Africa In A Changing Global Order

Author : Samuel Ojo Oloruntoba,Toyin Falola
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 1116 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030774813

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The Palgrave Handbook of Africa and the Changing Global Order by Samuel Ojo Oloruntoba,Toyin Falola Pdf

This handbook fills a large gap in the current knowledge about the critical role of Africa in the changing global order. By connecting the past, present, and future in a continuum that shows the paradox of existence for over one billion people, the book underlines the centrality of the African continent to global knowledge production, the global economy, global security, and global creativity. Bringing together perspectives from top Africa scholars, it actively dispels myths of the continent as just a passive recipient of external influences, presenting instead an image of an active global agent that astutely projects soft power. Unlike previous handbooks, this book offers an eclectic mix of historical, contemporary, and interdisciplinary approaches that allow for a more holistic view of the many aspects of Africa’s relations with the world.

Author : Malte Brosig
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030754099

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Africa in a Changing Global Order by Malte Brosig Pdf

This book focuses on marginal actors in the global order. Such a perspective is often missing as global order analysis is often biased towards exploring large powerful actors and equating their relations with global order. Such an approach is not only dated but also analytically incomplete. It is because of the increasingly decentred nature of global order, that marginal actors and their relations, tactics, strategies and approaches matter for global order as they matter for these actors. The book starts by providing an analytical framework exploring different policy options for African agency which are located along a nexus of choices ranging from accommodation, engagement to system transformation. The selection of a particular interaction type is argued to be dependent on external opportunity structures in the form of different global orders reaching from competitive polarity to dispersed forms of authority or even non-polarity. In addition to these external conditions, the ability to generate meaningful African agency facilitates a greater role in global order. Empirically, the book covers four policy fields which are peace and security, international criminal justice, economics and trade and COVID-19.

Author : John W Harbeson,Donald Rothchild
Publisher : Westview Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0813348455

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Africa in World Politics by John W Harbeson,Donald Rothchild Pdf

In this fully revised edition top scholars in African politics address the effects that major currents in Africa and world politics have upon each other and explore the ramifications of this interconnection for contemporary theories of international and comparative politics. The fifth edition focuses on engaging a changing world order. The nation-state as we know it is a legacy of European rule in Africa, and the primacy of the nation-state remains the bedrock of most contemporary theories of international relations. Yet in the fifth decade of Africa's independence, this colonial inheritance has been challenged as never before by state weakness, internal and inter-state conflict, new gains in economic development, large investments by China and other G-20 countries, and internal and external demands for economic and political reform, with potentially far-reaching implications. Including new readings on the Sudan, the Great Lakes crisis, and bilateral vs. multilateral peacekeeping on the continent, this text remains an invaluable resource for students of African and world politics.

Author : Madeleine O. Hosli,Joren Selleslaghs
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030216030

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The Changing Global Order by Madeleine O. Hosli,Joren Selleslaghs Pdf

This volume offers a comprehensive evaluation of the concept of global order, with a particular emphasis on the role of regional organisations within global governance institutions such as the United Nations. Building from a solid theoretical base it draws upon the expertise of numerous leading international scholars offering a broad array of timely and relevant case studies. These all take into consideration the historical setting, before analysing the contemporary situation and offering suggestions for potential realignments and readjustments that may be witnessed in the future. The volume adopts an interdisciplinary approach when addressing some of the most pressing issues of global governance which our global community must tackle. This presents the readers an opportunity to understand related topics such as political economy, international law, institutions of global governance, in conjunction with the academic field of International Relations (IR). It further helps students and interested readers understand the theoretical and practical foundations to the changing nature of global affairs.

Author : Olayiwola Abegunrin,Charity Manyeruke
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030219949

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China's Power in Africa by Olayiwola Abegunrin,Charity Manyeruke Pdf

This book examines China’s political, economic, and diplomatic engagement in Africa. The rapid increase of China’s economic and political involvement in Africa is the most momentous development on the continent of Africa since the beginning of the twenty-first century. China is now Africa’s largest trading partner and the largest infrastructure financier. Additionally, it is the fastest growing economy and source of foreign direct investment. This monograph seeks to understand the dynamics of the escalating Chinese investments in African economies and the political implications of this development for Africa. This work will interest scholars, students, academics, and policy makers on the fields of Chinese and African politics, development studies, and international political economy.

Author : Phiwokuhle Mnyandu
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781793644510

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South Africa–China Relations by Phiwokuhle Mnyandu Pdf

In South Africa-China Relations: Between Aspiration and Reality in a New Global Order, Phiwokuhle Mnyandu analyzes South Africa-China relations in the context of South Africa’s quest to reduce unemployment and transform its economy to ensure lasting social stability. Mnyandu uses trade patterns, analyses of governmental organizations and initiatives, and other socio-economic data to determine the extent to which developmental change or stasis has taken place as relations between South Africa and China have deepened. Tracing South Africa’s changing attitudes and policies towards China’s involvement, the impact of programs involving commodities trades on unemployment, and the prospective outcomes of an endogenous developmental policy, Mnyandu concludes by proposing a quadri-linear model as a tool for more comprehensive analyses of China’s relations not only with South Africa, but other African countries as well to avoid disinformation on Africa-China issues.

Author : John W Harbeson,Donald Ro
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429975103

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Africa in World Politics by John W Harbeson,Donald Ro Pdf

The sixth edition of Africa in World Politics focuses on challenges African states face in constructing viable political economies in contexts both of familiar domestic challenges and an unprecedented mix of engagements, opportunities, and threats emanating from a turbulent and rapidly changing international order. This text, including new chapters on Nigeria and the influence of party politics on economic development, remains an invaluable resource for students of African politics seeking to navigate the continent's complex political and economic landscapes. Revised chapters consider both the extent and the limits of continued healthy growth rates in many countries; the impacts of investments by China and other BRICS countries; plateaus and some reversals in progress on human rights and democratization; dimensions of chronic state weakness deepened by insurgencies, including some that are connected to Al Qaeda and the Islamic State; and peacebuilding efforts struggling to uphold responsible sovereignty in the Sudans, the Great Lakes region, and elsewhere.

Author : William Brown,Sophie Harman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134057542

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African Agency in International Politics by William Brown,Sophie Harman Pdf

This book analyses the rapidly increasing role of African states, leaders and other political actors in international politics in the 21st Century. In contrast to the conventional approach of studying how external actors impacted on Africa’s international relations, this book seeks to open up a new approach, focusing on the impact of African political actors on international politics. It does this by analysing African agency – the degree to which African political actors have room to manoeuvre within the international system and exert influence internationally, and the uses they make of that room for manoeuvre. Bringing together leading scholars from Africa and Europe to explore the role and conception of African Agency, this book addresses a wide range of issues, from relations with western and non-western donors, Africa’s role in the UN and World Trade Organisation, negotiations over climate change, trade agreements with the European Union, regional diplomatic strategies, the character and extent of African state agency, and agency within corporate social responsibility initiatives. African Agency in International Politics will be of interest to scholars and students of Africa’s international relations, African politics, development, geography, diplomacy, trade, the environment, political science and security studies.

Author : Francis Kornegay
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780639995571

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Africa and the World by Francis Kornegay Pdf

Africa and the World: Navigating Shifting Geopolitics is one of the first books to analyse the global geopolitical landscape from an African perspective, with a view to the opportunities and challenges facing the African continent. Authors in this edited volume argue for the need to re-imagine Africas role in the world. As a cradle of humanity, a historical fountain of profound scientific knowledge, an object of colonial conquest and, today, a collective of countries seeking to pool their sovereignties in order to improve the human condition, Africa has a unique opportunity to advance its own interests. Authors re?ect on all these issues; they outline how developments in the global political economy impact on the continent and, inversely, how Africa can develop a strategic perspective that takes into account the dynamics playing out in a fraught global terrain.

Author : Amitav Acharya
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107170711

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Constructing Global Order by Amitav Acharya Pdf

Examines how ideas of sovereignty and security from the non-Western world contribute to order and change in world politics.

Author : István Tarrósy,Loránd Szabó,Göran Hydén
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9783643110602

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The African State in a Changing Global Context by István Tarrósy,Loránd Szabó,Göran Hydén Pdf

During the first 25 years of independence, the African state was largely driven from within by the ambition to establish political order in a world where national sovereignty over issues of development was not in question. The theme of this book is that more is at stake today than in the past.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Africa, East
ISBN : UOM:39015076181869

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A Changing Global Order by Anonim Pdf

Author : S. Cornelissen,F. Cheru,T. Shaw
Publisher : Springer
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230355743

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Africa and International Relations in the 21st Century by S. Cornelissen,F. Cheru,T. Shaw Pdf

This book examines key emergent trends related to aspects of power, sovereignty, conflict, peace, development, and changing social dynamics in the African context. It challenges conventional IR precepts of authority, politics and society, which have proven to be so inadequate in explaining African processes. Rather, this edited collection analyses the significance of many of the uncharted dimensions of Africa's international relations, such as the respatialisation of African societies through migration, and the impacts this process has had on state power; the various ways in which both formal and informal authority and economies are practised; and the dynamics and impacts of new transnational social movements on African politics. Finally, attention is paid to Africa's place in a shifting global order, and the implications for African international relations of the emergence of new world powers and/or alliances. This edition includes a new preface by the editors, which brings the findings of the book up-to-date, and analyses the changes that are likely to impact upon global governance and human development in policy and practice in Africa and the wider world post-2015.

Author : James Ferguson
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2006-02-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0822337177

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Global Shadows by James Ferguson Pdf

DIVA collection of Ferguson's essays that bring the question of Africa into the center of current debates on globalization, modernity, and emerging forms of world order./div

Author : Francis Onditi,Gilad Ben-Nun,Cristina D'Alessandro,Zack Levey
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781498598118

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Contemporary Africa and the Foreseeable World Order by Francis Onditi,Gilad Ben-Nun,Cristina D'Alessandro,Zack Levey Pdf

Contemporary Africa and the Foreseeable World Order brings together rich and diverse contributions from seasoned scholars from around the globe. Anchored in a wide array of disciplinary perspectives, the contributors explore the interesting and complex dynamics at play in Africa’s interactions with the rest of the world.