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Philip Roessler - Ethnic Politics and State Power in Africa, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

Ethnic Politics and State Power in Africa

The Logic of the Coup-Civil War Trap

Av Philip Roessler

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Why are some African countries trapped in vicious cycles of ethnic exclusion and civil war, while others experience relative peace? In this groundbreaking book, Philip Roessler addresses this question. Roessler models Africa's weak, ethnically-divided states as confronting rulers with a coup-civil war trap - sharing power with ethnic rivals is necessary to underwrite societal peace and prevent civil war, but increases rivals' capabilities to seize sovereign power in a coup d'état. How rulers respond to this strategic trade-off is shown to be a function of their country's ethnic geography and the distribution of threat capabilities it produces. Moving between in-depth case studies of Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo based on years of field work and statistical analyses of powersharing, coups and civil war across sub-Saharan Africa, the book serves as an exemplar of the benefits of mixed methods research for theory-building and testing in comparative politics.
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2016-12-15
  • Mått: 158 x 236 x 28 mm
  • Vikt: 690 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 418
  • Förlag: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 9781107176072
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Philip Roessler is an Assistant Professor of Government and Director of the Center for African Development at the College of William and Mary, Virginia. He is an expert on conflict, state building, and development in sub-Saharan Africa with extensive field experience across the region. His book builds on his 2011 World Politics article, 'The Enemy Within', which won the Gregory Luebbert Award from the American Political Science Association for the best article in comparative politics. He is also author of Why Comrades Go to War: Liberation Politics and the Outbreak of Africa's Deadliest Conflict (with Harry Verhoeven, forthcoming).

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'This is the best book on civil war I have read in quite a while. Drawing on first-rate, relatively traditional 'shoe leather' fieldwork, Roessler makes a genuine theoretical breakthrough in how to understand civil war onset in many developing countries.' James D. Fearon, Theodore and Frances Geballe Professor, School of Humanities and Sciences, Stanford University

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