TY - BOOK AU - De Waal, Alex. TI - The real politics of the Horn of Africa: money, war and the busi ness of power SN - 9780745695587 (pbk.) U1 - 306.20963 23 PY - 2015/// CY - Cambridge, UK, Malden, MA PB - Polity KW - Political culture KW - Horn of Africa KW - Political violence KW - Political corruption KW - Politics and government N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-250) and index; Introduction: observing the business of power --; The political ma rketplace: politics is business and business is politics --; The Horn of Africa: subcontinental war in three acts --; Darfur: the auction of loyalties --; Sudan: managing the unmanageable --; South Sudan: the boom and bust of a speculative bubble --; Somalia: a post-apocaly pse workshop --; Somaliland: a business-social contract --; Eritrea : a museum of modernism --; Ethiopia: is state-building still possibl e? --; Transnational patronage: shadow globalization and the regional marketplace --; The politics of ideas: perplexed intellectuals and p olicymakers ER -