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Mauritania's Colonels

Author : Boubacar N’Diaye
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351671421
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book Mauritania's Colonels written by Boubacar N’Diaye and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-08-07 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, the result of more than a decade of research, focuses on the socio-political dynamics and civil-military relations in a little studied country: Mauritania, located in the troubled North-western part of Africa. Boubacar N’Diaye brings into light the political evolution of this country which holds lessons for African politics, and could affect the future of the West African sub-region. Mauritania’s Colonels examines the personalities and policy of five military officers turned heads of state who ruled Mauritania for nearly forty years. After comparing and contrasting the personal traits, social origins, itineraries, and evolution as military officers, it critically evaluates the policies they enacted to address four key challenges their country faces. These are, namely, the difficult cohabitation between the country’s ethno-cultural communities, the illusive democratization and military withdrawal from politics, the judicious management of the country’s abundant natural resources to meet the socioeconomic needs of their people, and the prudent conduct of foreign policy given Mauritania’s location, straddling Arab North Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa. Showing the impact that each Colonel has had on the evolution of Mauritania, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of West Africa, African politics, civil-military relations and democratization processes.

Mauritania's Colonels

Author : Boubacar N'Diaye
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781138059481
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (594 download)

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Download or read book Mauritania's Colonels written by Boubacar N'Diaye and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Mauritania's Colonels examines the personalities and policy of five military officers turned heads of state who ruled Mauritania for nearly 40 years." -- from preface.

Mauritania's Campaign of Terror

Author : Janet Fleischman
Publisher : Human Rights Watch
ISBN 13 : 9781564321336
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (213 download)

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Download or read book Mauritania's Campaign of Terror written by Janet Fleischman and published by Human Rights Watch. This book was released on 1994 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Democratization and Military Coups in Africa

Author : George Klay Kieh Jr.
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793643075
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)

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Book Synopsis Democratization and Military Coups in Africa by : George Klay Kieh Jr.

Download or read book Democratization and Military Coups in Africa written by George Klay Kieh Jr. and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-11-04 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Democratization and Military Coups in Africa: Post-1990 Political Conflicts studies the seemingly endless cycle of coups that have occurred in Africa since the “Free Officers Coup” of 1952 in Egypt. Unfortunately, after more than three decades of the “third wave of democratization” that began in the 1990’s, military coups remain a firm figure on the African political landscape. Although the Organization of African Unity (OAU) and its successor, the African Union (AU), have developed and implemented anti-coup norms, they have not deterred coup-makers. Contributors to this volume analyze the major fault lines in the body politics of African states that have created the conditions for coup-making and offer suggestions for ending the cycle of coups. Using countries such as Burkina Faso, Cote d'Ivoire, Egypt, Mauritania, Sierra Leone, and Sudan as case studies, each chapter studies the causes, effects, and evolution of military coups in Africa in order to show that eliminating military coups will require identifying and addressing the root causes of the coup in each affected state.

Historical Dictionary of Mauritania

Author : Anthony G. Pazzanita
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810862654
Total Pages : 649 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Book Synopsis Historical Dictionary of Mauritania by : Anthony G. Pazzanita

Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Mauritania written by Anthony G. Pazzanita and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2008-10-23 with total page 649 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mauritania is bordered by Senegal in the south, Mali in the east, Algeria in the far northeast, and the disputed territory of Western Sahara to the north. Comprised mostly of vast stretches of desert, this young country has escaped the ravages of the violent interstate and civil conflicts that have so bedeviled Africa. Mauritanian society possesses ancient antecedents and a universal religious faith that has been practiced over several centuries. These characteristics have given the country a sometimes fragile but relatively resilient sense of national identity, which has survived into the 21st century in the face of powerful political, regional, ethnic/racial, and tribal rivalries since its independence in 1960. An economy largely centered on the export of raw materials, a weak agricultural sector, and a harsh climate in most areas further add to the challenges confronting all Mauritanians. The third edition of the Historical Dictionary of Mauritania_through its chronology, introductory essay, maps, bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on important persons, places, events, institutions, and significant political, economic, social, and cultural aspects_provides an important reference on Mauritania.

Invoking the Invisible in the Sahara

Author : Erin Pettigrew
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009224573
Total Pages : 685 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Invoking the Invisible in the Sahara written by Erin Pettigrew and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-12-31 with total page 685 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this innovative new history, Erin Pettigrew utilizes invisible forces and entities - esoteric knowledge and spirits - to show how these forms of knowledge and unseen forces have shaped social structures, religious norms, and political power in the Saharan West. Situating this ethnographic history in what became la Mauritanie under French colonial rule and, later the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, Pettigrew traces the changing roles of Muslim spiritual mediators and their Islamic esoteric sciences - known locally as l'ḥjāb - over the long-term history of the region. By exploring the impact of the immaterial in the material world and demonstrating the importance of Islamic esoteric sciences in Saharan societies, she illuminates peoples' enduring reliance upon these sciences in their daily lives and argues for a new approach to historical research that takes the immaterial seriously.

The Oxford Handbook of the African Sahel

Author : Leonardo A. Villalón
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192548913
Total Pages : 816 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the African Sahel written by Leonardo A. Villalón and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-10-15 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long on the margins of both scholarly and policy concerns, the countries of the West African Sahel have recently attracted world attention, primarily as a key battleground in the global 'war on terror'. This book moves beyond this narrow focus, providing a multidimensional and interdisciplinary assessment of the region in all of its complexity. The focus is on the six countries at the heart of the Sahelian geographic space: Senegal, Mauritania, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, and Chad. Collectively, the chapters explore the commonalities and interconnections that link these countries and their fates, while also underscoring their diversity and the variations in their current realities. The Sahel today is at an important crossroads, under multiple pressures of diverse kinds: environmental, political, demographic, and economic, as well as rapidly changing social and religious dynamics. It is also marked by striking dynamism and experimentation, drawing on a long history of innovation and cultural transfer. In many ways the Sahel is today on the cutting edge of grand natural experiments exploring how humans will adapt to climate change, to technological innovation, to the global movement of populations and the restructuring of world politics, to urbanization, social change, and rapid demographic growth, and to inter-religious contact. The region is a weathervane on the front lines of the forces of global change. In nine thematic sections, the chapters in this book offer holistic analyses of the key forces shaping the region. Including scholars based in Africa, Europe, and the United States, the authors represent an exceptional breadth and depth of expertise on the Sahel.

Sahel: 10 Years of Instability

Author : Giovanni Carbone
Publisher : Ledizioni
ISBN 13 : 8855267833
Total Pages : 99 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (552 download)

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Download or read book Sahel: 10 Years of Instability written by Giovanni Carbone and published by Ledizioni. This book was released on 2022-10-25 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten years after the start of the Malian crisis, political and security instability in the Sahel have changed in scale and nature, and spilled over across national frontiers. The border region between Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger has become the new epicentre of insecurity. The comeback of military actors on the political scene, and the support provided by large parts of the population to post-coup military juntas is evidence of poor governance and a severe deterioration in the legitimacy of elected authorities. In this complex scenario, the initiatives of external partners affect regional balances, making the Sahel a major theatre for power competition. How did the crisis evolve over the past decade? What are the main drivers behind local, regional and international dynamics? What prospects for regional stability?

African Military Politics in the Sahel

Author : Katharina P. W. Döring
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009362240
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book African Military Politics in the Sahel written by Katharina P. W. Döring and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-10-31 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyzes the politics around military deployments in the Sahel since 2012 from a critical geopolitics perspective.

Institutional Legacies, Decision Frames and Political Violence in Rwanda and Burundi

Author : Stacey Mitchell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429019092
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Institutional Legacies, Decision Frames and Political Violence in Rwanda and Burundi written by Stacey Mitchell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-09 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rwanda and Burundi are strikingly similar countries that underwent democratization in the early 1990s. In both, resistance to democratic reforms led to coups d’état and presidential assassinations. A conundrum arises in terms of what transpires next. In Rwanda, total genocide was perpetrated by extremist Hutu actors, including government officials, upon the country’s Tutsi and politically moderate Hutu populations. In Burundi the coup d’état failed and instead ushered in a lengthy period of civil war. This divergence in outcome is puzzling given the similarity of these two countries, and it is not adequately explained by studies that address collective violence in each. This book utilizes an integrative approach that facilitates the formation of an explanation that more fully accounts for variation in the type of collective violence that occurred in Rwanda and Burundi. Showing that political actors – during periods of major institutional change – do not all respond to or perceive reform in the exact same manner or in a necessarily rational manner, this book makes an important contribution to the literature on ethnic conflict, collective violence and democratization in Africa.

African Presidential Republics

Author : Jean Blondel
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429639007
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (296 download)

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Download or read book African Presidential Republics written by Jean Blondel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-28 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a systematic assessment of the behaviour of some relatively successful presidents in African presidential republics, examining the part played by presidents in the development of their countries. Using two groups of case studies, African Presidential Republics examines the variations between presidential republics within Africa since decolonisation. Jean Blondel divides the ten countries studied into those in which presidents had always been elected regularly, namely Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia, Senegal and Tanzania, and those in which there was irregularity in the appointment of presidents, namely Benin, Uganda, Ghana, Liberia and Nigeria. The case studies analyse the manner in which presidential republics have manifested themselves in Africa, exploring the argument that the presidential republic is one of the key institutional arrangements likely to lead societies towards development. African Presidential Republics will be of interest to students and scholars of African politics, comparative politics and political leadership.

Islamist Foreign Policy in Sudan

Author : Mohammed H. Sharfi
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351032844
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Islamist Foreign Policy in Sudan written by Mohammed H. Sharfi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-04 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the role played by ideology, internal politics and key figures within Sudan after the 1989 coup, this book analyses policymaking in the Sudanese administration in-depth and studies its effect on international and domestic politics and foreign policy. The military coup undertaken in June 1989 by the Sudanese Islamist movement, known to them as the ‘National Salvation Revolution’, established Sudan as a central actor in the instability of the region. This book explores the foreign policy, international and domestic politics of the new government, from post-coup Sudan to the present day. The intriguing political issues in Sudanese foreign policy during the period pose many questions regarding the dynamics of the government’s domestic and international policymaking. Studying the fragmentation of the Islamist movement into various political bodies, this book examines the role of foreign policy as a contentious point of Sudanese domestic politics. Islamist Foreign Policy in Sudan also looks at the major factors in the relations of Sudan, such as the civil war, terrorism and human rights issues. Islamist Foreign Policy in Sudan will be of interest to students and scholars of international relations, African politics, human rights studies and Islamic studies.

State-building Interventions in Post-Conflict Liberia

Author : Susanne Mulbah
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351711601
Total Pages : 477 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)

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Download or read book State-building Interventions in Post-Conflict Liberia written by Susanne Mulbah and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-27 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Post-conflict Liberia has been subjected to extensive international state-building, at some point hosting the largest and one of the longest UN peacekeeping missions in the world, and inflow of aid that exceeds in multiples the GDP. In order to understand the international state-building efforts in Liberia, it is pertinent to reflect them against the extractive and predatory nature of the Liberian republic, and the central role natural resources exploitation and plantations have played in accommodating transnational interest in the country’s abundant natural resources and fertile land. This book focuses on the political economy of Liberian state-building, and in particular the question of the governance of natural resources. By combining a historical perspective and ethnographic knowledge, the author examines a number of interrelated questions: How was access to the state distributed in Liberian state-building? How are those to be governed and their representation included in political economic decision making, and more particularly, in decisions over natural resources governance? This book will be of interest to students and scholars of state-building, international development, African political science and political economy.

Cultural Capital and Prospects for Democracy in Botswana and Ethiopia

Author : Asafa Jalata
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000008568
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cultural Capital and Prospects for Democracy in Botswana and Ethiopia written by Asafa Jalata and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-16 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on and examines the impact of cultural capital, political economy, social movements, and political consciousness on the potential development of substantive democracy in Botswana and Ethiopia. While explaining the challenges, obstacles, and opportunities for the development of democracy, Cultural Capital and Prospects for Democracy in Botswana and Ethiopia engages in defining democracy as a contested, open, and expanding concept through a comparative and historical examination. The book’s analysis employs interdisciplinary, multidimensional, comparative methods and critical approaches to examine the dynamic interplay among social structures, human agencies, cultural factors, and social movements. This comparative and historical study has required an examination of critical social history that looks at societal issues from the bottom up: specifically critical discourse and the particular world system approach, which deal with long-term and large-scale social changes. Cultural Capital and Prospects for Democracy in Botswana and Ethiopia will be of interest to scholars and students of African politics, political theory, and democratization.

Aid Relations and State Reforms in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Author : Stylianos Moshonas
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351368532
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (513 download)

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Download or read book Aid Relations and State Reforms in the Democratic Republic of the Congo written by Stylianos Moshonas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-06-12 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 2001 The Democratic Republic of Congo has been engaged in a three-fold transition process towards liberalisation, democratisation, and peace. Throughout this process, external actors (donors, international financial institutions, the UN system, aid agencies) have played a leading role, effectively setting the orientations and modalities of this transition, including their institutional dimension. Congolese actors have not been passively subjected to this process, however, but have potently shaped it in various ways. This book investigates the relationship between international aid partners and various Congolese actors since 2001. It examines this relationship as an aspect of the state reform process, with particular reference to the administration. Stylianos Moshonas argues that the pace and nature of reform has been compromised by the contradictions inherent within the process itself, as advocated by international partners, and by the ability of Congolese power holders to accommodate and co-opt such reforms in line with their own political strategies. Rather than framing aid relations as the outcome of the oppositional points of view of donors and Congolese actors, this book presents a systematic focus on the compromises and accommodative characteristics that aid politics have coalesced around, as well as the contradictory positions donors have found themselves in.

South Sudan

Author : Amir Idris
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135166879X
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book South Sudan written by Amir Idris and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-01-19 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: South Sudan: Post-Independence Dilemmas is an interdisciplinary collection of essays which engages with the failure of the newest African State to transition itself successfully to a state and nation after its independence in July 2011. The contributors explore the prospects for new modes of politics capable of simultaneously healing and reconciling the divided communities while moving the country beyond divisive ethnic identities. As they focus on the political, historical, legal, or cultural challenges presented in the process of state formation, the chapters situate South Sudan’s dilemma in its history of political elitism and gender violence, and the role of international actors in order to examine the effects of these factors and the national mechanisms which have attempted to address them. By foregrounding the relationship between the crises of the state and the politics of ethnicity in South Sudan, the book explores new potentialities in finding an alternative pathway redirect and unleash the creative energies and capacities of the peoples in South Sudan for meaningful social and economic development. As such, it will be of interest to scholars of African Politics and State Building.

The Rwenzururu Movement in Uganda

Author : Martin Doornbos
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351708988
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)

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Download or read book The Rwenzururu Movement in Uganda written by Martin Doornbos and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-24 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive account and analysis of the Rwenzururu movement in Western Uganda. The movement began in the 1960s in the Rwenzori region of Toro District, and was a protest by the minority Bakonzo and Baamba ethnic groups against their continued discrimination and incorporation in the Batoro-dominated kingdom-district. In the course of the years this movement experienced various significant transformations, and in the end came to demand recognition of Rwenzururu’s claimed semi-traditional kingship within Uganda. Martin Doornbos illuminates how the Rwenzururu came to life. He documents and analyses the transformations that the movement has undergone, and shows how the Ugandan government responded to, and eventually accepted, the movement while igniting continuing enmity and violence in the process.