I was pointed to Paul Collier’s latest Guardian column on the violent political standoff in Ivory Coast by the always entertaining Wronging Rights blog. In the piece, Collier advocates for a military coup openly supported by regional and international powers. Indeed, he supports the option to: …generate a credible threat of force from the government’s [...]
Posts Tagged ‘economy’
Collier and Côte d’Ivoire
Posted in Politics, tagged Côte d'Ivoire, Collier, economy, governance, law, realism, sovereignty on 13 January 2011 | Leave a Comment »
More thoughts on Collier
Posted in Policy, tagged Africa, Collier, economy, governance, human rights on 10 March 2010 | Leave a Comment »
My previous post contained little more than an overview of Paul Collier’s recent talk at the U.S. Africa Command, but I wanted to return to a few of the implications it seemed to contain. Whereas Collier emphasized the centrality of managing specific economic processes to the future stability/prosperity of African societies, I wonder about the [...]
Paul Collier at AFRICOM
Posted in Policy, tagged Africa, AFRICOM, Collier, economy, governance, security on 4 March 2010 | 2 Comments »
This afternoon, I had the opportunity to swing across town to the not uncontroversial U.S. Africa Command for a lecture given by Paul Collier, author of The Bottom Billion and someone who understands substantially more about African governance and economic arrangements than most of us ever will. I don’t mean to be hyperbolic, but considering [...]