A Review of: “Africa: Unity, Sovereignty, and Sorrow. By Pierre Englebert.”

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¹See United Nations Development Programme, Human Development Report 2009. Overcoming Barriers: Human Mobility and Development (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), 143–145.

²Freedom House, Freedom in the World, 2010 Edition, available at http://freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=363&year=2010 (accessed August 1, 2010).

⁵Patrick Chabal, Power in Africa: An Essay in Political Interpretation (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992), 120–121.

³George B. N. Ayittey, Africa in Chaos (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998), 278.

⁴See J. Peter Pham, “African Constitutionalism: Forging New Models for Multi-Ethnic Governance and Self-Determination,” in Africa: Mapping New Boundaries in International Law, ed. Jeremy I. Levitt (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2008), 183–203.

⁶See Pierre Englebert, State Legitimacy and Development in Africa (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2000).

⁷See Robert H. Jackson and Carl G. Rosberg, “Why Africa's Weak States Persist: The Empirical and Juridical in Statehood,” World Politics 35, no. 1 (October 1982): 1–24.

⁸See William Reno, Warlord Politics in African States (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 1999).

⁹J. Peter Pham, Liberia: Portrait of a Failed State (New York: Reed Press, 2004), 124.

¹⁰See idem, “Not Another Failed State: Toward a Realistic Solution in the Western Sahara,” Journal of the Middle East and Africa 1, no. 1 (January–June 2010): 1–24; also see idem, review of Somaliland: An African Struggle for Nationhood and International Recognition, by Iqbal D. Jhazbhay, Journal of the Middle East and Africa 1, no. 1 (January–June 2010): 139–144.

¹¹See idem, “Imagining the Congo Secure and Stable,” RUSI Journal 153, no. 6 (December 2008): 38–43, in which this reviewer argued with respect to the DRC: “It may be time to recognise that the far more sustainable path is to allow local polities the space to coalesce as they will and to arrive at resolutions which their peoples find adequate for their own security and in conformity with their traditional notions of legitimacy … Quite simply, the Congo may be too immense and its problems so great that, without significant innovation in how the international community approaches the challenges, it is impossible to envisage real peace and stability, much less sustainable development.”

¹²Idem, “Do Not Resuscitate,” The National Interest 94 (March–April 2008): 21.

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J. Peter Pham

J. PETER PHAM, associate professor of justice studies, political science, and Africana studies at James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia, and senior vice president of the National Committee on American Foreign Policy, New York, New York, is vice president of the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa (ASMEA) and editor-in-chief of the Journal of the Middle East and Africa.