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"We can't give you your ecclesiastical court back again; but you shall have more steamers, a railway, a telegraph-cable—a future in the great world which is worth infinitely more than any amount of ecclesiastical past.
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“Killing, and being prepared to send one's own followers to their deaths is an index of seriousness in bargaining.”
― The Real Politics of the Horn of Africa: Money, War and the Business of Power
― The Real Politics of the Horn of Africa: Money, War and the Business of Power
“Most members of the political elites of north-east Africa have come to resemble gangsters rather than civic political leaders.”
― The Real Politics of the Horn of Africa: Money, War and the Business of Power
― The Real Politics of the Horn of Africa: Money, War and the Business of Power
“Indeed, post-colonial theory first emerged in the wake of the failure of the Third World nations to go it alone. It marked the end of the era of Third World revolutions and the first glimmerings of what we now know as globalization.”
― After Theory
― After Theory
“...revolutionary nationalism was by far the most successful radical tide of the the twentieth century.”
― After Theory
― After Theory
“Political bargaining and political entrepreneurship can be seen naked, stripped of the flattering wardrobe of democracy, rule of law and state building.”
― The Real Politics of the Horn of Africa: Money, War and the Business of Power
― The Real Politics of the Horn of Africa: Money, War and the Business of Power
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