
Political Instability in Guinea-Bissau
- 266 pages
- English
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Political Instability in Guinea-Bissau
About this book
How can we make sense of the persistent political instability in Guinea-Bissau, a small country that has hosted extensive international interventions and made world news headlines over several decades? This book tackles this question, arguing for the need to understand politics in Guinea-Bissau as intricately linked to and deeply embedded in transnational, regional and trans-regional dynamics.
Taking a multidimensional approach, the book brings together international scholars who have studied politics in Guinea-Bissau and Africa for many years, at different levels and from diverse perspectives. Together, the contributors provide an up-to-date analysis of crucial actors and processes, whilst also putting them in historical perspective. The volume connects the study of politics in Guinea-Bissau to a range of empirical phenomena and theoretical debates that have wider relevance far beyond its borders. In this way, it enables a better understanding of regional and international politics, demonstrating how apparently marginal cases are not marginal at all, but are actively entangled in broader multi-dimensional politics.
With important new perspectives and insights both on Guinea-Bissau, and wider regional dynamics, this book will be an important read for researchers and policy makers involved in African politics and security issues.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Endorsements
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- List of illustrations
- Abbreviations
- List of contributors
- Foreword
- Preface
- 1. Introduction: The multi-level politics of “instability” in Guinea-Bissau
- 2. Amílcar Cabral Today: Collective Memory and Social Narratives in Guinea-Bissau (and beyond)
- 3. The Leadership of João Bernardo “Nino” Vieira in Guinea-Bissau (1980–99 and 2005–09)
- 4. Betrayed Hopes – or the End of the Regime of Kumba Yalá
- 5. Non-developmental Neopatrimonialism in Guinea-Bissau and Political Instability
- 6. Instability in Guinea-Bissau Through an Analysis of its Political Institutions: Early 1990s until 2023
- 7. Resisting State Politics
- 8. The 2019 National Elections in Guinea-Bissau: A Quantitative Analysis of Religious and Ethnic Voting
- 9. Gender and Social and Political Instability: “Guiné-Bissau Padi Só Fidju Matchu!”
- 10. Institutional Conflict-Prevention Policies: The Case of Guinea-Bissau in West Africa (2012–18)
- 11. Regional Conflict Management and Global Politics: ECOWAS in Guinea-Bissau
- 12. Senegal and Guinea-Bissau: From Global to Regional Geopolitics?
- 13. Cocaine and Political (In)stability in Guinea-Bissau
- Index