The real politics of the Horn of Africa : money, war and the business of power /
Alex de Waal.
- xi, 267 pages ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-250) and index.
Introduction: observing the business of power -- The political marketplace: politics is business and business is politics -- The Horn of Africa: subcontinental war in three acts -- Darfur: the auction of loyalties -- Sudan: managing the unmanageable -- South Sudan: the boom and bust of a speculative bubble -- Somalia: a post-apocalypse workshop -- Somaliland: a business-social contract -- Eritrea: a museum of modernism -- Ethiopia: is state-building still possible? -- Transnational patronage: shadow globalization and the regional marketplace -- The politics of ideas: perplexed intellectuals and policymakers.
9780745695570 (hardback) 9780745695587 (pbk.)
2015004483
Political culture--Horn of Africa. Political violence--Horn of Africa. Political corruption--Horn of Africa.