Niger gets back on track

Journal of Democracy

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 80-87

  Davis, John Uniack ^a   Kossomi, Aboubacar B ^a  

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EID: 0035647027     PISSN: 10455736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/jod.2001.0043     Document Type: Review

References (9)

1. rd out of 174 countries on the UNDP's Human Development Index, trailed only by Sierra Leone.
2. In the most recent of these conflicts, peace accords were signed with the Tuaregs in 1995 and the Toubous in 1998.
3. nd ed. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990), ch. 6.
4. nd ed. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990), ch. 6.
5. Larry Diamond, Developing Democracy: Toward Consolidation (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999), 64.
6. Larry Diamond, Developing Democracy, 65.
7. Interestingly, some local observers, pointing out that Niger is a secular state, expressed alarm that Tandja took his oath of office on the Koran.
8. John Uniack Davis, "A Single Finger Cannot Lift a Stone": Local Organizations and Democracy in Mali, Ph.D. diss., Department of Political Science, Michigan State University, 1999, 30.
9. Of course, some would question the humanity of cutting off aid to the world's poorest countries. In deeply impoverished countries ruled by military regimes, assistance could be channeled through NGOs and other civil society actors.