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African Guerrillas by Christopher Clapham 9780253212436
RRP: €21.41Booksplease Price: €18.66Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
African Guerrillas by Christopher Clapham 9780852558157
RRP: €29.74Booksplease Price: €26.10Analyses African insurgencies and their relationship to the societies in which they are set and to the outside world. Insurgencies or guerrilla movements have come to occupy a prominent place in... -
Third World Politics: An Introduction Christopher Clapham 9780415030038
RRP: €46.40Booksplease Price: €44.20An example introductory textbook on the politics of Third World Countries, this book draws on examples from Latin America, Africa and Asia to analyse their role in the global political economy.About... -
The Political Dilemmas of Military Regimes by Christopher Clapham 9780367705794
RRP: €38.07Booksplease Price: €37.12First published in 1985, The Political Dilemmas of Military Regimes was written against the backdrop of the increased prominence of military intervention in the political process during this century... -
Transformation and Continuity in Revolutionary Ethiopia Christopher Clapham 9780521396509
Booksplease Price: €42.21This pioneering study was first published in 1988. It examines the effects of revolution on one of Africa's largest states. Christopher Clapham traces the continuities between revolutionary Ethiopia... -
The Horn of Africa: State Formation and Decay by Christopher Clapham
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €22.90Why is the Horn such a distinctive part of Africa? This book, by one of the foremost scholars of the region, traces this question through its exceptional history and also probes the wildly divergent... -
Africa and the International System: The Politics of State Survival by Christopher Clapham
Booksplease Price: €42.21African 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... -
The Horn of Africa: State Formation and Decay by Christopher Clapham 9780197692196
Booksplease Price: €37.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780197692196Author Christopher ClaphamFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Impr -
Liberia and Sierra Leone: An Essay in Comparative Politics by Christopher Clapham 9780521099806
Booksplease Price: €42.21Very similar in some ways, but strikingly different in others, Sierra Leone and Liberia have an obvious appeal for comparative analysis. They share the legacy of foundation by immigrants of African... -
Africa and the International System: The Politics of State Survival by Christopher Clapham 9780521572071
Booksplease Price: €85.89African 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... -
African Interventionist States by Roy May
Booksplease Price: €32.40This title was first published in 2002: Examining the recent phenomenon in conflicts in Africa, this text addresses situations where African states and African military intervene in conflicts either... -
African Foreign Policies Stephen Wright 9780813324074
RRP: €65.44Booksplease Price: €61.39This volume of thirteen original essays provides a timely analysis of African foreign policies in a post-Cold War environment where African marginalization from the global economy appears to be... -
A History of Ethiopia by Harold G. Marcus
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €30.00In this eminently readable, concise history of Ethiopia, Harold Marcus surveys the evolution of the oldest African nation from prehistory to the present. For the updated edition, Marcus has written a... -
Warfare in Independent Africa by William Reno
Booksplease Price: €30.50This book surveys the history of armed conflict in Africa in the period since decolonization and independence. The number of post-independence conflicts in Africa has been considerable, and this book... -
Warfare in Independent Africa by William Reno 9780521850452
Booksplease Price: €90.21This book surveys the history of armed conflict in Africa in the period since decolonization and independence. The number of post-independence conflicts in Africa has been considerable, and this book... -
Peace and Conflict in Africa by Professor David J. Francis 9781842779545
Booksplease Price: €43.17Nowhere in the world is the demand for peace more prominent and challenging than in Africa. From state collapse and anarchy in Somalia to protracted wars and rampant corruption in the Congo; from... -
Post-Conflict Institutional Design: Peacebuilding and Democracy in Africa by Abu Bakarr Bah
Booksplease Price: €96.95Since gaining independence from colonial rule, most African countries have been struggling to build democratic and peaceful states. While African multiparty politics may be viewed as a democratic... -
From Guerrillas to Government - The Eritrean People`s Liberation Front by David Pool 9780852558539
Booksplease Price: €38.23Examines the tension and contradictions between the attributes of successful military and political struggle and those needed for governing in the post-independence period. The focus of this book... -
A History of Modern Ethiopia, 1855-1991 - Updated and revised edition by Bahru Zewde
RRP: €32.12Booksplease Price: €30.69Updated and revised edition. Bahru Zewde has updated the first edition, adding a new chapter and taking the history through to 1991. 'The new chapter enhances the value of the book as the... -
When States Fail: Causes and Consequences by Robert I. Rotberg
RRP: €47.60Booksplease Price: €40.88Since 1990, more than 10 million people have been killed in the civil wars of failed states, and hundreds of millions more have been deprived of fundamental rights. The threat of terrorism has only... -
The New Regionalism in Africa by Fredrik Soederbaum
RRP: €70.20Booksplease Price: €65.43This edited volume transcends conventional state-centric and formalistic notions of regionalism and theorizes, conceptualizes and analyzes the complexities and contradictions of regionalization... -
The Country That Does Not Exist: A History of Somaliland Gerard Prunier 9781805264422
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €22.90The Somali people are fiercely nationalistic. Colonialism split them into five segments divided between four different powers. Thus decolonisation and pan-Somalism became synonymous. In 1960 a... -
War and the Politics of Identity in Ethiopia - The Making of Enemies and Allies in the Horn of Africa by Kjetil Tronvoll
Booksplease Price: €114.37Examines war and the impact of warfare on identity formation in Ethiopia. Images of war, narratives of suffering and notions of ethnicity are intrinsically linked to Western perceptions of Africa... -
A History of South Sudan: From Slavery to Independence by Oystein H. Rolandsen
Booksplease Price: €101.92South Sudan is the world's youngest independent country. Established in 2011 after two wars, South Sudan has since reverted to a state of devastating civil strife. This book provides a general... -
The Country That Does Not Exist: A History of Somaliland by Gerard Prunier 9781787382039
RRP: €53.55Booksplease Price: €48.99The Somali people are fiercely nationalistic. Colonialism split them into five segments divided between four different powers. Thus decolonisation and pan-Somalism became synonymous. In 1960 a... -
A History of South Sudan: From Slavery to Independence by Oystein H. Rolandsen 9780521133258
Booksplease Price: €31.67South Sudan is the world's youngest independent country. Established in 2011 after two wars, South Sudan has since reverted to a state of devastating civil strife. This book provides a general... -
The New Protectorates: International Tutelage and the Making of Liberal States by James Mayall
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €28.48German troops fighting the Taliban in the Hindu Kush; EU judges sitting in courts in the Balkans; UN viceroys governing parts of Oceania; American occupation of the Middle East. Amid the myriad... -
War and Conflict in Africa Paul D. Williams (George Washington University) 9781509509058
RRP: €41.64Booksplease Price: €38.48After the Cold War, Africa earned the dubious distinction of being the world's most bloody continent. But how can we explain this proliferation of armed conflicts? What caused them and what were... -
Women of the Somali Diaspora: Refugees, Resilience and Rebuilding After Conflict by Joanna Lewis
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €33.59This book is about Somali mothers and daughters who came to Britain in the 1990s to escape civil war. Many had never left Somalia before, followed nomadic traditions, did not speak English, were... -
War and Conflict in Africa by Paul D. Williams 9781509509041
RRP: €77.35Booksplease Price: €68.84After the Cold War, Africa earned the dubious distinction of being the world's most bloody continent. But how can we explain this proliferation of armed conflicts? What caused them and what were... -
Understanding Ethiopia's Tigray War by Martin Plaut
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €28.48The war in Ethiopia's northern region of Tigray began in November 2020. It inflicted more casualties than any other contemporary conflict in the world. It has also been among the least understood. ... -
After Rape: Violence, Justice, and Social Harmony in Uganda by Holly Porter 9781316631867
Booksplease Price: €42.21Following the ICC intervention in 2005, northern Uganda has been at the heart of international justice debates. The emergent controversy, however, missed crucial aspects of Acholi realities: that the... -
Water, Civilisation and Power in Sudan: The Political Economy of Military-Islamist State Building by Harry Verhoeven 9781107061149
Booksplease Price: €118.68In 1989, a secretive movement of Islamists allied itself to a military cabal to violently take power in Africa's biggest country. Sudan's revolutionary regime was built on four pillars - a new... -
Laying the Past to Rest: The EPRDF and the Challenges of Ethiopian State-Building by Mulugeta Gebrehiwot Berhe
RRP: €77.35Booksplease Price: €69.50The Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), founded as a small guerrilla movement in 1974, became the leading party in the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF). After decades of... -
Water, Civilisation and Power in Sudan: The Political Economy of Military-Islamist State Building by Harry Verhoeven 9781107682689
Booksplease Price: €42.21In 1989, a secretive movement of Islamists allied itself to a military cabal to violently take power in Africa's biggest country. Sudan's revolutionary regime was built on four pillars - a new... -
Insurgent Fragmentation in the Horn of Africa: Rebellion and its Discontents by Michael Woldemariam 9781108435994
Booksplease Price: €42.21When insurgent organizations factionalize and fragment, it can profoundly shape a civil war: its intensity, outcome, and duration. In this extended treatment of this complex and important phenomenon,... -
Oil and Politics in the Gulf of Guinea by Ricardo M. Soares De Oliveira
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €28.48This book investigates the paradox at the heart of present-day Gulf of Guinea politics. The governance crisis festering throughout every one of the region's states ought to discourage outsiders from... -
The Soviet Union and the Horn of Africa during the Cold War: Between Ideology and Pragmatism by Radoslav A. Yordanov
Booksplease Price: €121.99At the height of the Cold War, Soviet ideologues, policymakers, diplomats, and military officers perceived the countries of Africa, Asia, and Latin America as the future reserve of socialism, holding... -
Dams, Power, and the Politics of Ethiopia's Renaissance by Dr Tom Lavers 9780192871213
RRP: €117.81Booksplease Price: €114.18This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and... -
East Africa after Liberation: Conflict, Security and the State since the 1980s by Jonathan Fisher 9781108714310
Booksplease Price: €42.21Between 1986 and 1994, East Africa's postcolonial, political settlement was profoundly challenged as four revolutionary 'liberation' movements seized power in Eritrea, Ethiopia, Rwanda and Uganda...