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" West Africa and much of the underdeveloped world: the withering away of central governments, the rise of tribal and regional domains, the unchecked spread of disease, and the growing pervasiveness of war. "
Counterinsurgency: Strategy and the Phoenix of American Capability - Page 16
by Steven Metz - 1995
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Haitian Asylum-seekers: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on International Law ...

United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on International Law, Immigration, and Refugees - History - 1994 - 548 pages
.../lERR« UONE IS A MICROCOSM OF WHAT IS OCCURRING IN WEST AFRICA AND MUCH OF THE UNOERDEVELOPED WORLD: THE WITHERING AWAY OF CENTRAL GOVERNMENTS, THE RISE...OF DISEASE, AND THE GROWING PERVASIVENESS OF WAR. could emu to the army's positions and there bury charms - . . io improve the rebels' chances of fucceu.~...
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State Building and Democracy in Southern Africa: A Comparative Study of ...

Pierre Du Toit - History - 1995 - 478 pages
...anarchy that will envelop all of West Africa and much of the underdeveloped world. He predicts, '... the withering away of central governments, the rise...of disease, and the growing pervasiveness of war'. At the core of the impending anarchy described by Kaplan, lie the decay and collapse of the political...
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Africa's Management in the 1990s and Beyond: Reconciling Indigenous and ...

Mamadou Dia - Business & Economics - 1996 - 310 pages
...perceives West Africa's future as a symbol of a coming age of international anarchy characterized by "the withering away of central governments, the rise of tribal and regional domains . . . and the growing pervasiveness of war." The Development of an Indigenous Private Sector An operational...
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Twenty-first Century Democracy

Philip Resnick - Political Science - 1997 - 182 pages
...in a more tempered and gradual manner, throughout West Africa and much of the underdeveloped world; the withering away of central governments, the rise...of disease, and the growing pervasiveness of war" (Kaplan, 1994: 48). As parts of the erstwhile third world - the newly industrialized countries - become...
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Rulers and Ruled: An Introduction to Classical Political Theory from Plato ...

Irving M. Zeitlin - Political Science - 1997 - 228 pages
...also yielded a large number of mutilated and dead victims. Throughout West Africa we have witnessed the withering away of central governments, the rise of tribal and regional domains, the growing pervasiveness of war. West Africa now appears to consist of a series of coastal trading ports,...
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Zones of Peace in the Third World: South America and West Africa in ...

Arie Marcelo Kacowicz - Political Science - 1998 - 296 pages
...Ivory Coast, Guinea Bissau, and occasionally Ghana—have been very weak; they are characterized by the withering away of central governments, the rise of tribal and regional domains, and low levels of political institutionalization and legitimacy. Some of these states have even lost...
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Warlord Politics and African States

William Reno - History - 1998 - 274 pages
...years. In his article, "The Coming Anarchy," Robert Kaplan wrote that Sierra Leone is a microcosm of ... the withering away of central governments, the rise...spread of disease, and the growing pervasiveness of war . . . and an interior that, owing to violence, volatility and disease, is again becoming "blank" and...
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Globalization and the Challenges of a New Century: A Reader

Patrick O'Meara, Howard D. Mehlinger, Matthew Krain - History - 2000 - 582 pages
...in a more tempered and gradual manner, throughout West Africa and much of the underdeveloped world: the withering away of central governments, the rise...of disease, and the growing pervasiveness of war. West Africa is reverting to the Africa of the Victorian atlas. It consists now of a series of coastal...
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Closing the Circle: Democratization and Development in Africa

Richard Sandbrook - Business & Economics - 2000 - 193 pages
...was occurring, "albeit in a more tempered and gradual manner," throughout much of the Third World: "The withering away of central governments, the rise...of disease, and the growing pervasiveness of war" (Kaplan 1994: 48). Although this scenario was unduly pessimistic, it did reflect widespread anxieties...
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Peacekeeping and Conflict Resolution

Tom Woodhouse, Oliver Ramsbotham - History - 2000 - 284 pages
...Africa was reverting to the Africa of the Victorian atlas, its government withering away, replaced by the rise of tribal and regional domains, the unchecked...of disease and the growing pervasiveness of war/" This first phase of assessment was. not surprisingly, fairly superficial, It was largely an emotive...
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