ISBN10: 0813916283, ISBN13: 9780813916286, [publisher: University Press of Virginia] Hardcover First Edition Cloth hardcover, xvi + 348 pages, NOT ex-library. Missing the front blank endpaper. Interior is clean, bright, untanned, free of inscriptions and stamps. Moderate pencil markings on 9 pages (else text is unmarked, each page has been carefully inspected). Age-spotting on upper page edges externally. Untorn dust jacket with two diagonal creases on flaps, gentle creasing along the edges, small scuff-marks on spine, signs of regular handling wear. -- The emergence and disintegration of states, often under conditions of appalling violence, is a problem of primary importance in the world. Chad's long experience of civil strife and foreign intervention illustrates some of the fundamental difficulties involved in the attempt to achieve political stability through armed intervention. Covering Chad's thirty years of civil strife, Limits of Anarchy looks at foreign intervention in Chad's civil war and the effects of such intervention on state construction. The first major study of Chad to appear in English for many years, the book pays particular attention to French, Chadian, and other African political reflections on the problem of Chad. Chadians still hope to construct a viable national state. Nolutshungu looks at their rival approaches to state building under external constraints and at reasons for their failure. -- Contents: Introduction; ...
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