Tony Hodges, Angola: Anatomy of an Oil State.(Book Review)

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TONY HODGES, Angola: anatomy of an oil state. Oxford: James Currey (pb 12.95 [pounds sterling]--0 85255 874 0). 2004, 236 pp.

Angola's three decades of war have served as a laboratory for scholars seeking an explanation for the persistence of such prolonged conflicts. In this updated edition of his 2001 case-study of Angola, which takes into account the end of the country's war and the death of UNITA leader Jonas Savimbi in February 2002, Tony Hodges advances resource theory to examine Angola's principle dichotomy: the 'terrible, shocking paradox' of immense wealth in oil and ...

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