The War On Terror And The Crisis Of Postcoloniality In Africa Abstract

Reminiscent of the famous essays of Francis Fukuyama, 'The End of History', and Charles Krauthammer, 'The Uni- polar Moment', that both celebrated the end of the Cold War, Young's article presumes that the onset of the crisis of patrimonial decline in the 1980s and the backlash of developmentalism in the 1990s, culminating in the emergency of failed and turbulent states, have conspired to erode th. [...] The second is the relations between the postcolonial elites and the subject classes - relations that involve a nexus of coercion, cooptation, manipulation and cooperation, depending on the rhythm of balance of power between the local elite and the disparate subject groups and political constituencies. [...] Politics of Hegemony and Subjection US hegemony in the international system and the subjugation and chap- eroning of Africa and the Third World is clearly an old game that pre- ceded 9/11 and even the demise of the Cold War. [...] The 'invisible hand' of the US administration in the prescription and implementation of the IMF/World Bank neo-liberal therapies in the South from the early 1980s onwards is best captured by what is known in IPE as 'the Washington Consensus' - referring to the alliance of the two Bretton Woods institutions and the White House in the programmed manipulation, control and exploita- tion of the econom. [...] At the behest of the US administration, the AU has established in Algiers an African Centre for the Study and Research on Terrorism (ACSRT) to bolster the capacity of the Union in the prevention and combating of terrorism in Africa through research, documentation, in- formation dissemination, training, and seminars.