Africa In A Multilateral World

Author : Dawn Nagar,Charles Mutasa
Publisher : Springer
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319625904

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Africa and the World by Dawn Nagar,Charles Mutasa Pdf

This book probes key issues pertaining to Africa’s relations with global actors. It provides a comprehensive trajectory of Africa’s relations with key bilateral and major multilateral actors, assessing how the Cold War affected the African state systems’ political policies, its economies, and its security. Taken together, the essays in this volume provide a collective understanding of Africa’s drive to improve the capacity of its state of global affairs, and assess whether it is in fact able to do so.

Author : Albert Kasanda,Marek Hrubec
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000415964

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Africa in a Multilateral World by Albert Kasanda,Marek Hrubec Pdf

The book analyses how Africans and Africa relate to other parts of the multilateral world, and to the world in general, and how these relations stem from local, national and regional interactions in different parts of Africa, as well as Africa as a whole. The first part focuses on the assumptions that are necessary to understand the role of Africa on the global stage, especially from the perspectives of political philosophy and global and international studies. The second part of the book looks at both Afropolitan trends and the limits of Afropolitanism. In the third part the authors focus on specific African global tendencies stemming from the local conditions in several case studies. Traditional and modern politics is connected, problematically, with the current Jihadist organisations in the local African conditions related to unilateralism and global war on terror, for example. The fourth part deals with the relevance of the language ambivalence in relation to global interactions. It examines various views of African philosophy and lays bare the perception of earlier colonial languages in view of their current strength of global action. This book will be of interest to scholars of African studies, political philosophy, politics and global studies.

Author : Philip Nel,Ian Taylor,Janis Van der Westhuizen
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015050490526

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South Africa's Multilateral Diplomacy and Global Change by Philip Nel,Ian Taylor,Janis Van der Westhuizen Pdf

Post-apartheid South Africa's foreign policy has accepted a range of leadership responsibilities within multilateral institutions. This text assesses how, in these various leadership capacities, South Africa has been able to punch above its weight diplomatically. Pretoria's intervention or support for a particular position has sometimes been crucial in breaking a deadlock or securing the co-operation of others. South Africa has also used its profile to act as a voice for the vunerable, smaller states in world affairs. Based on their assessment of globalization as a process that holds some benefits, but also many dangers, for developing countries, both the Mandela and Mbeki persidencies have used multilateral forums to push for a greater say by developing countries in global governance. This position seems to indicate a reformist tendency in South African foreign policy. This book examines whether Pretoria's multilateral diplomacy contributes to global transformation, or whether South Africa's policies help maintain a fundamentally flawed global order.

Author : Sabella Ogbobode Abidde
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781498562973

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Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean by Sabella Ogbobode Abidde Pdf

As important as state-to-state and multi-state cooperation have long proven to be, many countries in the Global South have yet to fully explore its potentials. Despite their shared history of slavery, colonialism, and underdevelopment, Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean currently show a lack of significant cooperation. Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean: The Case for Bilateral and Multilateral Cooperation, therefore, makes the case for an increased and renewed effort at bilateral and multilateral cooperation between the three regions. In this multidisciplinary work, scholars make the case for renewing, continuing, and deepening relationships between the people, the state, and the non-governmental organizations in the three spheres—taking not only an economic and political point of view, but also considering sociological, geographical, and historical perspectives as well.

Author : Zhen Kun Wang,L. Alan Winters
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Africa, Sub-Saharan
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Africa's Role in Multilateral Trade Negotiations by Zhen Kun Wang,L. Alan Winters Pdf

Author : Chris Landsberg,Jo-Ansie van Wyk
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780798302586

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South African Foreign Policy Review: Volume 1 by Chris Landsberg,Jo-Ansie van Wyk Pdf

The richness of public and academic discourses on the past, present and future direction of South Africas role in Africa and the world suggests that as a sub-discipline of politics, South African foreign policy is ready for a systematic and regular appraisal in the form of a series of publications that the Institute for Global Dialogue will call South African Foreign Policy Review. This is also because constant changes in international and domestic circumstances impinge on the management and analysis of South Africas foreign policy. This, the first review provides an important opportunity to build on existing foreign policy works in order to take stock of the road already travelled in the past decade or so. This is crucial in laying some basis for anticipating the countrys future role, and considering the opportunities and challenges, which future volumes of the review will consider. This volume provides a wide-ranging appraisal of the relationship between stated foreign policy goals and actual outputs and outcomes, an assessment of how foreign policy has actually been operationalized and implemented. To this end, common themes in South African foreign policy provide the framework for the first review. These include foreign policy decision-making; soft power dynamics in the foreign policys strategic calculus; diplomatic tools used economic diplomacy, peace diplomacy and paradiplomacy; South Africas relations with key states in Africa, in the global south and in the global north; South Africas approach to Africa multilateral, global multilateralism/governance. The review hopes to stimulate further discussion and thinking on the challenges confronted, and the future shape and direction of South Africas foreign policy.

Author : Francis Kornegay
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 44,5 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 : Ian Taylor,Paul Williams
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0415358361

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Africa in International Politics by Ian Taylor,Paul Williams Pdf

Locating Africa on the global stage, this book examines and compares external involvement in the continent, exploring the foreign policies of major states and international organizations towards Africa. The contributors work within a political economy framework in order to study how these powers have attempted to stimulate democracy, peace and prosperity in the context of neo-liberal hegemony and ask whom these attempts have benefited and failed.

Author : Alan S Alexandroff
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2008-02-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781554580415

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Can the World be Governed? by Alan S Alexandroff Pdf

In this book, leading international relations experts and practitioners examine through theory and case study the prospect for successful multilateral management of the global economy and international security. In the theory section contributors tackle the big questions: Why is there an apparent rising tide of calls for reform of current multilateral organizations and institutions? Why are there growing questions over the effectiveness of global governance? Is the reform of current organizations and institutions likely or possible? Case studies include the examination of difficulties facing global development, the challenges facing the IMF and the governance of global finance, the problems of the UN 2005 World Summit and its failed reform, and the WTO and the questions raised by the prolonged Doha Development Round. Co-published with the Centre for International Governance Innovation

Author : John W Harbeson,Donald Rothchild
Publisher : Westview Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 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 : Bade Onimode
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Africa
ISBN : IND:30000078270018

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Africa in the World of the 21st Century by Bade Onimode Pdf

Author : Réal P. Lavergne
Publisher : IDRC (International Development Research Centre)
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0865435677

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Regional Integration and Cooperation in West Africa by Réal P. Lavergne Pdf

This volume examines the failure of regional integration and cooperation to date in West Africa and explores some of the more holistic and economically liberal options for revitalization. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Author : D. Lee,I. Taylor,P. Williams
Publisher : Springer
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2006-05-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230503830

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The New Multilateralism in South African Diplomacy by D. Lee,I. Taylor,P. Williams Pdf

The New Multilateralism in South African Diplomacy provides a detailed analysis of how post-apartheid South Africa has participated in multilateral diplomacy in a variety of sub-regional, regional and international settings during the last decade. The book will interest scholars interested in multilateralism and South African foreign policy.

Author : Madeleine O. Hosli,Joren Selleslaghs
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 49,5 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 : Anna Katharina Stahl
Publisher : Springer
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137587022

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EU-China-Africa Trilateral Relations in a Multipolar World by Anna Katharina Stahl Pdf

This book considers the effect of China’s unprecedented economic growth and more prominent geopolitical role in the twenty-first century. Rising powers considerably alter international relations, leading to the emergence of a multipolar world order that impacts more traditional international players like the European Union (EU). China’s growing economic and diplomatic influence is particularly relevant in Africa, where it presents an alternative to conventional North-South relations and proposes a new type of South-South partnership. Stahl examines the EU’s foreign policy response regarding China’s growing presence in Africa, as well as the EU’s attempts to refocus attention on the African continent. Drawing on a rich body of evidence collected through fieldwork in China and Africa, and extensive expert interviews, the author sheds light on the novel trend of EU-China-Africa trilateral relations. The book offers a new analytical framework for the study of the EU’s foreign policy of engagement with emerging powers and will appeal to graduate students and scholars interested in the EU’s international role, international relations and development, as well as contemporary Chinese and African studies.