Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Theoretical and Methodological Considerations
3. Mauritania's Colonels: A Portrayal
4. Unworkable Co-Habitation: The 'National Question'
5. Democratization and Military Withdrawal
6. The Challenge of Socioeconomic Development
7. The Colonels' Foreign Policy: An Extension of the 'National Question'?
8. Conclusions

About the Author

Boubacar N'Diaye is a professor of Africana Studies and Political Science at The College of Wooster, USA.