World Monarchies and Dynasties

Middleton, John

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“…However, three countries in Africa namely, the Kingdoms of Morocco, Eswatini, and Lesotho retain their monarchical status in their governance structures. While two of them, Morocco and Lesotho are constitutional monarchies, in which laws and customs bind the sovereign King in the exercise of their powers, Eswatini is an absolute monarchy in which the sovereign King rules without bounds or constitutional restrictions (Middleton 2015). In addition, there are also sub-national monarchies that are not sovereign, as they only exist within larger political associations that include the Cuito of Angola, Ahouannonzoun of Benin, Boussouma of Burkina Faso, Loango of Congo and Gonja of Ghana (Soszynski 2011).…”

Section: Democracy and Governance In Africa: Pre-colonial Colonial An...mentioning

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Africa’s Fledgling Democratization Process Once More at the Crossroads: Continental Security and International Relations Implications

2023

IAGS

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Africa has had a chequered constitutional history, and current happenings have further dented the continent's democratic credentials as the military are forcefully terminating fledgling democracies. The consequences have been anything but damming, regarding the socio-politico-economic development of such countries and adjoining neighboring countries. Moreover, under the circumstances, continental security is once more under threat with dire international relations implications for countries that involve in constitutional interruptions. This work investigates the factors that account for the current upsurge of Coup D'états in some African countries and their impact on continental security. The study adopts a sequential exploratory mixed method approach involving 30 participants (qualitative) in Ghana and 433 respondents (quantitative) across the continent of Africa administered through goggle. The findings on the main showed that, bad governance among a mirage of factors such as economic challenges, have often precipitated violent coups in Africa. The paper argues that coups can be averted when constitutional leaders practice good governance and adhere to human rights, inter alia.

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Section: Democracy and Governance In Africa: Pre-colonial Colonial An...mentioning

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Africa’s Fledgling Democratization Process Once More at the Crossroads: Continental Security and International Relations Implications

2023

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“…At all levels of society, the use of charms was and is still an essential component of leadership. Even though colonialism destroyed the indigenous political systems (Barret, 2013;Middleton, 2015) and Christianity is now well spread, the use of manga still exists. Luba kings, political leaders, and their aides, chiefs and ritual specialists used manga that were personified in wood sculptures as receptacles of the spirits.…”

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Efficacy of indigenous charms as weapons of war

Bakamana¹,

Magesa²,

Majawa³

2021

IJRBS

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Conflicts and wars in the contemporary world are often fought through the use of modern and sophisticated weapons. The forces using such modern weapons are often regarded as having an upper hand especially when their opponents possess what is regarded as inferior weaponry. However, modern weapons can be overpowered as evidenced in the Kamwina Nsapu conflict in the Kasai region of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The insurgency of Kamwina Nsapu militia in the Kasai Central Province sought to bring accountability to the modern political leadership and address bad governance practices. The case of the Kamwina Nsapu revealed the use of charms or fetishes (manga) to address the problem that had emerged in the Luba community. Different types of indigenous charms (manga) were used: trees and sticks were used as guns; slippers as telephones; and fruits as grenades. Militia were able to cut off heads of enemies from a distance with their bare hands and they teleported from one place to another at will. These activities were made possible by the use of charms (manga), such as the tshiota fire and nkwembe.

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“…The Hôtel-Dieu de Paris survived the French Revolution with the Jacobins then being highly critical of a hospital that had close ties to the church (Risse, 1999: 305). And the Imperial House of Japan survived the end of World War II, with its emperor remaining on the throne because the United States government assumed that through this measure, occupation could be facilitated by better co-opting national elites (Middleton, 2015: 401). In all cases, regardless of the degree of disaster or shock, the organizations that we studied were considered system-relevant and hence supported by other actors.…”

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Deep-time organizations: Learning institutional longevity from history

Hanusch

Biermann

2019

The Anthropocene Review

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The Anthropocene as a new planetary epoch has brought to the foreground the deep-time interconnections of human agency with the earth system. Yet despite this recognition of strong temporal interdependencies, we still lack understanding of how societal and political organizations can manage interconnections that span several centuries and dozens of generations. This study pioneers the analysis of what we call “deep-time organizations.” We provide detailed comparative historical analyses of some of the oldest existing organizations worldwide from a variety of sectors, from the world’s oldest bank (Sveriges Riksbank) to the world’s oldest university (University of Al Quaraouiyine) and the world’s oldest dynasty (Imperial House of Japan). Based on our analysis, we formulate 12 initial design principles that could lay, if supported by further empirical research along similar lines, the basis for the construction and design of “deep-time organizations” for long-term challenges of earth system governance and planetary stewardship.

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World Monarchies and Dynasties

Cited by 11 publications

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Africa’s Fledgling Democratization Process Once More at the Crossroads: Continental Security and International Relations Implications

Africa’s Fledgling Democratization Process Once More at the Crossroads: Continental Security and International Relations Implications

Efficacy of indigenous charms as weapons of war

Deep-time organizations: Learning institutional longevity from history

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