Africa
May 2002
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May Article Abstracts
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Title: Irrational Exuberance: The Clinton Administration in Africa
Author: Peter Rosenblum
"The [Clinton administration's] new African leaders policy was intended to be the story of peacemaking, partnership, and economic development. Instead, it became a subplot in a story of war, casualties, and the remaking of old African leaders."
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Title: Osama bin Laden's "Business" in Sudan
Author: Ann M. Lesch
"What was the importance of the Sudanese sojourn for Osama bin Laden? One can argue that, without the sanctuary in Sudan, the Arabs who had fought in Afghanistan would have dispersed. Some would have gone home; others would have scattered in exile. Over time, their strength would have waned and they would have had difficulty communicating and coordinating their efforts. . . . Without Sudan, bin Laden could not have incubated the networks that have caused such devastation in subsequent years."
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Title: Somalia: In the Crosshairs of the War on Terrorism
Author: Ken Menkhaus
"One lesson learned since September 11 is that the expanded war on terrorism has created a lens that tends to distort our vision of the complex political dynamics of countries like Somalia. Local political realities are not always assessed in their own right, but instead are interpreted through, and reduced to, the logic of the war on terrorism."
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Title: Zimbabwe: The Making of an Autocratic "Democracy"
Author: Robert B. Lloyd
"Two decades after independence, the fruits of President Robert Mugabe's rule are a rapidly declining economy, the systematic dismantling of constitutional government, growing political violence, a costly war in Congo, and international condemnation."
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Title: Africa's Other Story
Author: Ebere Onwudiwe
"Africa's well-known developmental political problems remain. . . . But these problems also exist in political communities in every other part of the world. More important, they do not exhaust the story of politics in Africa. For every horrific political story in Africa, there is another story of courageous and creative political enterprise accomplished under circumstances that those who live and vote in developed democracies could not even begin to imagine."
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Title: Book Reviews
Author: Sean Patrick Murphy William W. Finan Jr.
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Title: The Month in Review
An international chronology of events in March, country by country, day by day.
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Title: Letters
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Title: A map of Africa.
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