1. Introduction: Posing the Problem of State Collapse / I. William Zartman -- 2. Reconstructing the State of Chad / William J. Foltz -- 3. State Collapse and Reconstruction in Uganda / Gilbert M. Khadiagala -- 4. Rawlings and the Engineering of Legitimacy in Ghana / Donald Rothchild -- 5. Somalia: A Terrible Beauty Being Born? / Hussein M. Adam -- 6. Liberia: Putting the State Back Together / Martin Lowenkopf -- 7. The Heritage of Revolution and the Struggle for Governmental Legitimacy in Mozambique / Barry Schutz -- 8. Remaking the Ethiopian State / Edmond Keller -- 9. The Collapse of the Socialist State: Angola and the Soviet Union / Leonid L. Fituni -- 10. Zaire: Collapsed Society, Surviving State, Future Polity / Herbert Weiss -- 11. Algeria: Reinstating the State or Instating a Civil Society? / Azzedine Layachi -- 12. South Africa: State Transition and the Management of Collapse / Sipho Shezi.

13. State Collapse: The Humanitarian Challenge to the United Nations / Francis Mading Deng -- 14. The Role of Foreign Intervention in African Reconstruction / Ibrahim A. Gambari -- 15. Democratization in Collapsed States / Marina Ottaway -- 16. Strongmen, State Formation, Collapse, and Reconstruction in Africa / Njuguna Ng'ethe -- 17. Putting Things Back Together / I. William Zartman.