Liberia: Roots and Fruits of the Emergency
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Year:
1999
Organization / Publisher / Reference:
Third World Quarterly - Journal of Emerging Areas. 20. 1 (1999): 163-173.
Areas:
Governance
Sub-topic:
Crisis
Publicly available?:
yes
Method:
Literature review and discussion of historical records
Sample size (n):
1 200
Main findings:
The paper distinguishes between the 1989-90 crisis of the state and the 1990-97 Complex Political Emergency (CPE). It argues that the 1989-90 crisis can be explained in terms of a final breakdown in the system of conflict management. This breakdown is explained partly by inherent weaknesses of the system and partly by historically specific stresses and contingencies. That the 1989-90 crisis led to a CPE is explained as an outcome of the intervention of regional powers. Warned in 1999 of the reoccurrence of a new crisis due to then similarities to the earlier landscape.
Further research recommendations:
Recommends that there be 'governance conditionality' in the aid programme of the United Nations
Survey:
no
Link:
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a713700844
DOI:
10.1080/01436599913974