"... a truly authoritative source." --Foreign Affairs
"... a valuable book for policy makers, multinational corporations, international organizations, and scholars who are interested in state formation in post-colonial Africa." --African Studies Review
Focusing on what the Zairian state is and does, Schatzberg examines how scarcity and insecurity have become twin motors of a dialectic of oppression, resulting in coercion, corruption, exploitation, and fear.
- ISBN10 0253206944
- ISBN13 9780253206947
- Publish Date 1 August 1991 (first published 1 September 1988)
- Publish Status Transferred
- Out of Print 10 July 2009
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Indiana University Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 208
- Language English