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d much needed contribution to debates within Africa on governance ors and contributors to this book have taken on the hugely significant ved wisdoms and generating constructive analyses of the linkages velopment. Christopher Cramer, Professor of Development Studies, tal Studies, University of London, England.
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forewords by eminent African scholars—Ben Turok, Johan Burger chapters that follow examine rent-seeking, patronage,
d governance. They engage with statehood, state-building and
e mainstream opinions of donors, funders, development banks, ental organisations and development organisations. They include enya’s changing demographics, state accountability in South
tem, Somalia’s prospects for state-building, urban development and rce mobilisation.
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STATE, GOVERNANCE AND DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA
F KHAN, E GRUNDLING, G RUITERS, Z NDEVU, B BALOYI (EDITORS)
The book opens with forewords by eminent African scholars, including Ben Turok and Mohamed Halfani. The chapters that follow examine rent-seeking, patronage, neopatrimonialism and bad governance. They engage with statehood, state-building and statecraft and challenge the mainstream opinions of donors, funders, development banks, international non-governmental organisations and development organisations.
They include the role of China in Africa, Kenya’s changing demographics, state accountability in South Africa’s dominant party system, Somalia’s prospects for state-building, urban development and routine violence, and resource mobilisation.
At a time in which core institutions are being tested -- the market, the rule of law, democracy, civil society and representative democracy – this book offers a much- needed multi- and inter-disciplinary perspective, and a different narrative on what is unfolding, while also exposing dynamics that are often overlooked.
ABOUT THE LEAD EDITOR
Firoz Khan is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Public Leadership, Stellenbosch University, focusing on Development Planning and Applied Economics. He has a PhD in Public and Development Management from Stellenbosch University, and a Master’s in Town and Regional Planning from the University of Natal (Durban). He is the co-editor with Thring, P. Housing Policy and Practice in Post-Apartheid South Africa (Heinemann, 2003) and the author of many book chapters and journal articles.
SUITABLE FOR
Politicians; government officials; staff and agents of donors and multilateral organisations; policy and governance think tanks; teachers, researchers and practitioners in the development and public administration schools and the NGO sector; civil society and activists, workers, advocates and champions; and students.
THE STRATEGIC CORPORAL REVISITED
Challenges facing combatants in 21st-century warfare
D LOVELL & DP BAKER (EDITORS)
As we enter an era of multidimensional warfare, and the pace of war trends towards ‘machine speed’, the importance of decisions made by junior military leaders--some of them with strategic impact--continues to grow exponentially. US Marine Corps General Charles C. Krulak coined the term ‘The Strategic Corporal’ nearly two decades ago, and it is
more relevant today than ever.
This book is the first scholarly analysis of the challenges facing Strategic Corporals – and those who seek to prepare and equip them – in the 21st century. The topics addressed include leadership and education, military culture, peacekeeping, counterinsurgency, cyberwarfare, and private military contractors and NGOs in the cvontemporary battlespace.
Also included is a historian’s reflection on General Krulak’s development of the ‘Strategic Corporal’ concept, and a practitioner’s response to the scholarly arguments contained in the book.
State, governance and development in Africa
Editors
Firoz Khan, Euonell Grundling, Greg Ruiters, Zwelinzima Ndevu and Basani Baloyi
978 1 77582 208 0 978 1 48511 763 6 2016
288 PAGES
ZAR R344.00 ZAR R344.00
978 1 77582 220 2 978 1 48511 571 7 2017
224 PAGES
ZAR R343.00 ZAR R343.00
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