1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910707039003321

Titolo

U.S. Strategy in Afghanistan : Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourteenth Congress, first session : hearing held October 8, 2015

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington : , : U.S. Government Publishing Office, , 2016

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (iii, 79 pages)

Soggetti

Political stability - Afghanistan

Internal security - Afghanistan

Armed Forces

Internal security

Military policy

Political stability

Politics and government

Strategic aspects of individual places

Legislative hearings.

United States Armed Forces Afghanistan

Afghanistan Strategic aspects

United States Military policy

Afghanistan Politics and government

Afghanistan

United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from title screen (viewed on March 28, 2016).

Paper version available for sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Publishing Office.

"H.A.S.C. no. 114-55."



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910779461203321

Autore

Young Crawford <1931->

Titolo

The rise and decline of the Zairian state / / Crawford Young, Thomas Turner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Madison, Wis. : , : University of Wisconsin Press, , 1985

ISBN

0-299-10113-4

1-283-99102-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xix, 500 pages) : illustrations, map

Altri autori (Persone)

TurnerThomas <1939->

Disciplina

967.5/103

Soggetti

Congo (Democratic Republic) Politics and government 1960-1997

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Spine title: The rise & decline of the Zairian state.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The state in Zaire : an introductory perspective Zaire in the Mobutu years : an overview, 1965-1980 The state and civil society : capital, town, and countryside The dynamics of inequality : class formation The ethnic dimension of civil society The patrimonial state and personal rule In pursuit of legitimacy : party and ideology Regional administration The seventh scourge : the security forces Economic policy during the Mobutu years Zairianization and radicalization : anatomy of a disaster Zaire in the international arena Conclusion : crisis of the Zairian state

Sommario/riassunto

Zaire, apparently strong and stable under President Mobutu in the early 1970s, was bankrupt and discredited by the end of that decade, beset by hyperinflation and mass corruption, the populace forced into abject poverty. Why and how, in a new state strategically located in Central Africa and rich in mineral resources, did this happen? How did the Zairian state become a "parasitic predator" upon its own people? The authors examine the political history of Mobutu's Zaire, looking at critical structures and patterns of societal flux, inequality, and cleavage, in particular the urban-rural nexus, the problematic of class formation, and the fluid patterns of cultural pluralism.