Some Thoughts on Rebuilding African State Capability

Authors

A. Peter Mutharika, Washington University School of Law

Publication Title

Washington University Law Quarterly

Abstract

Communism has collapsed, the United States is now the only superpower, and modem information technology has created a global neighborhood. As American capital and technology seek foreign markets, the viability of the world's second largest continent should be of at least some interest to the American lawyer. I want to talk about what the World Bank in its 1997 World Development Report has called a "Crisis of Statehood-A Crisis of Capability" in Sub-Saharan Africa in particular and in Africa in general and how the African States in cooperation with the international community might respond to it.

Recommended Citation

A. Peter Mutharika, Some Thoughts on Rebuilding African State Capability, 76 Wash. U. L. Q. 281 (1998).
Available at: https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/law_lawreview/vol76/iss1/19