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New States in the Modern World is probably the first book to consider new states in relationship to their effect on world political order. This volume of original essays focuses on the origins and current status of the new African states and one Arab-African state, Egypt. Despite their many distinguishing features, the new nations all have in common the colonial experience, which has formulated their major political attributes. The eminent authors of these studies describe the structural problems of new states, particularly the role of ideology, the patterns of internal conflict, and the character of political cleavages. Of special concern are the ways in which international organization induced the formation of new states and, conversely, the impact the new nations have had on the international system. The resulting conflicts require redefinition of the international order, a new kind of regulation. This book takes a major step on the road to such redefinition.
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"My intention [is] to provide a frank criticism of the British colonial legacies to countries which I have come to love and admire and a sincere unsycophantic tribute to those who are now struggling with the problems flowing from these legacies." In this book, an expanded version of The Oliver Wendell Holmes Lectures he delivered at Harvard University in 1966, Mr. Gower first looks at some of the legacies of colonialism inherited by those nations of Tropical Africa which recently gained independence from Britain: Nigeria, Ghana, Sierra Leone, The Gambia, Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania. These various legacies include arbitrary national boundaries imposed long before independence; British-style education, government, civil service, military forces, and police; respect for the rule of law (and a residual contempt for it as a result of colonial associations); underdeveloped and unbalanced economies; hostility toward the West, including American "dollar-imperialism," and a hypersensitivity to criticism from that quarter. Mr. Gower continues with an assessment of what has happened to these legacies since independence and what seems likely to happen to them in the next few decades. His central concern is the challenge thus implied for the indigenous legal professions, but his study has far wider implications. In conclusion Mr. Gower describes how the legal professions were organized at the time of independence in the various countries and what progress has been made in producing the kinds of lawyers needed to solve the urgent problems these countries face. He suggests what the United States can and should-and occasionally what it should not-do to help.
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The authors investigate well-known concerns in natural resource management in Africa while focusing on the capacity dimension of the problems. They examine dynamics of leadership, governance, criminality, structural transformation, as well as emerging issues such as green growth.
Africa—Politics and government. --- Political economy. --- Economic policy. --- Sustainable development. --- Development economics. --- International relations. --- African Politics. --- International Political Economy. --- Economic Policy. --- Sustainable Development. --- Development Economics. --- International Relations.
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In light of the decline of trade union membership and the role TU are expected to play in industrial relations, this book explores the consequences of government action and the economic policies on TU membership, investigating the forms of political action undertaken by TU and reviewing the conditions under which these actions succeed or fail.
Leadership. --- Africa—Politics and government. --- Political theory. --- Political philosophy. --- Labor economics. --- Political communication. --- Business Strategy/Leadership. --- African Politics. --- Political Theory. --- Political Philosophy. --- Labor Economics. --- Political Communication.
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Politics --- Social policy --- Economic policy and planning (general) --- Africa --- Education and state --- Education --- Social policy. --- Economic policy. --- Politique gouvernementale --- Afrique --- Politics and government --- Politique et gouvernement --- Economic policy --- Africa - Social policy --- Africa - Economic policy --- Education and state - Africa --- Africa - Politics and government - 21st century
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"What are the benefits and risks for Africa’s participation in the globalisation nexus? Remapping Africa in the Global Space is a visionary and interdisciplinary volume that restores Africa’s image using a multidisciplinary lens. It incorporates disciplines such as sociology, education, global studies, economics, development studies, political science and philosophy to explore and theorise Africa’s reality in the global space and to deconstruct the misperceptions and narratives that often infantilise Africa’s internal and international relations. The contributions to this volume are a hybrid of both ‘outsider’ and ‘insider’ perspectives that create a balanced critical discourse that can provide ‘standard’ paradigms that can adequately explain, predict, or prevent Africa’s current misperceptions and myths about the African ‘crisis’ and ‘failure’ status. The authors provide a holistic, and perhaps, anticolonial and anti-hegemonic perspective that can benefit a wide spectrum of academics, scholars, students, development agents, policy makers in both governmental and non-governmental organisations and engage some alternative analyses and possibilities for socio-politico and economic advancement in Africa. The book provides up-to-date scholarly research on continental trends on various subjects and concerns of paramount importance to globalisation and development in Africa. “The book is brilliant! Remapping Africa in the Global Space: Propositions for Change explores Africa from the perspective of academics specialised in subject matters pertaining to the continent. In this age of globalisation, I find this book invaluable. It is a good read as it dissects analyses and presents issues affecting the continent in an articulate and cogent way. I highly recommend its use in academic institutions!” – Magnus Mfoafo-M’Carthy, Assistant Professor, Lyle S. Hallman Faculty of Social Work; Fellow of Tshepo Institute for the Study of Contemporary Africa, Wilfrid Laurier University, Kitchener, Canada “More than anything else, Remapping Africa in the Global Space: Propositions for Change speaks to the complex, multifaceted, and interfused character of the development challenges and prospects of Africa. Indeed, few books have examined contemporary Africa as comprehensively and insightfully as this edited volume; it is widely welcomed in the African academic, scholarly and research arena.” – Joseph Mensah, Professor of Geography, York University, Toronto ".
Africa -- Economic conditions -- 21st century. --- Africa -- Politics and government -- 21st century. --- Africa -- Strategic aspects. --- World politics -- 21st century. --- Physics --- Physical Sciences & Mathematics --- Physics - General --- World politics --- Africa --- Politics and government --- Economic conditions --- Strategic aspects. --- Energy. --- Energy, general. --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Economic history. --- Politics and government. --- History, Economic --- Economics
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States at Work explores the mundane practices of state-making in Africa by focusing on the daily functioning of public services and the practices of civil servants. Adopting mainly an ethnographic approach as a basis for theorizing, the authors deal with topics including: bureaucratic cultures and practical norms, operational routines in offices, career patterns and modes of appointment; how bureaucrats themselves perceive and deliver goods and services and interact with service users; the accumulation of public administration reforms and how the different bureaucratic corps react to the ‘good governance’ discourse and new public management policies; the consequences of these reforms for the daily working of state bureaucracies and for the civil servants’ identities and modes of accountability; and the space that exists for bottom-up micro-reforms that build on local innovations or informal arrangements.
Government --- Public administration --- Africa --- Bureaucracy --- Economic development --- State, The. --- Administration publique (Science) --- Bureaucratie --- Développement économique --- Etat --- Afrique --- Politics and government --- Economic policy. --- Politique et gouvernement --- Politique économique --- State, The --- Economic policy --- Administration publique --- #SBIB:35H2180 --- #SBIB:35H6080 --- #SBIB:39A73 --- Administration --- Commonwealth, The --- Sovereignty --- Political science --- Development, Economic --- Economic growth --- Growth, Economic --- Economics --- Statics and dynamics (Social sciences) --- Development economics --- Resource curse --- Interorganizational relations --- Organizational sociology --- Personeelsmanagement: openbaar ambt: Ontwikkelingslanden --- Bestuur en beleid: nationale en regionale studies: Ontwikkelingslanden --- Etnografie: Afrika --- Développement économique --- Politique économique --- Public administration - Africa --- Bureaucracy - Africa --- Economic development - Africa --- Africa - Politics and government - 1960 --- -Africa - Economic policy --- Society & culture: general
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