Self-Determination and Secession in Africa

The Post-Colonial State
Herausgeber: Bereketeab, Redie

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides a unique comparative study of the major secessionist and self-determination movements in post-colonial Africa, examining theory, international law, charters of the United Nations, and the Organisation of African Unity (OAU)/African Union's (AU) stance on the issue. The book explores whether self-determination and secessionism lead to peace, stability, development and democratisation in conflict-ridden societies, particularly looking at the outcomes in Eritrea and South Sudan. The book covers all the major attempts at self-determination and secession on the continent, extensively analysing the geo-political, economic, security and ideological factors that determine the outcome of the quest for self-determination and secession. It reveals the lack of inherent clarity in international law, social science theories, OAU/AU Charter, UN Charters and international conventions concerning the topic. This is a major contribution to the field and highly relevant for researchers and postgraduate students in African Studies, Development Studies, African Politics and History, and Anthropology.

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Produktdetails

• Routledge Studies in African Development
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. März 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 438g
• ISBN-13: 9781138659735
• ISBN-10: 1138659738
• Artikelnr.: 45330042

Autorenporträt

Redie Bereketeab is Senior Researcher at the Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala University, Sweden.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Conceptions, International law and Charters 1. Self-determination
and Secession: African Challenges 2. Acquisition of Autonomy: The Right of
Self-Determination in International Law 3. The OAU Doctrine on Colonial
Boundaries and Conflicts of Separation in the Horn of Africa Part 2:
Non-Colonial Creation Successful Secession Case: South Sudan 4. Political
History of Southern Sudan before Independence of the Sudan 5. Sudan First
Civil War for Self-determination 6. Second Civil War Creation of the United
"New Sudan" Part 3: Colonial Creation Unsuccessful Cases of
Self-Determination: Somaliland and Zanzibar 7. Guests in our Houses:
Somaliland and British Colonialism 8. Less and more than the Sum of Its
Parts: The Failed Merger of Somaliland and Somalia and the Tragic Quest for
'Greater Somalia' 9. Identifying Challenges against Winning an
International Recognition and its Prospects: The Case of Somaliland 10. The
Zanzibar Secessionist Sentiments: Can regional integration theory provide
insights into the phenomenon? Part 4: Identity Groups Claiming Secession
that Failed 11. Why Katanga's Quest for Self-determination and Secession
Failed 12. Nigeria and the Biafran War of Secession 13. The Paradoxes of
Secessionism among Tuarag in Northern Mali Part 5: Colonially Created,
Annexed by Neighbouring Countries Cases 14. Namibia's Negotiation to
Independence 15. Eritrea a Colonial Creation: A Case of Aborted
Decolonisation 16. The Arduous Quest of the Saharawi People for
Self-Determination: The Complexities of Unachieved Decolonization