Crawford Young

Pastoral Politics in the Northeast Periphery in Uganda: AK-47 as Change Agent

Our aim in this article is to contribute to understanding the effects of firearms on the relationship between the state and pastoral communities in contemporary northeast Uganda. The Karamoja region has from early colonial times been a peripheral zone. Although successive post-colonial regimes have made episodic efforts to incorporate this zone more fully into Ugandan national space, relations between Karamoja and the centre remain distant and distrustful. The transformation of local modes of conflict by large-scale infusion of the AK-47 has had far-reaching effects both on relationships with the Ugandan state and its local representatives, and within Karamoja societies. The younger men who possess these weapons elude the authority of the elders, and entertain ambiguous relations with the state authorities, whom they may serve as auxiliaries or resist.

Beyond State Crisis?: Postcolonial Africa and Post-Soviet Eurasia in Comparative Perspective

Part I Overview and Retrospective: 1. Introduction - Comparing State Crises Across Two Continents, Mark Beissinger and Crawford Young 2. Convergence to Crisis - Pre-Independence State Legacies and Post-Independence State Breakdown in Africa and Eurasia, Mark Beissinger and Crawford Young. Part II Sovereignty, Violence, and War: 3. At the Edge of the World - Boundaries, Territoriality, and Sovereignty, Achille Mbembe 4. Who is Strong When the State is Weak? - Violent Entreprenuership in Russias Emerging Markets, Vadim Volkov 5. Mafiya Trouble, Warlord Crises, Will Reno 6. Weak State and Private Armies, Charles Fairbanks 7. Civil Wars and State-Building in Africa and Eurasia, David Holloway and Stephen Stedman 8. The Effects of Interstate Crisis on African Interstate Relations (With Eurasian Comparisons), Donald Rothchild. Part III Democratization and Political Economy: 9. Russia - Unconsolidated Democracy, Creeping Authoritarianism, or Unresolved Stagnation? Lilia Shevtsova 10. War, State Making, and Democratization in Africa, Richard Joseph 11. The East Goes South - International Aid and the Production of Convergence in Africa and Eurasia, Peter J. Stavrakis 12. Economic Reform and the Discourse of Democracy in Africa - Resolving the Contradictions, Peter M. Lewis. Part IV State and Society: 13. Accomodating Ethnic Differences in Post-Soviet Eurasia, Gail W. Lapidus 14. Beyond Cultural Domination - Institutionalizing Equity in the African State, Francis M. Deng 15. Women and Political Change in Eurasia and Africa, Aili Mari Tripp. Part V Beyond State Crisis?: 16. Putting the State Back Together in Post-Soviet Georgia, Ghia Nodia 17. After the Fall - State Rehabilitation in Uganda, Crawford Young 18. Transcending the Crisis of the State in Africa and Post-Soviet Eurasia - Hopeless Chimera or Possible Dream?, Mark Beissinger and Crawford Young.

Area Studies and Social Science: Strategies for Understanding Middle East Politics

Table of Contents: Acknowledgments Introduction: The Area Studies Controversy, Mark Tessler, Jodi Nachtwey, Anne Banda 1. Politics in the Middle East: Opportunities and Limits in the Quest for Theory, Lisa Anderson 2. State-Society Relations: Algeria as a Case Study, John P. Entelis 3. Associational Life: Civil Society in Authoritarian Political Systems, Augustus Richard Norton 4. Explaining Womens Support for Political Islam: Contributions from Feminist Theory, Jodi Nachtwey and Mark Tessler 5. Influencing Public Policy: Banking and the Political Economy of Collective Action, Clement Henry 6. Toward a Theory of International Labor Migration: Evidence from Egypt, Magda Kandil 7. Religion and International Conflict: An Individual-Level Analysis, Mark Tessler and Jodi Nachtwey 8. The Arab-Israeli Conflict: Lessons about Diplomatic Initiatives and Negotiations, Laura Zittrain Eisenberg 9. Middle Eastern Alliances: From Neorealism to Political Economy, Laurie Brand 10. International Relations Theory: Contributions from Research in the Middle East, Baghat Korany Contributors Index

Deciphering Disorder in Africa: Is Identity the Key?

At the beginning of the 1990s, a wave of democratization raised new hopes for peace in Africa, but as the decade progressed, violent politics spread and formed two large arcs of conflict that weakened or even collapsed states could not contain. This review article examines five recent books that address the potential impact of identity politics on civil violence in Africa. Two of the authors—Donald Horowitz and Ted Gurr—address these issues in a global comparison, while the other three—Luis Martinez, Stephen Ellis, and Mahmood Mamdani—examine important African instances of protracted internal warfare, in Algeria, Liberia, and Rwanda, respectively. Is identity politics the primary instigator of disorder? What is the impact of a prolonged period of state crisis upon communal relationships? The volumes under review offer useful insights, but large questions remain.

Dilemmas of democracy in Nigeria

Part 1 History and society: crises and transitions in the political history of independent Nigeria, Richard L. Sklar Nigeria - a political entity and a society, Funso Afolayan. Part 2 Theoretical perspectives: permanent transition and changing conjunction - dilemmas of democracy in Africa - a Nigerian context, Crawford Young the concept of second liberation and the prospects of democracy in Africa - a Nigerial context, Peter P. Ekeh legitimizing democracy - the role of the highly educated elite, Paul A. Beckett. Part 3 The failure of transition: democratization under military rule and repression in Nigeria, Richard Joseph obstacles to democratization in Nigeria, Jibrin Ibrahim transition without end - from hope to despair - reflections of a participant-observer, Oyeleye Oyediran 1993 - crisis and breakdown of Nigerias transition to democracy, David Emelifeonwu. Part 4 Identities and contexts: women and the dilemma of politics in Nigeria, Pat Ama Tokunbo Williams Nigerian unity and the tensions of democracy - geo-cultural zones and north-south legacies, John N. Paden Christian radicalism and Nigerian politics, Toyin Falola Muslims, state, and the struggle for democratic transition in Nigeria - from co-operation to conflict, Sabo Bako politics and the economy - a downward spiral, Peter Lewis. Part 5 Institutional framework: politics and the search for accommodation in Nigeria - will rotational consociationalism suffice?, Chudi Uwazurike federalism, ethnicity and regionalism in Nigeria, Rotimi T. Suberu party systems and civil society, Adigun Agbaje local institutions, civil society and democratization in Nigeria, 1986-1993, Alex Gboyega traditional rulers and the dilemma of democratic transitions in Nigeria, Olufemi Vaughan.