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Title: | Into the Twilight Zone: A Comparative Analysis of Legal Aspects of Political and Economic Reforms in Eastern Europe and Africa |
Author: | Kiplagat, Peter K. |
Year: | 1992 |
Periodical: | African Journal of International and Comparative Law |
Volume: | 4 |
Pages: | 927-960 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Africa Eastern Europe |
Subjects: | politics economic policy privatization Law, Human Rights and Violence Politics and Government Economics and Trade |
External link: | https://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?handle=hein.journals/afjincol4&id=939&collection=journals&index=journals/afjincol |
Abstract: | By the end of the 1980s Eastern Europe and Africa were similar in their political and economic orientations. Both generally had autocratic political systems. State control over the means of production was similar and observance of human rights was at its lowest ebb. When changes began to take place in Eastern Europe, Africa was swept along. This paper gives a historical account of the experiences of the two entities and compares the reforms that have taken place in Eastern Europe and Africa after the Cold War. Attention is paid to structural adjustment and privatization in Africa, notably in Ghana and Kenya, as well as to political reform. The reaction of the West to the democratic process in Eastern Europe is also analysed. The author shows that the end of the Cold War has brought greater Western interest in Eastern Europe, but that it has relegated Africa to the periphery of Western political and economic considerations. Africa may, therefore, remain an aid recipient for the foreseeable future. Notes, ref. |