Alex de Waal Alex de Waal
Biographic Data
| ID | 7353180 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alex de Waal Alex de Waal |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alex de Waal Alex |
| FAMILY NAME | de Waal |
| SIGNATURE | DE WAAL A W A |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 1 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 1 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Commodification of African Politics I
Can a book be both inspiring and disappointing? The Real Politics of the Horn of Africa might just fall into this rare category. Alex de Waal’s book is theoretically original and empirically rich, but it is also reductionist and, in the case of Ethiopia, biased. The book makes sense of the Horn of Africa’s complex contemporary politics through the prism of three elements. Firstly, de Waal proposes an innovative theory centred on the idea of the ‘…
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The Commodification of African Politics I
Can a book be both inspiring and disappointing? The Real Politics of the Horn of Africa might just fall into this rare category. Alex de Waal’s book is theoretically original and empirically rich, but it is also reductionist and, in the case of Ethiopia, biased. The book makes sense of the Horn of Africa’s complex contemporary politics through the prism of three elements. Firstly, de Waal proposes an innovative theory centred on the idea of the ‘…
African history and culture analysis (1 works) · Commodification (1 works) · Economics (1 works) · Economy (1 works) · Epistemology (1 works) · French horn (1 works) · Law (1 works) · Philosophy (1 works) · Political economy (1 works) · Political science (1 works)