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The author examines how awkward, how ambiguous, how unsatisfactory, and often how tragic the enco...

This 1988 text traces the continuities between revolutionary Ethiopia and the development of a ce...

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Analyses African insurgencies and their relationship to the societies in which they are set and t...

What distinguishes the Horn of Africa from the rest of the continent and explains its political f...

Why is the Horn such a distinctive part of Africa? This book, by one of the foremost scholars of ...

First published in 1985, The Political Dilemmas of Military Regimes was written against the backd...

An excellent introductory textbook on the politics of Third World Countries, this book draws on e...