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How should failed states in Africa be understood? Catherine Scott here critically engages with the concept of state failure and provides an historical reinterpretation. She shows that, although the concept emerged in the context of the post-Cold War new world order, the phenomenon has been attendant throughout (and even before) the development of the Westphalian state system. Contemporary failed states, however, differ from their historical counterparts in one fundamental respect: they fail within their existing borders and continue to be recognised as something that they are not. This peculiarity derives from international norms instituted in the era of decolonisation, which resulted in the inviolability of state borders and the supposed universality of statehood. Scott argues that contemporary failed states are, in fact, failed post-colonies. Thus understood, state failure is less the failure of existing states and more the failed rooting and institutionalisation of imported and reified models of Western statehood.
Drawing on insights from the histories of Uganda and Burundi, from pre-colonial polity formation to the present day, she explores why and how there have been failures to create effective and legitimate national states within the bounds of inherited colonial jurisdictions on much of the African continent.

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Catherine Scott is a teaching fellow in the Defence Studies Department at King's College London. She is Managing Editor of the journal Conflict, Security & Development and holds a PhD in International Politics and Security from King's College London.

Catherine Scott has produced a subtle and sophisticated critique of the failed state thesis and its application in Africa. She substantiates her forensic interrogation of the ideas, arguments and assumptions that now form the mainstay of this concept in the contexts of Burundi and Uganda, painstakingly charting each country's political development through European colonisation to the present day. She has much of importance to say, therefore, to scholars and students with interests in the state of the state in Africa and the political evolution of these countries. Her book deserves wide and careful reading.
J.N.C. Hill, Reader in Postcolonialism and the Maghreb, King's College London
Why do states fail particularly, why do African states fail? Catherine Scott takes to task the casual diagnosis of Western commentators, and interrogates and problematises their assumptions in a superb work of investigative history and sympathetic analysis.
Stephen Chan OBE, SOAS University of London
Catherine Scott's study of state failure is a major contribution to the burgeoning literature on this topic. It combines impressive theoretical insight with a fine empirical analysis from two well-researched case studies. The result offers a significant challenge to conventional wisdom. It will provide a valuable source of intellectual stimulus for scholars and lay readers alike.
J.E. Spence OBE FKC, King's College London
At a time when it is too often if incongruously assumed both that Western states provide the model that all others should emulate and that state failure is a peculiarly modern phenomenon, this book provides an important corrective. In a compelling analysis of several African cases, the author reveals the importance of taking the historical context seriously and the dangers of a one size fits all approach to the political problems of contemporary international society.
Professor James Mayall, Emeritus Fellow in International Relations, University of Cambridge

STATE FAILURE
IN SUB-SAHARAN
AFRICA
The Crisis of Post-Colonial Order
C ATHERINE S COTT

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Published in 2017 by
I.B.Tauris & Co. Ltd
London New York
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Copyright 2017 Catherine Scott
The right of Catherine Scott to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by the author in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in a review, this book, or any part thereof, may not be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher.
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References to websites were correct at the time of writing.
International Library of African Studies 55
ISBN: 978 1 78453 965 8
eISBN: 978 1 78672 210 2
ePDF: 978 1 78673 210 1
A full CIP record for this book is available from the British Library
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Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: available

For Reg and Annie
In Memoriam
CONTENTS

ACRONYMS

AMIBAfrican Union Mission in Burundi
BEABritish East Africa
BINUBUnited Nations Integrated Office in Burundi
BNUBUnited Nations Office in Burundi
CMSChurch Missionary Society
DDRdisarmament, demobilisation and reintegration
DfIDDepartment for International Development
DRCDemocratic Republic of the Congo
EUEuropean Union
FSIFailed/Fragile States Index
HIPCheavily indebted poor country
IBEACImperial British East Africa Company
ICCInternational Criminal Court
IMFInternational Monetary Fund
KARKing's African Rifles
LICUSlow-income countries under stress
NATONorth Atlantic Treaty Organisation
NGOnon-governmental organisation
OAUOrganisation of African Unity
OECDOrganisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
ONUBUnited Nations Operation in Burundi
PARMEHUTUParty of the Hutu Emancipation Movement
RPFRwandan Patriotic Front
SAPsstructural adjustment programmes
SAPSDSouth Africa Protection Support Detachment
SF/PITFState Failure/Political Instability Task Force
SPLASudan Peoples Liberation Army
UKUnited Kingdom
UNUnited Nations
USUnited States (of America)
USSRUnion of Soviet Socialist Republics
Burundi
ADCAlliance of Democrats for Change in Burundi
CMSNMilitary Committee for National Salvation
CNDDNational Council for the Defence of Democracy
CNDD-FDDNational Council for the Defence of Democracy - Front for the Defence of Democracy
FAPPeoples Armed Forces
FDNNational Defence Force
FNLNational Liberation Force
FRODEBUBurundi Democratic Front
FROLINAFront for Democracy
GCAGlobal Ceasefire Agreement
JRRJeunesses Rvolutionaires Rwagasore
MRCMovement for the Rehabilitation of the Citizen
NRCNational Revolutionary Council
PALIPEHUTUParty for the Liberation of the Hutu People
PARENAParty for National Recovery
PDCChristian Democratic Party
PPPeoples Party
RPBBurundian Peoples Rally
UPDUnited for Peace and Development
UPRONAParty of National Unity and Progress
Uganda
ADFAllied Democratic Forces
CPConservative Party
DPDemocratic Party
FEDEMUFederal Democratic Movement of Uganda
FUNAFormer Uganda National Army
HSMFHoly Spirit Mobile Forces
KYKabaka Yekka
LCLocal Council
LRALords Resistance Army
NCCNational Consultative Council
NRANational Resistance Army
NRCNational Resistance Council
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