Big African States : Angola, Drc, Ethiopia, Nigeria, South Africa, Sudan

Acknowledgements vii Contributors viii Africa's big dysfunctional states: an introductory overview 1(16) Jeffrey Herbst and Greg Mills Chapter 1 Ethiopia 17(22) Christopher Clapham Chapter 2 War over identity: the case of Sudan 39(24) Jack Kalpakian Chapter 3 Inching towards a country without a state: prebendalism, violence and state betrayal in Nigeria 63(34) Daniel C Bach Chapter 4 The Democratic Republic of Congo 97(26) Claude Kabemba Chapter 5 From con fusao to estamos juntos? Bigness, development and state dysfunction in Angola 123(32) Greg Mills Chapter 6 South Africa: the contrarian big African State 155(32) Tim Hughes Chapter 7 Dysfunctional states, dysfunctional armed movements, and lootable commodities 187(17) Marina Ottaway Chapter 8 International responses to state dysfunctionality 204(21) Nicolas van de Walle Chapter 9 Conflict in Africa: armies, rebels and geography 225(16) Jeffrey Herbst Chapter 10 Africa's big states and organised crime 241(15) Gail Wannenburg Chapter 11 Leading large states 256(17) Joseph Ayee Chapter 12 Africa and its boundaries, a legal overview: From colonialism to the African Union 273(18) Garth Abraham Chapter 13 Conclusion: policy options for the problems of Africa's big states 291(11) Christopher Clapham Index 302