Michael G Schatzberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 81573 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael G Schatzberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael G |
| FAMILY NAME | Schatzberg |
| SIGNATURE | SCHATZBERG M G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Johns Hopkins University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 190 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
The Paradox of Traditional Chiefs in Democratic Africa
This is a book worth reading because it deviates from received wisdom in an intelligent and engaging way. In doing so, Kate Baldwin explores a fascinating paradox, namely, that “the empowerment of unelected traditional leaders often improves the responsiveness of democratic governments” (p. 5). The particular democratic government in question is Zambia, but the author makes a credible argument that her findings can be generalized to other democra…
The Structural Roots of the DRC's Current Disasters: Deep Dilemmas
The staggering dilemmas facing the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) today have their structural roots in both the near and distant past. The purpose of this brief reflection is to consider the nature of these disasters and to deflect discussion away from those hardy perennials that somehow, usually incorrectly, pass as explanations of the Congo's problems. Ethnic tensions, corruption, and the absence of democracy all contribute in harmful w…
Les complexités de la « démocratie: La Fédération ougandaise de football en tant que « polity
À partir de l'étude de la chute politique de Denis Obua, président de longue date de la Fédération ougandaise de football association (Fufa), et à travers un examen du microcosme footballistique, cet article s'intéresse à la relation complexe entre l'État, des organisations apparemment non politiques comme la Fufa, et des institutions internationales. Il défend l'idée selon laquelle la Fufa appartient à un type d'organisation qui ne s'intègre dan…
Political Topographies of the African State: Territorial Authority and Institutional Choice
Catherine Boone examines political regionalism in Africa and how it affects forms of government, and prospects for democracy and development. Boone's study is set within the context of larger theories of political development in agrarian societies. It features a series of compelling case studies that focus on regions within Senegal, Ghana, and Cote d'Ivoire and ranges from 1930 to the present. The book will be of interest to readers concerned wit…
Kongo Political Culture: The Conceptual Challenge of the Particular
Wyatt Macgaffey, Kongo Political Culture: the conceptual challenge of the particular. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000, 272 pp., US$26.95, ISBN 0 253 33698 8 (hard covers). - Volume 73 Issue 3
Democracy in Africa
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Political Legitimacy in Middle Africa: Father, Family, Food
Explores the cultural underpinnings of political legitimacy in eight African countries.
La sorcellerie comme mode de causalité politique
Cet article tente de montrer que la sorcellerie doit être analysée à la fois comme un instrument d'action et d'interprétation politique qui fournit à nombre d'individus les moyens de « comprendre » le politique. Tout en soulignant l'influence des forces de l'invisible sur les comportements, il montre que celles-ci ne sont pas les seuls modes intellectuels de causalité politique. Dans le discours public contemporain, il y a une combinaison complex…
The Dynamics of Economic and Political Relations between Africa and Foreign Powers: A Study in International Relations
Preface The Dynamics of Political and Economic Relations Liberian=American Economic Relations: Social and Political Implications in Liberia Relations of Political Economy between Congo-Zaire and Belgium A General Conclusion: What Perspectives after the Cold War? Selected Bibliography Index
Beyond Mobutu: Kabila and the Congo
Beyond Mobutu: Kabila and the Congo Michael G. Schatzberg (bio) On 17 May 1997, the military forces of Laurent Kabila’s Alliance des Forces Démocratiques pour la Libération du Congo (AFDL) seized Kinshasa, ending dictator Mobutu Sese Seko’s long sway over the land that he had renamed Zaire. It had taken the insurgents less than eight months to march from east to west across the vast country and sweep away the decaying carcass of the once-powerful…
Mobutu or Chaos? The United States and Zaire, 1960-1990
Mobutu or Chaos? is the latest product of the Foreign Policy Research Institute's study on 'friendly tyrants.' Like its predecessors, it tackles the thorny question of how to deal with the pro-U.S. authoritarian regimes that have bedeviled U.S. foreign policy for the better part of forty years. The book chronicles the U.S. relations with Mobutu from their beginnings in the sixties when support for the ruler was justifiable by higher goals, throug…
Power, legitimacy and 'democratisation' in Africa
This article explores the cultural bases of political legitimacy in sub-Saharan Africa. It proceeds by concentrating on the language, imagery, and metaphors that Africans use to convey perceptions about politics and political life. After examining the nature of power and reflecting on the importance of political language, it presents four premises of a model called the moral matrix of legitimate governance, noting their relation to political legi…
The Dialectics of Oppression in Zaire
Democracy and Prebendal Politics in Nigeria: The Rise and Fall of the Second Republic
Politics and Society in Contemporary Africa
The Political Economy of Kenya: A Sais Study on Africa
The Dialectics of Oppression in Zaire
The Political Economy of Kenya
Military Intervention and the Myth of Collective Security: The Case of Zaïre
Zaïre has been open to external penetration from its earliest days as the Congo Independent State of King Léopold II, but unlike most other weak and vulnerable African states it has experienced repeated military interventions. When President Mobutu Sese Seko addressed the U.N. General Assembly in October 1973 he formally thanked the world organisation for preserving his country during the early 1960s:If a small minority of member countries of thi…
Social/Cultural Anthropology: Entrepreneurs and Parasites: The Struggle for Indigenous Capitalism in Zaire. Janet MacGaffey
The State and Economy in Kenya
Two Faces of Kenya: The Researcher and the State
When all Kenyans entrusted me with the leadership of this nation six years ago, I declared that I would continue to strengthen and defend all the fundamental principles upon which our nation was founded. I pledged to uphold the ideals of democracy, social justice and human dignity. I also stated that my leadership would always spring from the will of the people. It is my firm belief that the creation of a just and progressive society must always …
The Political Economy of Zimbabwe
Explaining Zaire
EXPLAINING ZAIRE Get access Mobutu: ou l'incarnation du mal Zairols, by Nguza Karl I. Bond. London: Rex Collings, 1982. 201 pp. £11.00 in UK. Accumulation et sous-développement au Zaire 1960–1980, by Fernand Bezy, Jean-Philippe Peemans and Jean-Marie Wautelet. Louvain-la-Neuve: Presses Universitaires de Louvain, 1981. 245 pp. No price given. MICHAEL G. SCHATZBERG MICHAEL G. SCHATZBERG Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Goog…
Power, legitimacy and 'democratisation' in Africa
This article explores the cultural bases of political legitimacy in sub-Saharan Africa. It proceeds by concentrating on the language, imagery, and metaphors that Africans use to convey perceptions about politics and political life. After examining the nature of power and reflecting on the importance of political language, it presents four premises of a model called the moral matrix of legitimate governance, noting their relation to political legi…
Political Legitimacy in Middle Africa: Father, Family, Food
Explores the cultural underpinnings of political legitimacy in eight African countries.
The Dialectics of Oppression in Zaire
Beyond Mobutu: Kabila and the Congo
Beyond Mobutu: Kabila and the Congo Michael G. Schatzberg (bio) On 17 May 1997, the military forces of Laurent Kabila’s Alliance des Forces Démocratiques pour la Libération du Congo (AFDL) seized Kinshasa, ending dictator Mobutu Sese Seko’s long sway over the land that he had renamed Zaire. It had taken the insurgents less than eight months to march from east to west across the vast country and sweep away the decaying carcass of the once-powerful…
Mobutu or Chaos? The United States and Zaire, 1960-1990
Mobutu or Chaos? is the latest product of the Foreign Policy Research Institute's study on 'friendly tyrants.' Like its predecessors, it tackles the thorny question of how to deal with the pro-U.S. authoritarian regimes that have bedeviled U.S. foreign policy for the better part of forty years. The book chronicles the U.S. relations with Mobutu from their beginnings in the sixties when support for the ruler was justifiable by higher goals, throug…
The Dynamics of Economic and Political Relations between Africa and Foreign Powers: A Study in International Relations
Preface The Dynamics of Political and Economic Relations Liberian=American Economic Relations: Social and Political Implications in Liberia Relations of Political Economy between Congo-Zaire and Belgium A General Conclusion: What Perspectives after the Cold War? Selected Bibliography Index
Two Faces of Kenya: The Researcher and the State
When all Kenyans entrusted me with the leadership of this nation six years ago, I declared that I would continue to strengthen and defend all the fundamental principles upon which our nation was founded. I pledged to uphold the ideals of democracy, social justice and human dignity. I also stated that my leadership would always spring from the will of the people. It is my firm belief that the creation of a just and progressive society must always …
The Political Economy of Zimbabwe
Politics and Class in Zaire: Bureaucracy, Business and Beer in Lisala
La sorcellerie comme mode de causalité politique
Cet article tente de montrer que la sorcellerie doit être analysée à la fois comme un instrument d'action et d'interprétation politique qui fournit à nombre d'individus les moyens de « comprendre » le politique. Tout en soulignant l'influence des forces de l'invisible sur les comportements, il montre que celles-ci ne sont pas les seuls modes intellectuels de causalité politique. Dans le discours public contemporain, il y a une combinaison complex…
The Dialectics of Oppression in Zaire
Ethnicity and Class at the Local Level: Bars and Bureaucrats in Lisala, Zaire
The Structural Roots of the DRC's Current Disasters: Deep Dilemmas
The staggering dilemmas facing the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) today have their structural roots in both the near and distant past. The purpose of this brief reflection is to consider the nature of these disasters and to deflect discussion away from those hardy perennials that somehow, usually incorrectly, pass as explanations of the Congo's problems. Ethnic tensions, corruption, and the absence of democracy all contribute in harmful w…
Le Mal Zairois: Why Policy Fails in Zaire
IN JANUARY 1973 President Mobutu promulgated Law 73-015, a new statute concerning the territorial and administrative organization of Zaire. The law was a sweeping, yet ill-fated, attempt to reform the nation's existing administrative structure. My aim here is neither to recount nor analyze all of the changes which the new law was designed to initiate, but to emphasize those provisions affecting the basic units of local government and administrati…
Politics and Class in Zaire: Bureaucracy, Business and Beer in Lisala
Political Topographies of the African State: Territorial Authority and Institutional Choice
Catherine Boone examines political regionalism in Africa and how it affects forms of government, and prospects for democracy and development. Boone's study is set within the context of larger theories of political development in agrarian societies. It features a series of compelling case studies that focus on regions within Senegal, Ghana, and Cote d'Ivoire and ranges from 1930 to the present. The book will be of interest to readers concerned wit…
The State and Economy in Kenya
Fidélité au Guide: The J.M.P.R. in Zaïrian Schools
Mon travail c'est pour former et encadrer la jeunesse dans le bon chemin et dans la fidélité au Guide; à l'attachement inconditionnel au PrésidentFondateur. Pour leur apprendre à être responsable, être productif. Pour leur préparer à leur vie future comme l'élite du pays. – a J.M.P.R. leader 1
Fidélité au Guide: The J.M.P.R. in Zaïrian Schools
Mon travail c'est pour former et encadrer la jeunesse dans le bon chemin et dans la fidélité au Guide; à l'attachement inconditionnel au PrésidentFondateur. Pour leur apprendre à être responsable, être productif. Pour leur préparer à leur vie future comme l'élite du pays. – a J.M.P.R. leader 1
Politics and Class in Zaire: Bureaucracy, Business and Beer in Lisala
Politics and Class in Zaire: Bureaucracy, Business and Beer in Lisala
Politics and Class in Zaire: Bureaucracy, Business and Beer in Lisala
The State and the Economy: The 'Radicalization of the Revolution' in Mobutu's Zaire
Le 30 décembre 1974 le président Mobutu a déclaré que désormais la révolution zaïroise est entrée dans sa nouvelle phase. Les changements importants ont été introduits dans la politique économique du pays. Certaines entreprises auparavant “zaïrianisées” (appartenant aux étrangers elle furent attribuées aux particuliers de nationalité zaïroise) ont été reprises par l'État et leur direction confiée aux personnalités nommées par le Président.L'artic…
Ethnicity and Class at the Local Level: Bars and Bureaucrats in Lisala, Zaire
Politics and Class in Zaire: Bureaucracy, Business and Beer in Lisala
Developing Africa's Urban Centers
Politics and Class in Zaire: Bureaucracy, Business and Beer in Lisala
Books/Livres
The U. N. in the Congo: The Political and Civilian Efforts
Le Mal Zairois: Why Policy Fails in Zaire
IN JANUARY 1973 President Mobutu promulgated Law 73-015, a new statute concerning the territorial and administrative organization of Zaire. The law was a sweeping, yet ill-fated, attempt to reform the nation's existing administrative structure. My aim here is neither to recount nor analyze all of the changes which the new law was designed to initiate, but to emphasize those provisions affecting the basic units of local government and administrati…
Explaining Zaire
EXPLAINING ZAIRE Get access Mobutu: ou l'incarnation du mal Zairols, by Nguza Karl I. Bond. London: Rex Collings, 1982. 201 pp. £11.00 in UK. Accumulation et sous-développement au Zaire 1960–1980, by Fernand Bezy, Jean-Philippe Peemans and Jean-Marie Wautelet. Louvain-la-Neuve: Presses Universitaires de Louvain, 1981. 245 pp. No price given. MICHAEL G. SCHATZBERG MICHAEL G. SCHATZBERG Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Goog…
The Political Economy of Zimbabwe
Two Faces of Kenya: The Researcher and the State
When all Kenyans entrusted me with the leadership of this nation six years ago, I declared that I would continue to strengthen and defend all the fundamental principles upon which our nation was founded. I pledged to uphold the ideals of democracy, social justice and human dignity. I also stated that my leadership would always spring from the will of the people. It is my firm belief that the creation of a just and progressive society must always …
The State and Economy in Kenya
The Political Economy of Kenya
Military Intervention and the Myth of Collective Security: The Case of Zaïre
Zaïre has been open to external penetration from its earliest days as the Congo Independent State of King Léopold II, but unlike most other weak and vulnerable African states it has experienced repeated military interventions. When President Mobutu Sese Seko addressed the U.N. General Assembly in October 1973 he formally thanked the world organisation for preserving his country during the early 1960s:If a small minority of member countries of thi…
Social/Cultural Anthropology: Entrepreneurs and Parasites: The Struggle for Indigenous Capitalism in Zaire. Janet MacGaffey
Politics and Society in Contemporary Africa
The Political Economy of Kenya: A Sais Study on Africa
The Dialectics of Oppression in Zaire
The Dialectics of Oppression in Zaire
Democracy and Prebendal Politics in Nigeria: The Rise and Fall of the Second Republic
Power, legitimacy and 'democratisation' in Africa
This article explores the cultural bases of political legitimacy in sub-Saharan Africa. It proceeds by concentrating on the language, imagery, and metaphors that Africans use to convey perceptions about politics and political life. After examining the nature of power and reflecting on the importance of political language, it presents four premises of a model called the moral matrix of legitimate governance, noting their relation to political legi…
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