Making Sense of the Central African Republic
本书通过14个章节分析中非共和国自1996年以来的长期危机，涵盖历史、经济、区域事务及维和等主题，适合关注非洲政治与国际危机的读者。
This edited volume takes a broad look at the crisis in the Central African Republic (CAR), a “quasi-permanent” crisis since 1996 (p. 325) in a country which is largely off the radar of international politics. Given the magnitude of violence in the CAR and the depth of this “B-list” crisis (p. x), particularly in the years 2012 and 2013, this book is a much-needed contribution to our understanding of the CAR crisis. The fourteen chapters cover several themes including the CAR's history, the primarily elite-benefitting economy, regional affairs, peacekeeping and peacebuilding. It also includes two ethnographic studies, one about life in a district of the capital city and another about elite perceptions, both serving as a distraction from the other very coherent, albeit at times repetitive, parts of the book. The crisis is inter alia explained in relation to CAR's past as a French colony, the lack of a functioning state (also labelled “autonomous zones”, p. 144), the spill-over from other regional conflicts, and also interference from external states, most notably Chad and France.