Abstract
Autore:
Calchi Novati Giampaolo
Titolo:
"L´Africa fra crisi e transizione"
At the end of a long institutional and productive crisis, the African state has entered a phase of rapid transformation. The influence of external factors has combined with the evolution of a society too quickly assumed to be unitary and cohesive at the moment of independence. The aims of democratization and liberalization, both political and economic, ought, however, to be verified in the light of the function for which Africa is destined in the epoch of globalization. The case studies presented in the dossier demonstrate a fairly diverse phenomenology and show that the outlets already reached are not definitive. The state, moreover, was too burdened at the time of decolonization to feel the effect of the setbacks provoked both by the collapse of the authoritative regimes and by economic difficulties. States with fewer resources indeed risked " disappearing ". But all the states of the continent, in one way or another, suffered the negative effects, more than the benefits, of a full entrance into the markets.
