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Author: NOLUTSHUNGU, Sam C
ISBN: 9780813916286

by Sam C. Nolutshungu

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The emergence and disintegration of states, often under conditions of appalling violence, is a problem of primary importance in the world. Chad's long experience of civil strife and foreign intervention illustrates some of the fundamental difficulties involved in the attempt to achieve political stability through armed intervention. Covering Chad's thirty years of civil strife, Limits of Anarchy looks at foreign inervention in Chad's civil war and the effects of such intervention on state construction. The first major study of Chad to appear in English for many years, the book pays particular attention to French, Chadian, and ofhter African political reflections on the problem of Chad.

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The emergence and disintegration of states, often under conditions of appalling violence, is a problem of primary importance in the world. Chad's long experience of civil strife and foreign intervention illustrates some of the fundamental difficulties involved in the attempt to achieve political stability through armed intervention. Covering Chad's thirty years of civil strife, Limits of Anarchy looks at foreign intervention in Chad's civil war and the effects of such intervention on state construction. The first major study of Chad to appear in English for many years, the book pays particular attention to French, Chadian, and other African political reflections on the problem of Chad. Chadians still hope to construct a viable national state. Nolutshungu looks at their rival approaches to state building under external constraints and at reasons for their failure.

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Title Limits of Anarchy: Intervention and State Formation in Chad
Author Sam C. Nolutshungu
Binding Hardcover
Edition First Edition
Pages 348
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville, VA
Date 1996
ISBN 9780813916286 / 0813916283
Weight 1.79 lbs (0.81 kg)
Dimensions 9.34 x 6.44 x 1.31 in (23.72 x 16.36 x 3.33 cm)
Library of Congress Catalog Number 95016954
Dewey Decimal Code 967.430

About the author

Sam C. Nolutshungu is Professor of Political Science at the Universit of Rochester. He is the author of South Africa in Africa: A Study of Ideology and Foreign Policy and Changing South Africa: Political Considerations.