{"product_id":"the-real-politics-of-the-horn-of-africa-money-war-and-the-business-of-power-hardback-9780745695570","title":"The Real Politics of the Horn of Africa; Money, War and the Business of Power (Hardback) 9780745695570","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Real Politics of the Horn of Africa\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eMoney, War and the Business of Power\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAlex de Waal (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780745695570, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 11 September 2015\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e220 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.6 x 16 x 2.7 cm, 0.544 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\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\n\u003cp\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\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\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Real Politics of the Horn of Africa\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDrawing on a thirty-year career in Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea and Somalia, including experience as a participant in high-level peace talks, Alex de Waal provides a unique and compelling account of how these countries’ leaders run their governments, conduct their business, fight their wars and, occasionally, make peace. De Waal shows how leaders operate on a business model, securing funds for their ‘political budgets’ which they use to rent the provisional allegiances of army officers, militia commanders, tribal chiefs and party officials at the going rate. This political marketplace is eroding the institutions of government and reversing statebuildingÑand it is fuelled in large part by oil exports, aid funds and western military assistance for counter-terrorism and peacekeeping.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Real Politics of the Horn of Africa\u003c\/i\u003e is a sharp and disturbing book with profound implications for international relations, development and peacemaking in the Horn of Africa and beyond.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003col\u003e \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\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Society \u0026amp; culture: general [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Society \u0026amp; culture: general\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Society%20\u0026amp;%20culture:%20general%20%5BJF%5D%22\"\u003eJF\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Polity","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52407342367000,"sku":"9780745695570","price":49.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9780745695570.jpg?v=1784163585","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-real-politics-of-the-horn-of-africa-money-war-and-the-business-of-power-hardback-9780745695570","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}