Africa and the International System: The Politics of State Survival (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521576680)

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 become increasingly threatening to African rulers and the states over which they preside. The author 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 of international relations to serve essentially private ends.

Author: Christopher Clapham
ISBN-10: 0521576687
ISBN-13: 9780521576680
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 09/13/1996
Pages: 356
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.14lbs
Size: 9.33h x 5.71w x 0.91d