IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/pal/palchp/978-1-349-06499-1_4.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

Northern and Western Africa: Past Trends and Future Prospects

In: Africa Projected

Author

Listed:
  • I. William Zartman

Abstract

This chapter is an attempt to establish a likely baseline for understanding events in North and West Africa — the twenty-three or twenty-four mainland countries west of and including Libya, Chad, CAR and Congo (that is, those not treated in the preceding chapter) through the 1980s. It contains two types of forecasts — a projection of those situations or elements which are likely to remain the same into the coming decade, and an identification of other elements which are likely to change and head off in other directions. Continuation and mutation are the ingredients of this baseline; and continuation can contain both ‘straightline projections’ and the ups and downs of identifiable cycles.1

Suggested Citation

  • I. William Zartman, 1985. "Northern and Western Africa: Past Trends and Future Prospects," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Timothy M. Shaw & Olajide Aluko (ed.), Africa Projected, chapter 4, pages 60-80, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-06499-1_4
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-06499-1_4
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-06499-1_4. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.palgrave.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.