Introduction : posing the problem of state collapse / I.W. Zartman
Reconstructing the state of Chad / W.J. Foltz
State collapse and reconstruction in Uganda / G.M. Khadiagala
Rawlings and the engineering of legitimacy in Ghana / D. Rothchild
Somalia : a terrible beauty being born? / H.M. Adam
Liberia : putting the state back together / M. Lowenkopf
The heritage of revolution and the struggle for governmental legitimacy in Mozambique / B. Schutz
Remaking the Ethiopian state / E. Keller
The collapse of the socialist state : Angola and the Soviet Union / L.L. Fituni
Zaire : collapsed society, surviving state, future polity / H. Weiss
Algeria : reinstating the state or instating a civil society? / A. Layachi
South Africa : state transition and the management of collapse / S. Shezi
State collapse : the humanitarian challenge to the United Nations / F.M. Deng
The role of foreign intervention in African reconstruction / I. A. Gambari
Democratization in collapsed states / M. Ottaway
Strongmen, state formation, collapse, and reconstruction in Africa / N. Ng'ethe
Putting things back together / I.W. Zartman.
