The Rise and Decline of the Zairian StateUniversity of Wisconsin Pres, 1985 - Počet stran: 522 Zaire, apparently strong and stable under Presdident 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 african 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? |
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An Introductory Perspective | 3 |
An Overview 19651980 | 47 |
Capital Town and Countryside | 78 |
Class Formation | 100 |
5 The Ethnic Dimension of Civil Society | 138 |
6 The Patrimonial State and Personal Rule | 164 |
Party and Ideology | 185 |
8 Regional Administration | 221 |
The Security Forces | 248 |
10 Economic Policy during the Mobutu Years | 276 |
Anatomy of a Disaster | 326 |
12 Zaire in the International Arena | 363 |
Crisis of the Zairian State | 396 |
Notes | 409 |
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