Books by Donald Rothchild

This volume juxtaposes the competing claims of the formal political system and of ethnic groups in African societies and focuses on the state and its implications for ethnicity; the claims of ethnic groups; the policies to manage competing claims; and the dialectic of autonomy and control.

Ethnic conflict in Africa is reaching critical levels. Governments are being toppled. National economies are collapsing. And the potential for civil unrest--even violent encounters--throughout the continent threatens to engulf not only Africa, but much of the world.

The new edition of this popular and widely-used text includes entirely new chapters on political economy and South Africa and has been thoroughly revised throughout to reflect the major changes in Africa and in the wider world since the end of the Cold War.