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Title: | Angola: Can the Politics of Disorder Become the Politics of Democratisation and Development? |
Author: | Kibble, Steve |
Year: | 2006 |
Periodical: | Review of African Political Economy |
Volume: | 33 |
Issue: | 109 |
Period: | September |
Pages: | 525-542 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Angola |
Subjects: | political change development political systems State-society relationship Development and Technology Economics and Trade Politics and Government international relations |
External link: | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03056240601001026 |
Abstract: | Postwar Angola seems at first look to be in a triple transition from war to peace, devastation to reconstruction, and from a State/elite patronage system to democratization and transparency. However, this paper argues that, in fact, the 'politics of disorder' stemming from war suit the purposes of the Angolan elite whilst it simultaneously proclaims transition for outside cosmetic purposes. The Angolan elite, comprising 'a constellation of politician-rentiers, petroleum sector technocrats and military officials', can run the State in its own interests, largely ignoring any demands from the citizenry given that the accumulation basis and the orientation of the elite is to the outside. Chinese loans, high oil prices, further oilfield expansion and the warm alliance with the USA ensure that Angolan civil society - despite its efforts - is unable to adequately counter the elite's ability to control events. Promised elections - without a date having been announced - are unlikely to change this structural framework. Notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract] |