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Reformism and Revisionism in Africa's Political Economy in the 1990s

The Dialectics of Adjustment

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  • © 1993

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Authors:
  1. Timothy M. Shaw

    1. Dalhousie University, Canada

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Table of contents (5 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction: Beyond the Dialectics of Dependence

    • Timothy M. Shaw
    Pages 1-58

  3. The African Condition: From Crisis to Conjuncture

    • Timothy M. Shaw
    Pages 59-102

  4. The Continent in the 1990s: New Factors and Forces

    • Timothy M. Shaw
    Pages 103-128

  5. Into the Twenty-first Century: Marginal or Central?

    • Timothy M. Shaw
    Pages 129-150

  6. Conclusion: African Studies and African States

    • Timothy M. Shaw
    Pages 151-177

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 179-215
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About this book

This timely text reevaluates the contemporary political economy of Africa in the light of continuing economic and ecological crises, changing perceptions and prescriptions, and transformations in global economic and strategic relations. It treats hitherto overlooked issues such as gender and informal sectors and examines proliferating conditionalities, such as democratic structures and military expenditures. It suggests that established perspectives need to be superceded by revisionist approaches and it anticipates disappointment with current structural adjustment programmes, advocating instead a return to various forms of self-reliance.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Dalhousie University, Canada

    Timothy M. Shaw

About the author

Tim Shaw is Research Professor and Graduate Program Director in Global Governance and Human Security at the University of Massachusetts Boston, USA and Emeritus Professor at the University of London, UK. He has an extraordinary record, both as a scholar and administrator, most recently as Professor and Director at the Institute of International Relations at the University of the West Indies, St Augustine in Trinidad; Associate Research Fellow at UNU Comparative Regional Integration Studies in Bruges and Senior Fellow at Centre for International Governance Innovation at the University of Waterloo. He has edited the International Political Economy series for Palgrave Macmillan for more than 30 years.

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