World Bank and Africa

Graham Harrison lectures politics at the University of Sheffield, UK. He is an editor of New Political Economy and Review of African Political Economy, and is currently working on the concept of empire in international relations, and administrative reform in Tanzania.

• Section I. the Governance Encounter: The World Bank, Governance States and a New Sovereign FrontierChapter 1: The Road to Governance: The World Bank and AfricaChapter 2: Governance States in Africa: Conceptualising the Encounter between the World Bank and the Sovereign FrontierChapter 3. Conceptualising the World Bank: Governance and Global RégimesSection II. Constructing Governance States: Institutions, Discourse, SecurityChapter 4: Introducing Post ConditionalityChapter 5: The Mechanics of Post ConditionalityChapter 6: Liberalism and the Discourse of Reform in Governance StatesChapter 7: Securing Governance StatesChapter 8: Neoliberalism's Revenge

'Graham Harrison's The World Bank and Africa is an important contribution to this debate that situates recent interventions in the by the World Bank in Sub-Saharan Africa within a more diverse context of regional government structures.'- Adam David Morton, Modern African Studies'Graham Harrison's analysis of governance states in Africa - linked to the shaping of a new terrain of intervention by the World Bank - is a winner.'- Adam David Morton, Modern African Studies'The World Bank and Africa should be required reading across the study of political economy, development, post-colonial African studies, and historical sociology.'- Adam David Morton, Modern African Studies