"Mozambique and the Construction of the New African State is an original study of the internationally inspired effort to rebuild this war-torn African country. The imposition of the international community's vision of a market economy twinned with electoral democracy on Mozambique's deeply divided society has been both lauded as a success and castigated as a failure.

The book examines Mozambique's negotiated peace process, the tentative steps towards pluralism, its unprecedented economic growth and rising criminality in society in relation to this new international regime for Africa. At the heart of the book is the question of the sustainability of the post-conflict African state given the multiple legacies of war, socialism and foreign intervention.

With external intervention a feature of post-conflict states across the continent, this study holds wider implications for analysts of a host of countries emerging from ruinous wars and shattered economies."--BOOK JACKET.