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Haunted Structures: Agents and Violent Conflicts in Post-colonial African State Formation Discerning the Powers in Post-Colonial Africa and Asia pp 27-49 | Cite as Pak Nung Wong (1) 1. Department of Politics, Languages and International Studies, University of Bath, Bath, UK Chapter 165 Downloads
Abstract A viable sociology of the powers should be able to account for the structural workings of evilness in post-colonial state formation: neo-colonialism. As a result, this chapter aims to theoretically stipulate and empirically substantiate how do the colonially hailed structural properties of the African state are historically connected with such post-colonial evils as violent conflicts, humanitarian crises and underdevelopment. Departing from such global–historical–structural approach, it further ponders why and how the post-colonial African agents ended up perpetuating the evil of neocolonialism.
Keywords Neo-colonialism Post-colonial African state formation Structural evilness Underdevelopment Violent conflicts This is a preview of subscription content, log in to check access
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