Book review forum: Africa and the War on Drugs
Today we will launch a series of reviews of the new African Arguments publication, Africa and the War on Drugs by Neil Carrier and Gernot Klantschnig. And if you “like us” on Facebook, you can receive...
View ArticleA harvest of pleasure and pain: a review of Africa and the War on Drugs
One shorthand form to understand the global expansion of the drug trade and its routes is as an imperium of transnational traffickers taking over small, poor and defenceless countries: “across the...
View ArticleReview of Africa and the War on Drugs by Neil Carrier and Gernot Klantschnig
The publishers claim for Africa and the War on Drugs that it is a vital book on a neglected subject. The book is indeed timely and makes important points, but the subject is far from being overlooked,...
View ArticleAfrica and the War on Drugs–review round-up
October 2012 saw the publication of the latest book in the African Arguments series: ‘Africa and the War on Drugs’ by Gernot Klantschnig and Neil Carrier (published by Zed Books). African Arguments...
View ArticleReview: African and the War on Drugs
Africa and the War on Drugs by Neil Carrier and Gernot Klantschnig is a welcome addition to the literature on this dangerous menace that is threatening Africa’s security, governance and developmental...
View ArticleTrans-national Organized Crime in Africa: Whose problem?
Remarks at the Tana High-Level Forum on Security in Africa, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia, 20 April 2013. The first step in mastering a problem is to understand it, and to analyze the interests and logics of...
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From “A Farewell to Madiba”, a praise poem by Thabo Mbeki, delivered by him to the National Assembly, Cape Town, on 26 March 1999 You have walked along the road of the heroes and the heroines. You...
View ArticleAfrican Youth and Conflict:The Influence of Urbanization, Employment and...
In my presentation at the Youth, Conflict and Governance in Africa workshop at Yale University on March 1, 2014, I drew from findings and analysis in the third chapter of my forthcoming book, The...
View ArticleWhen kleptocracy becomes insolvent: Brute causes of the civil war in South Sudan
Alex de Waal has published a newly released article in African Affairs, “When kleptocracy becomes insolvent: Brute causes of the civil war in South Sudan.” Below is the abstract, full text available...
View ArticleHandmaiden to Africa’s Generals
By ALEX DE WAAL and ABDUL MOHAMMED, originally published in the New York Times, Aug. 15, 2014. SOMERVILLE, Mass. — Security is a core concern of the American government’s Africa policy. This was made...
View ArticleResearching African Peace Processes: Opportunities and Challenges
Hailing from Belarus, I spent most of my UN career working in Africa, or on issues related to the continent. From 1992-1994, for instance, I was part of the United Nations Observer Mission in South...
View ArticleOpen letter to Gayle Smith
Below is an excerpt from Alex de Waal’s “open letter to Gayle Smith, nominee for USAID administrator,” published by the Boston Review, June 15, 2015. […] I know you had enormous respect for Meles...
View ArticleLiberating African Economic History from the Tyranny of Econometrics
There is a longstanding joke about Sudanese statistics: 87.7% of official figures are made up on the spot. Morten Jerven’s fabulous short book is a vindication of such skepticism, continent-wide and...
View ArticleThe future of African Peacekeeping Missions: A shift from a militarized...
As of 31 March 2015, nine of the world’s 16 United Nations (UN) peacekeeping operations (PKO) with a total of 106,595 peacekeepers costing US $8.47 billion per annum are in Africa. These African...
View ArticleScott Straus: Making and Unmaking Nations
Why and how does genocide takes place—and why does it not happen in places where it may have seemed likely or even inevitable? This is the starting point of Scott Straus’ new book, Making and Unmaking...
View ArticleWhat leaders read
Alex de Waal’s recent blog included a long and interesting quote from Jean-Marie Guéhenno. In a way, Guéhenno would seem to be in agreement with Kissinger. They both seem to assert the importance of...
View ArticleBook review forum: Africa and the War on Drugs
Today we will launch a series of reviews of the new African Arguments publication, Africa and the War on Drugs by Neil Carrier and Gernot Klantschnig. And if you “like us” on Facebook, you can receive...
View ArticleA harvest of pleasure and pain: a review of Africa and the War on Drugs
One shorthand form to understand the global expansion of the drug trade and its routes is as an imperium of transnational traffickers taking over small, poor and defenceless countries: “across the...
View ArticleReview of Africa and the War on Drugs by Neil Carrier and Gernot Klantschnig
The publishers claim for Africa and the War on Drugs that it is a vital book on a neglected subject. The book is indeed timely and makes important points, but the subject is far from being overlooked,...
View ArticleAfrica and the War on Drugs–review round-up
October 2012 saw the publication of the latest book in the African Arguments series: ‘Africa and the War on Drugs’ by Gernot Klantschnig and Neil Carrier (published by Zed Books). African Arguments...
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