Product Description: This work seeks to examine the nature and dynamics of authoritarianism in Africa and to suggest ways in which the states covered in the book can be democratically reconstituted. In 1990, a wave of euphoria greeted the "third wave of democratization" that swept across the African Continent...read more

Product Description: Contributors to this volume highlight the failure and socio-economic and political problems of post-colonial African state and make constructive and convincing suggestions of how the problems can be addressed. They do not argue for the scrapping of the state but its reconstitution in ways that will enable it to be people's-oriented...read more

Product Description: This work has two major objectives. First, it examines the various aspects of the involvement of the military as governors in the politics of African states. Second, it offers some suggestions on ways in which constitutional and political strategies can be used to control the military's recurrent intervention in politics in Africa...read more

Product Description: Written by an outstanding international group of researchers, this volume explores new approaches of dealing with destructive ethnic conflict in the Third World. The collection provides policy makers in Third World countries with practical and effective policy options for dealing with group coexistence in a more sustainable way...read more