Africa: May 2005

Sovereignty Reconsidered

By: Letitia Lawson and Donald RothchildTest

Description: Africans "have begun moving away from colonially designed juridical statehood to fashion empirical formulas that respond to the messiness of their current realities. Only time will reveal whether these new, flexible structures prove an effective response to . . . state weakness."

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