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The Rise and Decline of the Zairian State

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Crawford Young and Thomas Edwin Turner
2013
Published by: University of Wisconsin Press
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Zaire, apparently strong and stable under Presdident Mobutu in the early 1970s, was bankrupt and discredited by the end of that decade, beset by hyperinflation and mass corruption, the populace forced into abject poverty. Why and how, in a new african state strategically located in Central Africa and rich in mineral resources, did this happen? How did the Zairian state become a “parasitic predator” upon its own people?

Table of Contents

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Cover

pp. 1-1

Title Page, Copyright

pp. 2-5

Contents

pp. 6-7

Illustrations and Figures

pp. vii-9

Maps

pp. ix-11

Tables

pp. xi-xii

Preface

pp. xiii-xvi

Acronyms

pp. xvii-xix

1. The State in Zaire: An Introductory Perspective

pp. 3-46

2. Zaire in the Mobutu Years: An Overview, 1965–1980

pp. 47-77

3. The State and Civil Society: Capital, Town, and Countryside

pp. 78-99

4. The Dynamics of Inequality: Class Formation

pp. 100-137

5. The Ethnic Dimension of Civil Society

pp. 138-163

6. The Patrimonial State and Personal Rule

pp. 164-184

7. In Pursuit of Legitimacy: Party and Ideology

pp. 185-220

8. Regional Administration

pp. 221-247

9. The Seventh Scourge: The Security Forces

pp. 248-275

10. Economic Policy during the Mobutu Years

pp. 276-325

11. Zairianization and Radicalization: Anatomy of a Disaster

pp. 326-362

12. Zaire in the International Arena

pp. 363-395

13. Conclusion: Crisis of the Zairian State

pp. 396-406

Notes

pp. 409-468

Index

pp. 469-500
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