POLEMOLOGY OF CENTRAL AFRICA (1990-2020)

Authors

  • HENRIQUE MORAIS

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26619/1647-7251.14.1.11

Keywords:

Central Africa, Conflict, Resources, Religion

Abstract

In this article, we propose a holistic approach to conflict, delimiting the geographic space to a sub-region1
, Central Africa, while keeping active the communicating vessels that derive from ethnic mobility and the fluctuation of territorial borders. The ethnic issue, geopolitics, and the resources curse seem to us to be more appropriate explanatory factors of conflict than the religious issue, linked to Islam, or the idea of "failed states”. The processes of externalization and factionalism, the diffuse and dispersed dynamics of alliances, their fluidity according to various alignments, extraversion and policefalia are only visible characteristics of State`s disorder and chaos that has not disappeared, but simply feeds, through a hybrid phenomenon (the post-colonial State), from fragmented social structures for an economy of predatory accumulation

Author Biography

HENRIQUE MORAIS

Degree in Economics from Universidade Técnica de Lisboa / Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão. Master's degree in International Economics from ISEG. PhD in International Relations: Geopolitics and Geoeconomics from Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa. He works at Banco de Portugal (Portugal) where is Head of Innovation and Support Division of Markets Department. He was a Consultant for the Portuguese Post Office (CTT), Chairman of the Executive Committee and Director of Invesfer S.A., a company of the REFER Group, and Director / CEO of CP Carga. He teaches at Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa (in the Departments of Economics and Business Sciences and International Relations) and on the MBA in Corporate Finance at Universidade do Algarve. He is also a member of the Foreign Relations Observatory of UAL, where he has been involved in various research projects, as well as assiduous participation in the various editions of Janus - International Relations Yearbook.

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Published

2023-05-30

Issue

Vol. 14 No. 1 (2023)

Section

ARTICLES