Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Observing the business of power
2. The Political Marketplace: Politics is Business and Business is Politics
3. The Horn of Africa: Subcontinental war in three acts
4. Darfur: The auction of loyalties
5. Sudan: Managing the unmanageable
6. South Sudan: The boom and bust of a speculative bubble
7. Somalia: A post-apocalypse workshop
8. Somaliland: A business-social contract
9. Eritrea: A museum of modernism
10. Ethiopia: Is state-building still possible?
11. Transnational Patronage: Shadow globalization and the regional marketplace
12. The Politics of Ideas: Perplexed intellectuals and policymakers

About the Author

ALEX DE WAAL is Executive Director of the World Peace Foundation and a Research Professor at The Fletcher School, Tuft s University.

Reviews

"The foremost Western analyst of the Horn of Africa, Alex de Waal provides a superb account of the region's highly interdependent and often troubling politics. He combines an anthropologist's attention to local contexts with a political economist's analysis of transnational entanglements of markets, power struggles, and war. Often disturbing, even though de Waal seeks reasons to be hopeful, but a must read."
Craig Calhoun, London School of Economics and Political Science "An outstanding book. The author's knowledge of the topic and region is unrivalled, and enlivened and enlightened by his personal experience and anecdotes"
Padraig Carmody, Trinity College, Dublin