingly threatening to African rulers and the states over which they preside. The author also reveals how international conventions designed to uphold state sovereignty have often been appropriated and subverted by rulers to enhance their domestic control, and how African states have been undermined by guerrilla insurgencies and the use
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/58014
ISBN:	0 521 57668 7
Appears in Collections:	Education Planning & Management(EDPM)

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