1st Edition

The World Bank and Africa The Construction of Governance States

By Graham Harrison Copyright 2004
176 Pages
by Routledge

176 Pages
by Routledge

176 Pages
by Routledge

Shortlisted for the Inaugural International Political Economy Group annual book prize, 2006. An incisive exploration of the interventions of the World Bank in severely indebted African states. Understanding sovereignty as a frontier rather than a boundary, this key study develops a vision of a powerful international organization reconciling a global political economy with its own designs and... Read more
Section I. the Governance Encounter: The World Bank, Governance States and a New Sovereign Frontier
Chapter 1: The Road to Governance: The World Bank and Africa
Chapter 2: Governance States in Africa: Conceptualising the Encounter between the World Bank and the Sovereign Frontier
Chapter 3. Conceptualising the World Bank: Governance and Global Régimes
Section II. Constructing Governance States: Institutions, Discourse, Security
Chapter 4: Introducing Post Conditionality
Chapter 5: The Mechanics of Post Conditionality
Chapter 6: Liberalism and the Discourse of Reform in Governance States
Chapter 7: Securing Governance States
Chapter 8: Neoliberalism's Revenge

Biography

Graham Harrison lectures politics at the University of Sheffield, UK. He is an editor of New Political Economy and Review of African Political Economy, and is currently working on the concept of empire in international relations, and administrative reform in Tanzania.

'Graham Harrison's The World Bank and Africa is an important contribution to this debate that situates recent interventions in the by the World Bank in Sub-Saharan Africa within a more diverse context of regional government structures.'- Adam David Morton, Modern African Studies

'Graham Harrison's analysis of governance states in Africa - linked to the shaping of a new terrain of intervention by the World Bank - is a winner.'- Adam David Morton, Modern African Studies

'The World Bank and Africa should be required reading across the study of political economy, development, post-colonial African studies, and historical sociology.'- Adam David Morton, Modern African Studies