- Title
- Africa: unity, sovereignty and sorrow A book review
- Creator
- Matthews, Sally
- Date Issued
- 2011
- Date
- 2011
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/142387
- Identifier
- vital:38075
- Identifier
- DOI: 10.1080/02589001.2011.562007
- Description
- This ambitious book begins with the statement ‘By and large, the states of sub-Saharan Africa are failures’ (p. 1) and then sets out to explain state failure in Africa and to provide some ‘rational policy fantasies’ in response to this failure. The book builds on the work of scholars like Robert Jackson, William Reno and Jeffrey Herbst, with the particular focus of Englebert's book being on the domestic implications of the unconditional recognition of the sovereignty of African states. African states are internationally recognised despite lacking the features and not being able to perform the functions typically associated with statehood. Englebert's interest is to examine some of the domestic effects of this unconditional international recognition.
- Format
- 4 pages
- Format
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Journal of Contemporary African Studies
- Relation
- Sally Matthews (2011) Africa: unity, sovereignty and sorrow, Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 29:2, 238-241, DOI: 10.1080/02589001.2011.562007
- Relation
- Journal of Contemporary African Studies volume 29 number 2 238 241 April 2011 1469-9397
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