The state in Africa : an analysis of impacts of historical trajectories of global capitalist expansion and domination in the continent / / Tatah Mentan

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910968994303321
• Autore: Mentan Tatah <1948->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Mankon, Bamenda, Cameroon, : Langaa Research & Pub. CIG; East Lansing, Mich., : Distributed in N. America by Michigan State University Press, c2010
• ISBN: 9956-616-24-9
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (439 p.)
• Soggetti: Globalization - Economic aspects - Africa; Nation-state and globalization - Africa
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographic references (p. [395]-417).
• Nota di contenuto: Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Content -- List of Acronyms -- Preface -- Section One -- Introduction -- Introduction and Framing the Problem of the State in Africa -- Chapter One: Introduction -- Chapter Two: Framing the Problem of the State in Africa -- Chapter Three: Historical and Theoretical Context -- Chapter Four: The State in Africa in an Era of Capitalist Globalization: A Theoretical Exploration -- Section Two -- Early Globalization and the Commodification of the African -- Chapter Five: Slavery and Capitalist Globalization -- Chapter Six: Colonial Globalisation or the Extension of European Westphalian State to Africa -- Chapter Seven: Decolonizing Imperial State in Africa, 1945-60: -- Chapter Eight: African Developmentalist/ Nationalist State? -- Section Three -- New World (Dis)Order Assaults Capitalist Neo-colonial State System in Africa -- Chapter Nine: From Welfare/Developmentalist to Neo-liberal Nation State in Africa -- Chapter Ten: Neo-liberal Assault on the State in Africa: Roots of State Weakness, Failure and Collapse -- Chapter Eleven: The State in Africa and Civil Society in Historical Perspective -- Section Four -- The Future as Epilogue -- Chapter Twelve: Future of the State in Africa in an Era of Neoliberal Globalization -- Chapter Thirteen: An African State is Possible: Looking Back in Order to Look ; Ahead -- Bibliography -- Back Cover.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book critically analyzes the complex relationship between the African state and capitalist globalization.It describes in great detail the significant effects of the various historical trajectories of global capitalist expansion on the nature and functions of the African state while focusing on the present triumph of globalized neo-liberalism.