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States and Power in Africa: Comparative Lessons in Authority and Control

Jeffrey Herbst · Princeton University Press · 2000

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Book
Author
Jeffrey Herbst
Identifier
DOI 10.23943/princeton/9780691164137.001.0001
Accessed
2026-09-01
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DOI is the revised edition with a new preface; first edition 2000.

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TheoryScholars of other regions argue that the bellicist model travels poorly: Herbst argued that European-derived theories fail to explain state creation in Africa, where power and space interacted very differently, and Centeno found that in relatively peaceful Latin America war destroyed institutions and confirmed internal divisions rather than building nation-states.