Free market policies have been in operation across Africa for the past 25 years, yet they have failed to reverse deepening poverty. This book explores, with case studies, why such policies continue to be implemented and the ways in which they have been reinvented by socialization, depoliticization, regionalization and securitization.

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Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

Pádraig Carmody

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PÁDRAIG CARMODY is Lecturer in Geography, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. He has consulted for the South African government and was formerly Assistant Professor at the University of Vermont, USA.

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Book Title: Neoliberalism, Civil Society and Security in Africa
Authors: Pádraig Carmody
Series Title: International Political Economy Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230598386
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Political & Intern. Studies Collection, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-52159-9Published: 17 October 2007
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-35645-4Published: 17 October 2007
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-59838-6Published: 17 October 2007
Series ISSN: 2662-2483
Series E-ISSN: 2662-2491
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 347
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: International Relations, Development Studies, International Political Economy, African Politics, Sociology, general, Political Theory

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