Democracy, the state and conflict in Africa
Session 3: “THINGS FALL APART AGAIN”? STATE COLLAPSE IN AFRICA
Group work assignment:
Please explain the concept of “resource curse” in Sub-Saharan Africa? Why could Botswana - a leading diamond exporter - “escape” the resource curse?
Kováčiková, Kristýna
Krakuvčíková, Natálie
Kroupa, David
Kůrová, Kateřina
Reading:
Rotberg, Robert
I., 2003: State failure and state weakness in a time of terror, Washington:
Brookings, pp. 1-23
Erdmann, Gero, 2003: Apocalyptic
triad: state failure, state disintegration and state collapse: structural
problems of democracy in Africa, in: ZVgl Polit
Wiss (2014) 8: 215–236