The real politics of the Horn of Africa : money, war and the business of power / / Alex de Waal

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910157453903321
• Autore: De Waal Alex
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge, England ; ; Malden, Massachusetts : , : Polity, , 2015; ©2015
• ISBN: 0-7456-9561-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (267 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.20963
• Soggetti: Political culture - Horn of Africa; Political violence - Horn of Africa; Political corruption - Horn of Africa; Horn of Africa Politics and government
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Dedication""; ""Title page""; ""Copyright page""; ""Figures and Maps""; ""Figures""; ""Maps""; ""Acronyms""; ""Preface and Acknowledgements""; ""1: Introduction""; ""The View from the Edge""; ""A Vignette: The Darfur Negotiations""; ""Vernacular Politics in Sudan""; ""From Political Vernacular to Political Theory""; ""Outline of the Book""; ""Notes""; ""2: The Political Marketplace""; ""'No Condition is Permanent'""; ""The Political Marketplace and Real Politics""; ""Political Entrepreneurs and Business Managers""; ""Specifying the Variables of 'Real Politics'""; ""State-Building versus Political-Business Management""""A Story of Men""; ""Notes""; ""3: The Horn of Africa""; ""Visualizing the Horn of Africa""; ""A Laboratory of Conflicts""; ""The Contested Political Geography of the Horn""; ""When Things Fell Apart""; ""Africa's Subcontinental War""; ""The New Rentierism and the African Security Architecture""; ""Notes""; ""4: Darfur""; ""A Near-Perfect Political Marketplace""; ""Closed Districts and the Thirty Years' War""; ""The Auction of Loyalties""; ""Regulating the Market?""; ""The Functions and Limits of Violence""; ""Implications: the Interwar""""Notes""; ""5: Sudan""; ""The Unexpected Survivor""; ""The Financial Skeleton of Sudanese Politics""; ""Nimeiri's ; Chameleon Dictatorship 1969-85""; ""Sadiq al Mahdi's Impossible Balancing Act""; ""The 1990s: Survival Against the Odds""; ""The Oil Boom and Rentier Peace""; ""Post-Separation Sudan""; ""Implications""; ""Notes""; ""6: South Sudan""; ""The Price of Independence""; ""Garang's Challenges""; ""Salva's Business Plan""; ""The Skeleton of the South Sudanese State""; ""New War, Old Peace""; ""An Alternative Ethic?""; ""Notes""; ""7: Somalia""; ""Mogadishu 1992""""The Somali Nation and State""; ""Siyad Barre's Security Rentier Kleptocracy""; ""Commerce without a State""; ""Political Rentierism without a State""; ""The Communications Revolution""; ""Islamist Challenges""; ""Globalized Somalia""; ""Piracy and Counter-Piracy""; ""Conclusion""; ""Notes""; ""8: Somaliland""; ""Somaliland Exceptionalism""; ""Convening Somaliland""; ""Political Finance""; ""How Was Somaliland Secured?""; ""Implications""; ""Notes""; ""9: Eritrea""; ""Fascism and Maoism""; ""Militarized Developmental State- and Nation-Building""; ""Funding a Garrison State, 2001-2011""""The Seeds of a Rentier Political Marketplace""; ""Implications""; ""Notes""; ""10: Ethiopia""; ""The Ethiopian Configuration""; ""Meles Zenawi in Government: Theory and Practice""; ""Is State Building (Still) Possible?""; ""Notes""; ""11: Transnational Patronage and Dollarization""; ""The 'Non-Integrated Gap'""; ""The Commodities Boom""; ""Illicit Finance""; ""Aid Rents and Global Governance""; ""Counter-Terrorism Rent""; ""Criminal and Law-Enforcement Rents""; ""The 'New Peacekeeping'""; ""Peacemaking in the Political Marketplace""; ""Globalizing Patronage""