Contending Issues in African Development : Advances, Challenges, and the Future
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Bloomsbury Publishing USA,
2001
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| Edition: | 1st ed |
| Series: | Contributions in Economics and Economic History Series
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- CONTENDING ISSUES IN AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT
- Contents
- PART I Introduction
- 1 Conflicts and Convergence in African Development Thinking
- BRING BACK THE STATE
- BUILDING SOCIAL CAPACITY
- POLITICAL ECONOMY AND THE MANAGEMENT OF CHANGE
- REGIONAL INTEGRATION AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
- CONCLUSION
- NOTE
- PART II Bring Back the State: From Instability to Consolidation
- 2 The Political Economy of State Reconstitution in Africa
- INTRODUCTION
- MODERNIZATION AND NEOLIBERAL ARGUMENTS
- DEPENDENCY THEORY11
- CONCEPT OF STATEHOOD AND ITS APPLICATION TO AFRICA
- WHERE THE RAIN BEGAN TO BEAT US27
- INTERNATIONAL DIMENSIONS OF DEMOCRATIC TRANSITION IN AFRICA
- RECONSTITUTING THE AFRICAN STATES
- THE ECONOMIC CRISIS FACING AFRICA
- WESTERN RESPONSE TO THE CRISES OF STATEHOOD IN AFRICA
- IN LIEU OF A CONCLUSION: SUPERSTATES ARE BETTER FOR AFRICA
- NOTES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- 3 The Mass Media and Political Stability in Africa: A Utilitarian Theory Approach
- INTRODUCTION
- INSTABILITY: DEFINITIONS
- Factors of Instability
- A MODEL OF INSTABILITY IN AFRICA
- MODEL VARIABLES AND DEFINITIONS
- OPERATION OF THE INSTABILITY MODEL: HOW IT FUNCTIONS
- The Two-Way Relationship between Economic and Social Instabilities
- THE ROLE OF THE MASS MEDIA IN AFRICA'S POLITICS
- The Colonial Press: The Duality of the Mass Media
- The Nationalist Press: Mass Media as Emancipators
- The Contemporary Press
- THE MASS MEDIA AS AGENTS OF STABILITY
- Media Impotence: Why They Are Not Stability Agents
- Development Journalism and National Development
- Consequences of Media Impotence and State Control
- Propositions for Remedying Instability
- Freedom of the Press: What Does It Mean?
- THE PROBLEM AND ITS SOLUTION
- UTILITARIAN JOURNALISM
- Genuine African Needs
- The Feasibility of Utilitarian Journalism
- Policy Reform
- 15 Redefining the African State: Political Capacity in the Post-Reform Era
- THE COLONIAL LEGACY OF THE STATE
- THE AFRICAN STATE AND INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE
- REFORM AND STATE POLITICAL CAPACITY
- CONCLUSION
- NOTES
- Index
- About the Contributors
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- 4 Africa between the Meiji Restoration and the Legacy of Atatürk: Comparative Dilemmas of Modernization
- IS WESTERNIZED AFRICA PREMODERN?
- MODERNIZATION IN A FOREIGN IDIOM
- TOWARD MODERNIZING WESTERNIZED AFRICA
- CONCLUSION
- NOTES
- PART III Building Social Capacity: Civil Society, Democratization, and Human Rights
- 5 Civil Society and Democratic Development in Eastern and Southern Africa
- INTRODUCTION
- NGOS AS DEMOCRATIZING AGENTS
- NGOS AND POLITICS: A CONTRADICTION OF NATURAL EVOLUTION?
- NGOs AS AGENTS OF DEVELOPMENT: BACK TO THE FUTURE?
- CONCLUSION
- REFERENCES
- 6 The State and Human Rights in Africa
- THE HISTORICAL CONSTRUCTION OF THE AFRICAN PREDICAMENT
- THE NONHEGEMONIC STATE AND HUMAN RIGHTS
- CONCLUSION
- NOTES
- 7 Democratization in Sub-Saharan Africa: Problems, Advances, and Prospects
- INTRODUCTION
- DEMOCRACY IN THE SUB-SAHARAN SETTING: TOWARD A WORKING DEFINITION
- FACTORS THAT IMPACT THE SUB-SAHARAN DEMOCRATIZATION PROCESS
- Physical Resources
- Historical Factors
- Early Civilizations
- Present-Day Civilizations
- Influences of Colonial Rule
- Economic Woes and Recovery Efforts
- The Deficit Crisis
- Recovery Efforts
- Social and Cultural Conditions
- Fast Population Growth
- Rapid Urbanization
- Disease, Health Care, and AIDS
- HIV/AIDS
- Other Social and Cultural Conditions
- SUB-SAHARAN MOVES TOWARD POLITICAL DEMOCRACY
- Democracy since Independence
- Democratization Process Undertaken in the 1989-1997 Period
- 1989
- 1990
- 1991
- 1992
- 1993
- States Struggling or Straggling in the Democratization Process
- States Struggling for Minimal Democracy
- States in which Minimal Democracy Has Yet to Take Roots
- CONCLUSION
- REFERENCES
- 8 Prolegomena to an African-Western Ethics and Theory of Rights
- INTRODUCTION
- Obstacles to Integration within ECOWAS
- How to Strengthen ECOWAS
- THE ECONOMIC AND MONETARY UNION OF WEST AFRICA (UEMOA)
- UEMOA Achievements
- UEMOA Obstacles
- How to Strengthen UEMOA
- THE COMMON MARKET FOR EASTERN AND SOUTHERN AFRICA (COMESA)
- COMESA Achievements
- Obstacles to Integration within COMESA
- How to Strengthen COMESA
- SOUTHERN AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY (SADC), THE SUCCESSOR ORGANIZATION TO THE SOUTHERN DEVELOPMENT COORDINATION CONFERENCE (SADCC)
- Achievements of SADC
- Obstacles to Integration within SADC
- Cases of Success in Project-Led Development
- Toward Building SADC Political Strength and Organization
- Impact of Trade Reform on Trade and Industrial Structures
- How to Strengthen SADC
- THE CENTRAL AFRICAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY (CEEAC)
- CEEAC Achievements
- CEEAC Obstacles
- How to Strengthen CEEAC
- THE ECONOMIC AND MONETARY COMMUNITY OF CENTRAL AFRICA (CEMAC)
- CONCLUSION
- 13 West African Regionalism Revisited: Cooperative Management of the Senegal and Gambia Water Resources
- INTRODUCTION
- THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
- SENEGAL RIVER BASIN ORGANIZATION
- ORGANIZATION FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE GAMBIA RIVER BASIN
- CONCLUSIONS
- NOTES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- 14 The Politics of Regional Integration and Development in Africa: Issues, Limitations, and Prospects
- ISSUES AND EFFORTS TOWARD AFRICAN INTEGRATION
- AFRICAN EFFORTS TOWARD INTEGRATION
- THE POLITICS AND LIMITATIONS OF AFRICAN INTEGRATION EFFORTS
- Lack of Mutual Confidence and Trust
- Low Level of Cross-Border Trade Relations
- Poverty of African Political Economy
- Lack of Sustainable Political Will and Lack of Security Climate
- The Limitation of Institutional Mechanism
- Challenges of the New World Order and Globalization
- PROSPECTS OF AFRICAN INTEGRATION SCHEMES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- PART VI Conclusion
- RELATIVISM, MULTICULTURALISM, AND A COMMON ETHICS
- RIGHTS
- A CASE FOR CROSS-CULTURAL VALUES
- The Yanomamo: Overcoming Substantial Differences
- Cross-Cultural Appreciation of Cultures
- PROTECTIONISM AND RIGHTS
- AN AFRICAN-WESTERN VIEW OF RIGHTS
- Five Prolegomic Themes
- NOTES
- PART IV Political Economy and the Management of Change
- 9 Toward Democracy and Security in Africa: What Prospects Exist for the Sustainable Development of Civil Societies?
- AFRICA'S POLITICAL ECONOMY AND CULTURE IN THE 1990S
- CIVIL SOCIETY ON THE CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN CONTINENT
- CHALLENGES FOR AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
- CONCLUSION: WHAT PROSPECTS EXIST FOR SUSTAINABLE DEMOCRACY IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY?
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- 10 Nigeria: The Dynamics of Agricultural Policy in a Restructuring Economy
- INTRODUCTION
- AGRICULTURE AND NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
- AGRICULTURE IN NIGERIAN ECONOMY
- AGRICULTURAL POLICY, 1970-85
- STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT PROGRAM AND AGRICULTURAL POLICIES
- THE AGRICULTURAL POLICY FOR NIGERIA
- A REVIEW OF THE AGRICULTURAL POLICY OF NIGERIA
- ARABLE FARMING
- PASTORAL FARMING
- CONCLUSION: A CRITIQUE OF AGRICULTURAL PERFORMANCE, 1985-98
- NOTES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- 11 Women and Sustainable Development in Africa
- CRITIQUING DEVELOPMENT
- AFRICA'S DEVELOPMENT CRISIS
- ECONOMIC LIBERALIZATION AND GENDER BIAS
- GENDER BIAS IN AGRICULTURE
- GENDER BIAS IN THE NONAGRICULTURAL ECONOMY
- GENDER BIAS, POPULATION GROWTH, AND THE ENVIRONMENT
- EMPOWERING WOMEN FOR GRASSROOTS DEVELOPMENT
- THE GLOBAL ECONOMY VERSUS SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- PART V Regional Integration and Sustainable Development
- 12 Evaluation of the State of Integration in Africa: How to Strengthen the African Economic Community
- THE ECONOMIC COMMUNITY OF WEST AFRICAN STATES (ECOWAS)
- ECOWAS Achievements