State, Conflict, and Democracy in Africa by Richard Joseph

State, Conflict, and Democracy in Africa by Richard Joseph

This volume explores the important dimensions of state formation and erosion, social conflict, and the gains and setbacks of democratization in contemporary Africa. It looks at the dominant patterns of political restructuring since the upheavals of the early 1990s.

Professor David Faulkner is Dean of Magna Carta College, Oxford, a private business school that he co-founded in 2007. He is also Professor at Hult International Business School and Professor Emeritus of Strategy at Royal Holloway, University of London. He was formerly official Student (Fellow) of
Christ Church, Oxford and Deputy Director of the Said Business School, Oxford University. He is an Oxford-educated economist by background, who has spent much of his early career as a strategic management consultant with McKinsey and Co and Arthur D. Little. He gained a Doctorate from Oxford
University (D.Phil.), researching into conditions for success in International Strategic Alliances. He has written and edited thirteen books including, The Oxford Handbook of Strategy (OUP).

Dr. Satu Teerikangas is Lecturer in Management at University College, London. She received her Ph.D. from Helsinki University of Technology. Her research centres on the management of M&A, and has been published in several journals, including the Journal of Management, Human Resource Management and
the British Journal of Management. She co-edits Special Issues on M&As for the Scandinavian Journal of Management and the European Journal of International Management, and co-chairs the M&A track at the European Academy of Management annual conference since 2008. Prior to an academic career, Dr.
Teerikangas worked for Shell in the Netherlands and the UK. She is on the editorial review board of the International Journal of Cross-Cultural Management.

Richard J. Joseph is Vice President for Academic Affairs at Hult International Business School, Boston, London, Dubai, Shanghai, and San Francisco. Previously he served on the faculty and administration of the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin. Prior to his academic
career, he worked as an investment banker at Lehman Brothers, a securities trader at Bear Stearns, an international banker at Citibank, and a mergers and acquisitions lawyer for the Bass Group, Fort Worth. A graduate magna cum laude of Harvard College (B.A.), Oxford University (M.Litt.), and the
University of Texas at Austin School of Law (J.D.), he is co-editor of Prentice Hall's Federal Taxation Series and has written numerous commentaries in the Financial Times, Christian Science Monitor, and Tax Notes International. His book, The Origins of the American Income Tax (Syracuse University
Press), explores the original intent, rationale, and effect of the early American income tax.

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ISBN 13	9781555875336
ISBN 10	1555875335
Title	State, Conflict, and Democracy in Africa
Author	Richard Joseph
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Lynne Rienner Publishers Inc
Year published	1998-11-30
Number of pages	600
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