Intervention and Transnationalism in Africa : Global-Local Networks of Power
Thomas. Callaghy
Bok Engelsk 2001 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2001
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (337 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of contributors; Preface; List of abbreviations; 1 Introduction: transboundary formations, intervention, order, and authority; A tale of two countries; Transboundary formations, orders, and authorities; Transboundary formations and Africa; Transboundary formations, states, and the global context of "extraversion"; The institutional diversity within transboundary formations; Part I Historical dimensions and intellectual context; 2 Networks, moral discourse, and history; Elusive connections. - 9 How sovereignty matters: international markets and the political economy of local politics in weak states. - Establishing alternative sources of authority, 1984 to 1991The struggle for a new political order, 1991-2000; Conclusion; 8 Global, state, and local intersections: power, authority, and conflict in the Niger Delta oil communities; Introduction; Some conceptual issues; From the global to the local: the deconstruction of local resistance; International arenas, transnational discourses, and local protest; MOSOP's strategies for entering international arenas; Conclusion; Part IV Political economies of violence and authority. - Part III Transboundary networks, international institutions, states, and civil societies6 Networks and governance in Africa: innovation in the debt regime; Introduction; The structural dilemma; The international debt regime; NGO principled-issue networks on debt; An epistemic community on debt; Uganda and the international debt regime; The rise of the HIPC Debt Initiative; HIPC II, poverty reduction, and NGOs; Conclusion; 7 When networks blind: human rights and politics in Kenya; Vertical and horizontal networking as forms of social action. - The peculiar history of global interaction: slavery and antislaveryEmpire and progress; The spaces of ideological innovation: between empire and humanity; The peculiar history of national sovereignty; The sovereign, the global, and the local; 3 Authority, intervention, and the outer limits of international relations theory; The status of the global in international relations theory; Authority in global politics; Conclusion; Part II Theoretical frameworks; 4 Identifying the contours of transboundary political life; Dimensions of transboundary interaction: arenas and networks. - Transterritorial deploymentsSituational power; Local governance, supralocal rule, and the state; Conclusion: transterritorial deployments and responsibility; 5 Producing local politics: governance, representation, and non-state organizations in Africa; Introduction; Governance and representation: an example; Non-state governance and representation; Local politics and non-state organizations; Representation, governance, and transboundary formations; Conclusion: transboundary formations, "weak states," and "civil society". - A contributory volume considering how global forces establish networks of power across Africa, first published in 2001.
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| Geografisk emneord | Africa - Politics and government . - Afrika : (NO-TrBIB)HUME01540
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| ISBN | 0521001412. - 0521806666
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