Thomas M. Callaghy

Hemmed In: Responses to Africa's Economic Decline.

Provides a critical examination of African and international responses to Africas economic decline of the last two decades, especially the links between economics and politics.

Intervention and Transnationalism in Africa: Global–Local Networks of Power

1. Introduction Robert Latham, Ronald Kassimir and Thomas Callaghy Part I. Historical Dimensions and Conceptual Frameworks: 2. Networks, moral discourse and history Frederick Cooper 3. Defining transboundary connections: international arenas, translocal networks and transterritorial deployments Robert Latham 4. Producing local politics: governance, representation and non-state organization in Africa Ronald Kassimir Part II. Transboundary Networks, States and Civil Societies: 5. Networks and governance in Africa: innovation in debt regime Thomas Callaghy 6. When networks blind: human rights and politics in Kenya Hans Peter Schmitz 7. Global, state and local intersections: a study of power, authority and conflict in the Niger Delta oil communities CyrilI Obi Part III. Political Economies of Violence and Authority: 8. How sovereignty matters: global markets and political economy of local politics in weak studies William Reno 9. Post-modern warfare in Sierra Leone? Recovering the local and social in global-local constructions of violence Paul Richards and Caspar Fithen 10. New sovereigns? The frontiers of wealth creation and regulatory authority in the Chad Basin Janet Roitman 11. Out of the shadows Carolyn Nordstrom Part IV. Reflections: 12. Authority and interventions in world politics Michael Barnett 13. Toward a new research agenda Ronald Kassimir and Robert Latham.

The State as Lame Leviathan: The Patrimonial Administrative State in Africa

Recent discontent with the notions of the state and state formation in the African context and an accompanying preoccupation with the ‘decline of the state’ has much to do with the way that the state and state formation have been conceptualized. There has been much discussion of late of the ‘overdeveloped’, ‘underdeveloped’, or ‘soft’ state, plus ‘uncaptured’ populations and ‘exit options’. These notions were a reaction to the shattered illusions of a post-colonial voluntarist view of the state that was held by many analysts and actors alike. It had various modernization, democratic, neo-colonial, socialist and revolutionary versions. There was an assumption of malleability of both state and society, of linear success and increasing strength that has been increasingly belied by evidence of uneven (and even diminishing) control, resilience of traditional authority patterns, poor economic performance, debt and infrastructure crises, the emergence of magendo or second economies, reductions in administrative performance, curtailment of capacities, political instability and resistance and withdrawal. Underlying these new discussions is often a tone of surprise and bewilderment. Believing that a broader historical, comparative and analytic perspective is useful, this chapter will present and delineate the notion of the patrimonial administrative state as the underlying form of domination in Africa today, above which floats a host of varying and changing ‘regime types’.

The Political Economy of African Debt: The Case of Zaire

As one shrewd analyst of the international political economy has noted, ‘Indebtedness among developing countries generates fierce emotions. Anger, anxiety, fear, resentment, jealousy, disdain and discontent — these are strong feelings often associated with debtors and creditors or (for different reasons) with both at once.’2 President Nyerere of Tanzania has called the IMF a device by which powerful forces in some rich countries increase their power over poor nations. In late 1982, Ghana state radio referred to the IMF as the arch capitalist institution. Subsequently, however, Ghana came to terms with the IMF and performed relatively well, to the pleasure of both. Rhetoric about the IMF and debt played a major role in the Nigerian elections in 1983, and statements about both were used as justification for the military coup d’etat of 31 December 1983 which overthrew an elected civilian government. The new military regime subsequently reopened talks with the banks and the IMF.3

Intervention and Transnationalism in Africa: Historical dimensions and intellectual context

1. Introduction Robert Latham, Ronald Kassimir and Thomas Callaghy Part I. Historical Dimensions and Conceptual Frameworks: 2. Networks, moral discourse and history Frederick Cooper 3. Defining transboundary connections: international arenas, translocal networks and transterritorial deployments Robert Latham 4. Producing local politics: governance, representation and non-state organization in Africa Ronald Kassimir Part II. Transboundary Networks, States and Civil Societies: 5. Networks and governance in Africa: innovation in debt regime Thomas Callaghy 6. When networks blind: human rights and politics in Kenya Hans Peter Schmitz 7. Global, state and local intersections: a study of power, authority and conflict in the Niger Delta oil communities CyrilI Obi Part III. Political Economies of Violence and Authority: 8. How sovereignty matters: global markets and political economy of local politics in weak studies William Reno 9. Post-modern warfare in Sierra Leone? Recovering the local and social in global-local constructions of violence Paul Richards and Caspar Fithen 10. New sovereigns? The frontiers of wealth creation and regulatory authority in the Chad Basin Janet Roitman 11. Out of the shadows Carolyn Nordstrom Part IV. Reflections: 12. Authority and interventions in world politics Michael Barnett 13. Toward a new research agenda Ronald Kassimir and Robert Latham.

Intervention and Transnationalism in Africa: Theoretical frameworks

1. Introduction Robert Latham, Ronald Kassimir and Thomas Callaghy Part I. Historical Dimensions and Conceptual Frameworks: 2. Networks, moral discourse and history Frederick Cooper 3. Defining transboundary connections: international arenas, translocal networks and transterritorial deployments Robert Latham 4. Producing local politics: governance, representation and non-state organization in Africa Ronald Kassimir Part II. Transboundary Networks, States and Civil Societies: 5. Networks and governance in Africa: innovation in debt regime Thomas Callaghy 6. When networks blind: human rights and politics in Kenya Hans Peter Schmitz 7. Global, state and local intersections: a study of power, authority and conflict in the Niger Delta oil communities CyrilI Obi Part III. Political Economies of Violence and Authority: 8. How sovereignty matters: global markets and political economy of local politics in weak studies William Reno 9. Post-modern warfare in Sierra Leone? Recovering the local and social in global-local constructions of violence Paul Richards and Caspar Fithen 10. New sovereigns? The frontiers of wealth creation and regulatory authority in the Chad Basin Janet Roitman 11. Out of the shadows Carolyn Nordstrom Part IV. Reflections: 12. Authority and interventions in world politics Michael Barnett 13. Toward a new research agenda Ronald Kassimir and Robert Latham.

Intervention and Transnationalism in Africa: Index

1. Introduction Robert Latham, Ronald Kassimir and Thomas Callaghy Part I. Historical Dimensions and Conceptual Frameworks: 2. Networks, moral discourse and history Frederick Cooper 3. Defining transboundary connections: international arenas, translocal networks and transterritorial deployments Robert Latham 4. Producing local politics: governance, representation and non-state organization in Africa Ronald Kassimir Part II. Transboundary Networks, States and Civil Societies: 5. Networks and governance in Africa: innovation in debt regime Thomas Callaghy 6. When networks blind: human rights and politics in Kenya Hans Peter Schmitz 7. Global, state and local intersections: a study of power, authority and conflict in the Niger Delta oil communities CyrilI Obi Part III. Political Economies of Violence and Authority: 8. How sovereignty matters: global markets and political economy of local politics in weak studies William Reno 9. Post-modern warfare in Sierra Leone? Recovering the local and social in global-local constructions of violence Paul Richards and Caspar Fithen 10. New sovereigns? The frontiers of wealth creation and regulatory authority in the Chad Basin Janet Roitman 11. Out of the shadows Carolyn Nordstrom Part IV. Reflections: 12. Authority and interventions in world politics Michael Barnett 13. Toward a new research agenda Ronald Kassimir and Robert Latham.

Intervention and Transnationalism in Africa: Conclusion

1. Introduction Robert Latham, Ronald Kassimir and Thomas Callaghy Part I. Historical Dimensions and Conceptual Frameworks: 2. Networks, moral discourse and history Frederick Cooper 3. Defining transboundary connections: international arenas, translocal networks and transterritorial deployments Robert Latham 4. Producing local politics: governance, representation and non-state organization in Africa Ronald Kassimir Part II. Transboundary Networks, States and Civil Societies: 5. Networks and governance in Africa: innovation in debt regime Thomas Callaghy 6. When networks blind: human rights and politics in Kenya Hans Peter Schmitz 7. Global, state and local intersections: a study of power, authority and conflict in the Niger Delta oil communities CyrilI Obi Part III. Political Economies of Violence and Authority: 8. How sovereignty matters: global markets and political economy of local politics in weak studies William Reno 9. Post-modern warfare in Sierra Leone? Recovering the local and social in global-local constructions of violence Paul Richards and Caspar Fithen 10. New sovereigns? The frontiers of wealth creation and regulatory authority in the Chad Basin Janet Roitman 11. Out of the shadows Carolyn Nordstrom Part IV. Reflections: 12. Authority and interventions in world politics Michael Barnett 13. Toward a new research agenda Ronald Kassimir and Robert Latham.