State failure in sub-Saharan Africa (Record no. 9394)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 978-0755601080
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 320.967SCO
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Scott, Catherine.
245 #0 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title State failure in sub-Saharan Africa
Remainder of title the crisis of post-colonial order
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. London
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. I.B. Tauris
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2017
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xii, 306p. : 3 maps ; 23 cm.
500 ## - GENERAL NOTE
General note Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-296) and index.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. How should failed states in Africa be understood? Catherine Scott here critically engages with the concept of state failure and provides an historical reinterpretation. She shows that, although the concept emerged in the context of the post-Cold War new world order, the phenomenon has been attendant throughout (and even before) the development of the Westphalian state system. Contemporary failed states, however, differ from their historical counterparts in one fundamental respect: they fail within their existing borders and continue to be recognised as something that they are not. This peculiarity derives from international norms instituted in the era of decolonisation, which resulted in the inviolability of state borders and the supposed universality of statehood. Scott argues that contemporary failed states are, in fact, failed post-colonies. Thus understood, state failure is less the failure of existing states and more the failed rooting and institutionalisation of imported and reified models of Western statehood.
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Decolonization--Africa, Sub-Saharan.
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        UONGOZI Institute Resources Centre - Dar es Salaam UONGOZI Institute Resources Centre - Dar es Salaam 01/17/2025   320.967SCO 007973 01/31/2025 01/17/2025 Book