Liberia's State Failure, Collapse and Reconstitution - Softcover

Kieh, Jr. George Klay

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0982584210 ISBN 13: 9780982584217

Publisher: Africana Homestead Legacy Publishers, 2012

Synopsis

This detailed analysis, with an overview of theoretical models, presents Liberia's failure in state-building from its founding as a colony, through its development as a settler state, to its emergence as a sovereign commonwealth, and its evolution into a peripheral capitalist state. The author carefully evaluates internal and external factors that caused state failure and the state collapse and re-collapse marked by the country's two civil wars. The study concludes with a critical review of reconstitution in post-conflict years, under both transitional and elected administrations in the 1990s and the first decade of the 21st century.

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About the Author

GEORGE KLAY KIEH, JR., is Professor of Political Science at Morehouse University, Atlanta, GA.

Edition details

• Publisher: Africana Homestead Legacy Publishers
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0982584210
• ISBN 13: 9780982584217
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400