Limits of Anarchy: Intervention and State Formation in ChadThe emergence and disintegration of states, often under conditions of appalling violence, is a problem of primary importance in the world. Chad's long experience of civil strife and foreign intervention illustrates some of the fundamental difficulties involved in the attempt to achieve political stability through armed intervention. Covering Chad's thirty years of civil strife, Limits of Anarchy looks at foreign intervention in Chad's civil war and the effects of such intervention on state construction. The first major study of Chad to appear in English for many years, the book pays particular attention to French, Chadian, and other African political reflections on the problem of Chad. Chadians still hope to construct a viable national state. Nolutshungu looks at their rival approaches to state building under external constraints and at reasons for their failure. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
1 | 27 |
Intervention and Reform | 65 |
Military Rule and Civil War | 92 |
Mediation and Intervention | 116 |
Regionalism and Peacekeeping | 141 |
State Reconstruction | 173 |
External War | 202 |
War and State Construction | 230 |
State and Polity | 268 |
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Abéché administration African Afrique alliance allies Aozou Strip Arab armed factions army attempt autonomy Bardaï base Buijtenhuijs bureaucratic Cameroon Chad's civil civilians coalition colonial conference conflict Déby Déby's democracy democratic dependence dictatorship dominance economic effective elite emergence ethnic external favor Faya-Largeau fighting foreign France France's French French military FROLINAT Goukouni groups GUNT GUNT's Habré Hissène Habré Ibid ideological Idriss Déby important independence interests intervenor intervention involved Islamic Kamougué Lagos Lagos Accord Le Monde leaders leadership Libyan Libyan troops Malloum mediation ment Mitterrand Monde movement N'Djamena negotiations neocolonial Nigeria North of Chad Northern officers Opération Manta Ouadi Doum Oumar Paris party peacekeeping force popular population position postcolonial president provoked Qadhafi rebel reconciliation regime regional relations rival role rule secure South Southern statehood strategy Sudan Tchad Tibesti tion tional Tombalbaye Tombalbaye's Toubou Tripoli United unity withdrawal Zaghawa
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