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Politics of decolonization : Kenya Europeans and the land issue, 1960-1965
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ISBN: 0521208386 9780521208383 9780511759611 9780521100236 0521100232 0511759614 Year: 1976 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Decolonization in the Third World has most often been approached by tracing the ties of nationalist movements to the attainment of independence. This book attempts to revise the perspective. It presents a model of decolonization centring on the idea that the process was shaped by the reaction of colonial interests to the ascendancy of a nationalist elite. Rather than tracing the upward development of a nationalist movement, it traces the downward manipulation of that movement into a colonial system. The study concludes that instead of being a separating step to remove colonial influence, decolonization in more important respects ensured the continuity of the colonial political economy. The book is of interest to scholars, students and others interested in decolonization, white settles, East African affairs and land reform, as well as the general reader following current events in Africa.

Development and decline : the evolution of sociopolitical organization.
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ISBN: 0897890752 Year: 1985 Publisher: Massachusetts Bergin and Garvey

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Sovereign bodies
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ISBN: 0691121192 0691121184 9780691121192 9780691121185 9786612158247 1282158244 1400826691 9781400826698 9781282158245 6612158247 Year: 2005 Publisher: Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press

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9/11 and its aftermath have shown that our ideas about what constitutes sovereign power lag dangerously behind the burgeoning claims to rights and recognition within and across national boundaries. New configurations of sovereignty are at the heart of political and cultural transformations globally. Sovereign Bodies shifts the debate on sovereign power away from territoriality and external recognition of state power, toward the shaping of sovereign power through the exercise of violence over human bodies and populations. In this volume, sovereign power, whether exercised by a nation-state or by a local despotic power or community, is understood and scrutinized as something tentative and unstable whose efficacy depends less on formal rules than on repeated acts of violence. Following the editors' introduction are fourteen essays by leading scholars from around the globe that analyze cultural meanings of sovereign power and violence, as well as practices of citizenship and belonging--in South Africa, Peru, India, Mexico, Cyprus, Norway, and also among transnational Chinese and Indian populations. Sovereign Bodies enriches our understanding of power and sovereignty in the postcolonial world and in "the West" while opening new conceptual fields in the anthropology of politics. The contributors are Ana María Alonso, Lars Buur, Partha Chatterjee, Jean Comaroff and John L. Comaroff, Oivind Fuglerud, Thomas Blom Hansen, Barry Hindess, Steffen Jensen, Achille Mbembe, Aihwa Ong, Finn Stepputat, Simon Turner, Peter van der Veer, and Yael Navaro-Yashin.

States, nations, and the great powers : the sources of regional war and peace
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ISBN: 9780521871228 9780521691611 0521691613 0521871220 9780511491566 9780511342387 0511342381 0511341318 9780511341311 9780511339615 0511339615 9780511342905 051134290X 0511491565 9786611084967 6611084967 1107180244 1281084964 1139132636 0511341857 0511340737 9781107180246 9781281084965 9781139132633 9780511341854 9780511340734 Year: 2007 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Why are some regions prone to war while others remain at peace? What conditions cause regions to move from peace to war and vice versa? This book offers a novel theoretical explanation for the differences and transitions between war and peace. The author distinguishes between 'hot' and 'cold' outcomes, depending on intensity of the war or the peace, and then uses three key concepts (state, nation, and the international system) to argue that it is the specific balance between states and nations in different regions that determines the hot or warm outcomes: the lower the balance, the higher the war proneness of the region, while the higher the balance, the warmer the peace. The theory of regional war and peace developed in this book is examined through case-studies of the post-1945 Middle East, the Balkans and South America in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and post-1945 Western Europe.


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Interfaces empiriques de la mondialisation : African junctions under the neoliberal development paradigm.
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ISBN: 9789081794091 9081794094 Year: 2012 Volume: 173 Publisher: Tervuren Musée royal de l'Afrique centrale

The early state
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ISBN: 3110813327 9783110813326 9027979049 9789027979049 Year: 1978 Volume: 32 Publisher: The Hague ; New York : Mouton Publishers,

Africa : unity, sovereignty, and sorrow.
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ISBN: 9781588266460 9781588266231 1588266230 158826646X 1588264645 9781588264640 9781588264640 Year: 2009 Publisher: Boulder Lynne Rienner

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Explores the endurance of Africa's weak states which, despite their failure to protect and promote the interests of their citizens, translate international sovereignty into domestic legal command.

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