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Title: | Africa's New Territorial Politics: Regionalism and the Open Economy in Cote d'Ivoire |
Author: | Boone, Catherine |
Year: | 2007 |
Periodical: | African Studies Review |
Volume: | 50 |
Issue: | 1 |
Period: | April |
Pages: | 59-81 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Ivory Coast - Côte d'Ivoire |
Subjects: | political change economic policy regionalism Economics and Trade Politics and Government Ethnic and Race Relations Development and Technology |
External link: | http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/african_studies_review/v050/50.1boone.pdf |
Abstract: | This paper considers implications of the political and economic liberalizations of the late 1980s and 1990s for forms of national integration that were achieved during the era of State-led development in Africa. These national integration strategies (1960s-1980s) helped define and manage regional competition within the juridical boundaries of the territorial State. In today's 'open economy' settings, old strategies of national integration are difficult to sustain. What has emerged is a new territorial politics, which revolves around attempts to consolidate power within subunits of the State and reorder relations among them, to enforce political control within communities, and to reorder rural property rights. Côte d'Ivoire provides a case in point. When regime cohesion and national integration appeared advanced in Côte d'Ivoire, few anglophone political scientists noticed the role of Statist economic policies in producing these effects. Economic liberalization from the late 1980s onwards eroded these centralized political controls over key resources and resource flows. Weakening of the centre in Côte d'Ivoire gave rise to a new territorial politics driven by interregional competition, land conflict, and intraregional struggles over markets and political power. These strains set the stage for the outbreak of civil war in 2002. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract, edited] |