International relations and Africa : a mélange of metaphors, a dearth of theory -- Africa's wars as new wars : dubious dichotomies and flattening history -- Africa, racism, and world politics : dualism and the persistence of primitivism -- Socialization and the domestic sources of Africa's international wars -- Africa's international wars : inverted legitimacy and neopatrimonial balancing -- Disturbing the peace : Africa's international wars and the democratic peace -- Liberal trade theory, regional institutionalism, and Africa's international wars -- Conclusion: African realism. |