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    The Social Question and State Formation in British Africa: Egypt, South Africa and Uganda in comparison
    (Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2017) ; ;
    The paper explores governmental perceptions and reactions to “social questions” in British colonial Africa, c. 1880-1950. By comparing three different political entities, Egypt, South Africa and Uganda, we find that authorities across cases have been acutely aware of potentially destabilising social change. Some social problems actually resulted from colonial projects themselves, giving rise to rather contradictory interpretations and policies. However, the intensity of political reactions to social questions varied widely, ranging from a largely passive approach in Egypt to the introduction of modern welfare in South Africa. We argue that perceptions and responses to social dislocation had a long-term impact on patterns of state formation and social policy development.
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    Die Verunsicherung der Welt. Aktuelle Gewaltkonflikte und globale Ordnung
    Political science has only marginally worked on the most recent dynamics of war development in the Middle East and on the African continent. This article suggests an interpretation, based on the “Hamburg approach” to the study of war, which focuses on conflictive modernization processes and institutional legitimacy deficits. Whilst form and incumbency of state domination are at the center of these violent conflicts, their most visible product of the laboratories of multilateral intervention is rather an internationalization of political domination than what liberal approaches label as “global governance”. In order to grasp these changes, political science has to re-think the sociology of the state and to rediscover political violence as a subject of research and theory.
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