Commonwealth & Comparative Politics articles from March 1 2004

Commonwealth & Comparative Politics archives from March 1 2004

The coming Anarchy in Oceania? A critique of the 'Africanisation' of the South Pacific thesis.
March 1, 2004... This article considers claims, in the wake of coups in Fiji and the Solomon Islands in 2000, that the Pacific region is experiencing 'African'-style difficulties. It argues that the Africanisation thesis is analytically weak, internally...

Reconstructing Sierra Leone.
March 1, 2004... Sierra Leone's ten-year civil conflict ended in 2001 and was followed by a substantial reconstruction project. This article considers how far that programme addresses the underlying factors' predisposing Sierra Leone to internal conflict and to...

The democratic qualities of competitive elections: participation, competition and legitimacy in Africa.
March 1, 2004... This article analyses the democratic qualities of core institutions of representative democracy: multiparty elections. Focusing on the three basic democratic values participation, competition and legitimacy, the empirical examination of Africa...

UK African policy in the post-cold war era: from realpolitik to moralpolitik?
March 1, 2004... The end of the Cold War led Western states to review their policies towards Africa. Against this background, the British government under John Major stressed the need for 'new thinking' while the Blair administration promised to give 'a new...

'Betwixt and between': the South African state's search for autonomy in the face of globalisation.
March 1, 2004... Late-coming involves benefits as well as costs. As one of the latest surfers on the 'Third Wave of Democratisation' South Africa can draw on a much more supportive international environment as it struggles towards democratic consolidation than...

Mapping Canadian Federalism for India.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Mapping Canadian Federalism for India edited by Rekha Saxena (New Delhi: Konark, 2002, Rs.600). In K.C. Wheare's classic treatise on federalism, Canada and India were deemed to have quasi-federal constitutions. Emanating from this...

Australian Politics and Government. The Commonwealth, the States and the Territories.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Australian Politics and Government. The Commonwealth, the States and the Territories edited by Jeremy Moon and Campbell Sharman (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003, pp.xiv + 322, 47.50 [pounds sterling] hb; 17.95 [pounds sterling pb)....

From White Australia to Woomera: the Story of Australian Immigration.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... From White Australia to Woomera: The Story of Australian Immigration by James Jupp (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002, pp.xi + 243, 47.50 [pounds sterling] hb). Australia is not only an immigrant society but, as James Jupp...

India Unbound: from Independence to the Global Information Age.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... India Unbound: From Independence to the Global Information Age by Gurcharan Das (New Delhi: Viking. Reissued 2002, pp.430, 9.99 [pounds sterling] pb). The argument developed in the first two-thirds of this book is that the Indian economy...

From Cape to Congo: Southern Africa's Evolving Security Challenges.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... From Cape to Congo: Southern Africa's Evolving Security Challenges edited by Mwesiga Baregu and Christopher Landsberg (Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 2003, pp.x + 401, 17.95 [pounds sterling]). The main premise of this book is that the 'tools'...

Better Governance and Public Policy: Capacity Building and Democratic Renewal in Africa.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Better Governance and Public Policy: Capacity Building and Democratic Renewal in Africa edited by Dele Olowu and Soumana Sako (Bloomfield: Kumarian Press, 2003, pp.244, 49.50 [pounds sterling] hb; 20.50 [pounds sterling] pb). The book sets...

Politics in South Africa (from Mandela to Mbeki).(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Politics in South Africa (from Mandela to Mbeki) by Tom Lodge (Oxford: James Currey, 2003, pp.314, 14.95 [pounds sterling] pb). Politics in South Africa is a much expanded, revised and updated new version of Tom Lodge's earlier slim volume,...

Liquidation of Empire: the Decline of the British Empire.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Liquidation of Empire: The Decline of the British Empire by Roy Douglas (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002, pp.viii + 190, 42.50 [pounds sterling] hb). Liquidation of Empire is a brief survey of the British Empire and its fate in the...

Sub-State Nationalism: a Comparative Analysis of Institutional Design.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Sub-State Nationalism: A Comparative Analysis of Institutional Design by Helena Catt and Michael Murphy (New York: Routledge, 2002, pp.224, US$90.00). In Sub-State Nationalism, Catt and Murphy provide a comparative analysis of several...