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050	0	4	_aDT543 _b.S635 2017
049			_aMAIN
100	1		_aMcGovern, Mike, _e1
245	1	0	_aA socialist peace? : _bexplaining the absence of war in an African country / _cMike McGovern.
260			_aChicago ; _aLondon : _bThe University of Chicago Press, _c(c)2017.
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520	8		_aFor the last twenty years, the West African nation of Guinea has exhibited all the characteristics that have correlated with civil wars in other countries, and Guineans themselves regularly talk about the inevitability of war tearing their country apart. Yet the country has narrowly avoided civil conflict again and again. Mike McGovern asks how this was possible, how a nation could beat the odds and evade civil war. All six of Guinea's neighbors have experienced civil war or separatist insurgency in the past twenty years. Guinea itself has similar makings for it. It is rich in resources, yet its people are some of the poorest in the world. Its political situation is polarized by fiercely competitive ethnic groups. Weapons flow freely through its lands and across its borders. And, finally, it is still recovering from the oppressive regime of Sekou Toure. Yet it is that aspect which McGovern points to: while Toure's reign was hardly peaceful, it was successful often through highly coercive and violent measures at establishing a set of durable national dispositions, which have kept the nation at peace. Exploring the ambivalences of contemporary Guineans toward the afterlife of Tour 's reign as well as their abiding sense of socialist solidarity, McGovern sketches the paradoxes that can undergird political stability.
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655		1	_aElectronic Books.
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell