Limits of Anarchy: Intervention and State Formation in Chad (Carter G. Woodson Institute Series in Black Studies)

The 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 inervention 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 ofhter African political reflections on the problem of Chad. The 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 https://archive.org/details/nolutshungu_chad Chad; Tchad; united states of amerika; france; Libya; Nigeria; military intervention; foreign intervention; civil war; war; history of Africa; African history; Sahel; United Nations; UN; ONU; colonialism; neocolonialism; françafrique; wars; FROLINAT; Front de libération nationale du Tchad; National Liberation Front of Chad; GUNT; Gouvernement d'Union Nationale de Transition; Transitional Government of National Unity; OAU; Organisation de l'unité africaine; Organization of African Unity Documenting the experience of civil strife and foreign intervention in Chad, this text examines some of the fundamental difficulties involved. It pays particular attention to French, Chadian and other African political reflections on the problem of Chad. Sam C. Nolutshungu. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 323-342) And Index.