{"product_id":"the-real-politics-of-the-horn-of-africa-9780745695587","title":"The Real Politics of the Horn of Africa","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Real Politics of the Horn of Africa delves into the business of politics in the turbulent, war-torn countries of north-east Africa. It is a contemporary history of how politicians, generals and insurgents bargain over money and power, and use of war to achieve their goals.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The foremost Western analyst of the Horn of Africa, Alex de Waal provides a superb account of the region's highly interdependent and often troubling politics. He combines an anthropologist's attention to local contexts with a political economist's analysis of transnational entanglements of markets, power struggles, and war. Often disturbing, even though de Waal seeks reasons to be hopeful, but a must read.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eCraig Calhoun, London School of Economics and Political Science\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"An outstanding book. The author's knowledge of the topic and region is unrivalled, and enlivened and enlightened by his personal experience and anecdotes\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePádraig Carmody, Trinity College, Dublin\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction: Observing the business of power \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Political Marketplace: Politics is Business and Business is Politics \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Horn of Africa: Subcontinental war in three acts \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDarfur: The auction of loyalties \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSudan: Managing the unmanageable \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSouth Sudan: The boom and bust of a speculative bubble \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSomalia: A post-apocalypse workshop \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSomaliland: A business-social contract \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEritrea: A museum of modernism \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEthiopia: Is state-building still possible? \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTransnational Patronage: Shadow globalization and the regional marketplace \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Politics of Ideas: Perplexed intellectuals and policymakers \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49404433596759,"sku":"9780745695587","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780745695587.jpg?v=1730486450","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-real-politics-of-the-horn-of-africa-9780745695587","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}