When Things Fell Apart: State Failure in Late-Century Africa (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics) | 
| Author: Robert H. Bates
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Pages: 216
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ISBN: 0521715253
Dewey Decimal Number: 321.09
EAN: 9780521715256
ASIN: 0521715253
Publication Date: February 18, 2008
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Product Description
In the later decades of the 20th century, Africa plunged into political chaos. States failed, governments became predators, and citizens took up arms. In When Things Fell Apart, Robert H. Bates advances an explanation of state failure in Africa. In so doing, he not only plumbs the depths of the continent's late-century tragedy, but also the logic of political order and the foundations of the state. This book covers a wide range of territory by drawing on materials from Rwanda, Sudan, Liberia, and Congo. Written to be accessible to the general reader, it is nonetheless a must-read for scholars and policy makers concerned with political conflict and state failure.
Book Description
In When Things Fell Apart, Robert H. Bates addresses the origins of state failure in Africa in the late decades of the twentieth century. Bates plumbs the depths of the continent's late-century tragedy, the logic of political order, and the foundations of the state for explanations for these tragedies.
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