The United Nations and democracy in Africa : labyrinths of legitimacy

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Title:

Author:

Wilson, J. Zoë, 1970-

ISBN:

9780415979870

Personal Author:

Wilson, J. Zoë, 1970-

Publication Information:

London : Routledge, 2006.

Physical Description:

xi, 252 p. ; 24 cm.

Series:

Studies in international relations

Studies in international relations (Routledge (Firm))

Series Title:

Studies in international relations

General Note:

Formerly CIP.

Contents:

Power, politics and doomed projects -- Policies and institutions -- Human development reports -- The millennium road map -- From global ideas to regional road maps -- Country level -- Wishful thinking, willful blindness, and artful amnesia in Angola, Botswana, Namibia and Tanzania -- Paradoxes and dilemmas of institutional change -- Disorganized deception and the performance of irony.

Corporate Subject:

United Nations.

Subject Term:

Peace-building -- Africa.

Democracy -- Africa.

Electronic Access:

Table of contents only http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0610/2006009431.html
Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0654/2006009431-d.html

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Summary

This book explores UN bureaucracy and the development dysfunction it sows in four 'most different' African countries: Angola, Botswana, Namibia, and Tanzania. Wilson's original purpose for researching this book was to uncover new solutions to some of the United Nations' most vexing implementation problems. Yet, as research unfolded, it became clear that the reasons for those problems lay tangled up in bureaucratic and philosophical quagmires of a much more fundamental nature. The United Nations and Democracy in Africa is the documentation not only of these bureaucratic and philosophical absurdities that find expression through development practice, but also the journey of the author from ardent defender of the UN to profound sceptic.