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Product Description: Conflict over natural resources has made Africa the focus of international attention, particularly during the last decade. From oil in Nigeria and diamonds in the Democratic Republic of Congo, to land in Zimbabwe and water in the Horn of Africa, the politics surrounding ownership, management, and control of natural resources has disrupted communities and increased external intervention in these countries...read more
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9781580462679 | Univ of Rochester Pr, September 12, 2007, cover price $90.00
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9781580465427 | Reissue edition (Univ of Rochester Pr, July 1, 2015), cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Conflict over natural resources has made Africa the focus of international attention, particularly during the last decade.
In 1980, the newly independent and democratic Zimbabwe was a beacon of hope in a troubled region. Three decades later, Zimbabwe became the focus of international attention for very different reasons: acrimonious racial relations, controversial elections, economic hardship, and military intervention in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Mugabe and the Politics of Security in Zimbabwe argues that this unfortunate transition is intrinsically linked to the ways in which President Robert Mugabe used the politics of domestic and external security for his own gain. Abiodun Alao presents a comprehensive study of defense institutions, domestic security policy, and external use of military force during Mugabe's decades of rule. He identifies the role of personality in security and explains how the machinations of a self-perpetuating ruler shaped the economic and political dynamics of the struggling nation. He also provides analytical perspectives on Mugabe's transformations from a freedom fighter to a stable president of a relatively economically strong, independent country, and finally to an imprudent autocrat and international pariah. Nuanced, impassioned, and timely, Mugabe and the Politics of Security in Zimbabwe sheds new light on the effects of national security policy and develops a clear picture of the country's past, present, and future.
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9780773540439 | McGill Queens Univ Pr, October 16, 2012, cover price $110.00 | About this edition: In 1980, the newly independent and democratic Zimbabwe was a beacon of hope in a troubled region.
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9780773540446 | McGill Queens Univ Pr, October 16, 2012, cover price $32.95
Product Description: Osprey's study of the Mau Mau Rebellion (1952-1960) in Kenya and its fighters. The Mau Mau Freedom Fighters waged a guerrilla war for eight years against their British colonial rulers, which became known as the Mau Mau Uprising. The Mau Mau sought to win back their land and independence...read more
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9781846030246 | Osprey Pub Co, August 29, 2006, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Osprey's study of the Mau Mau Rebellion (1952-1960) in Kenya and its fighters.
Product Description: When the international community responds to a massive humanitarian emergency, such as the one in Liberia, the operation that results is both complicated and ephemeral. The multifaceted nature of the problems in the crisis area attracts many different responses ranging from the deployment of thousands of international troops and observers to groups of civilians who act locally...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9789280810318 | United Nations Univ, February 1, 2000, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: When the international community responds to a massive humanitarian emergency, such as the one in Liberia, the operation that results is both complicated and ephemeral.
Product Description: Although it is widely recognized that Africa's security problems are acute, it has never been a subject of much intellectual inquiry. This lack of scholarly discourse on the many dimensions of the problem of African security is the major consideration for this book...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780865436503 | Africa World Pr, April 1, 1998, cover price $79.95 | About this edition: Although it is widely recognized that Africa's security problems are acute, it has never been a subject of much intellectual inquiry.
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9780865436510 | Africa World Pr, April 1, 1998, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Although it is widely recognized that Africa's security problems are acute, it has never been a subject of much intellectual inquiry.
Product Description: The book is the first to discuss in detail the extensive external involvement in the Liberian civil war, a war that claimed up to 200,000 lives, created a massive refuge crisis and brought West Africa to the tribunal of international attention...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9781840143188 | Ashgate Pub Ltd, April 1, 1998, cover price $149.95 | About this edition: The book is the first to discuss in detail the extensive external involvement in the Liberian civil war, a war that claimed up to 200,000 lives, created a massive refuge crisis and brought West Africa to the tribunal of international attention.
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9781850438168 | Tauris Academic Studies, December 15, 1994, cover price $120.00
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