A Socialist Peace?: Explaining the Absence of War in an African Country - Softcover

McGovern, Mike

 
9780226453606: A Socialist Peace?: Explaining the Absence of War in an African Country
Softcover
ISBN 10: 022645360X ISBN 13: 9780226453606
Verlag: University of Chicago Press, 2017

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For the last twenty years, the West African nation of Guinea has exhibited all of the conditions that have led to civil wars in other countries, and Guineans themselves regularly talk about the inevitability of war. Yet the country has narrowly avoided conflict again and again. In A Socialist Peace?, Mike McGovern asks how this is possible, how a nation could beat the odds and evade civil war.

Guinea is rich in resources, but its people are some of the poorest in the world. Its political situation is polarized by fiercely competitive ethnic groups. Weapons flow freely through its lands and across its borders. And, finally, it is still recovering from the oppressive regime of Sékou Touré. McGovern argues that while Touré’s reign was hardly peaceful, it was successful—often through highly coercive and violent measures—at establishing a set of durable national dispositions, which have kept the nation at peace. Exploring the ambivalences of contemporary Guineans toward the afterlife of Touré’s reign as well as their abiding sense of socialist solidarity, McGovern sketches the paradoxes that undergird political stability.

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Mike McGovern is associate professor of anthropology at the University of Michigan. He is the author of Making War in Côte d&;Ivoire and Unmasking the State, both also published by the University of Chicago Press.
 

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University of Chicago Press
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2017
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Englisch
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ISBN 13 
9780226453606
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