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Charakter, Problemlösungskapazität und Reformfähigkeit sind wesentliche Parameter, mit denen die Autoren des Sammelbandes acht afrikanische Staaten analysieren. Die unterschiedliche Kombination von Führung, Regime, Verwaltung und Wohlstand bringt verschiedene Staatstypen hervor, die vom vergleichsweise umfassenden politischen System Botswanas bis zum kaum noch existierenden somalischen Staat reichen. Die meisten Beiträge untersuchen zugleich die übrigen gesellschaftlichen Akteure und kommen so zu Einschätzungen, ob, wie und durch wen gesellschaftliche Entwicklung angestoßen werden kann. (DÜI-Sbd)

When the oppressive Marxist-Leninst dictatorship of the Derg collapsed in 1991, there was hope that a new era might begin for a democratic Ethiopia. However, backed by the United States, the Ethiopian Peoples Revolutionary Front established a government that would not share power. Instead of a transition to democracy, the EPRF denied opposition parties meaningful participation in elections, violated human rights, and intensified ethnic distrust among the people. According to critics, repressions of the government are on a scale equivalent to those of the world's worst dictatorships. Vestal exa

This book covers developments from the 1960s to the present as background for an analysis of the continuing conflict since 1990 between the regime and political opposition over democratization in Cameroon. Based on research in Cameroon between 1989 and 1995 in the form of interviews, independent press articles, and major political parties' writings, the author details political confrontations in the context of a sharply declining economy and a society wrought with ethnic, linguistic, and constitutional tensions. The authors show how the competitive stakes rise as a previously effective political class faces unsubdued challenges to its hegemony over major enterprises. The uncertainty is heightened by the fact that no coherent alliance or potentially successor group has yet emerged from the opposition forces, which now operate across Cameroon's social landscape. (DÜI-Hff)