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" The United Nations and democracy in Africa : "
Zoë Wilson.
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BL
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1031209
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b785579
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| Main Entry
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Wilson, Zoë.
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The United Nations and democracy in Africa : : labyrinths of legitimacy /\ Zoë Wilson.
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New York :: Routledge,, ©2006.
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Studies in international relations
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xi, 252 pages ;; 24 cm.
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0415979870
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: 9780415979870
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-247) and index.
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| Contents
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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.
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In The United Nations and Democracy in Africa, Wilson tells the story of the UN bureaucracy and the development dysfunction it sews in four 'most different' African countries (Angola, Botswana, Namibia, Tanzania). Wilson's original purpose for researching for this book was to uncover new solutions to some of the UN's 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 book 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 skeptic.
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United Nations.
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United Nations.
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UNO.
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Vereinte Nationen.
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Democracy-- Africa.
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Peace-building-- Africa.
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Democracy.
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Demokrati-- Afrika.
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Demokratie.
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Fredsarbete-- Afrika.
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Friedensbestrebung.
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Friedenssichernde Maßnahme
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Peace-building.
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Africa.
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Afrika
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Afrika.
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341.23/6
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JZ4984.5.W55 2006
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MK 7750rvk
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