Mozambique and the Construction of the New African State: From Negotiations to Nation Building

Book Description
Mozambique and the Construction of the New African State analyzes the international inspired to rebuild this war-torn country. It seeks to understand the role of the international community in constructing a new kind of African state in the aftermath of conflict and socialism. At the heart of the book is the question of sustainability of the post-conflict African state against the backdrop of the multiple legacies of war, socialism, and regional and international intervention upon an enervated Mozambican society.


About the Author
Chris Alden is Lecturer in International Relations, London School of Economics.



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Mozambique and the Construction of the New African State is an original study of the internationally inspired effort to rebuild this war-torn African country. The imposition of the international community's vision of a market economy twinned with electoral democracy on Mozambique's deeply divided society has been both lauded as a success and castigated as a failure. The book examines Mozambique's negotiated peace process, the tentative steps towards pluralism, its unprecedented economic growth and rising criminality in society in relation to this new international regime for Africa. At the heart of the book is the question of the sustainability of the post-conflict African state given the multiple legacies of war, socialism and foreign intervention. With external intervention a feature of post-conflict states across the continent, this study holds wider implications for analysts of a host of countries emerging from ruinous wars and shattered economies.


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