African Dynamics In A Multipolar World

Author : Ulf Engel,Manuel João Ramos
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004256507

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African Dynamics in a Multipolar World by Ulf Engel,Manuel João Ramos Pdf

Fifty years after the foundation of the OAU and the consolidation of most African states and institutions, the international panorama and Africa’s position in it have changed considerably. The world's geopolitical and economic configuration has evolved, with new actors appearing in a new period of globalization. In tone with ECAS 2013, this volume proposes that the experiences appearing in Africa question dominant paradigms in terms of political practice and academic reflection and thus offer a clear challenge to the academic community. The volume offers clues to answer questions such as: What is the impact of the current processes of globalization for African countries and African citizens? How should African Studies be engaged to gauge African dynamics, both at a local and global level? What interdisciplinary means and tools should be brought in to produce an epistemologically relevant view (or narrative) of the issues under analysis?

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:868263856

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African Dynamics in a Multipolar World by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ton Dietz,Kjell Havnevik,Mayke Kaag,Terje Oestigaard
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2011-05-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789004211377

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African Engagements by Ton Dietz,Kjell Havnevik,Mayke Kaag,Terje Oestigaard Pdf

By taking the emerging multipolarity at the global level as its focus, by highlighting African agency in co-shaping this new world order, and by adopting a historically sensitive approach, this collection aims to analyse African engagements and asks on whose terms these engagements are being built.

Author : Anna Katharina Stahl
Publisher : Springer
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 53,9 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.

Author : Mohamed Abdullaahi Abdulle,Alex Tamunomiegbam,Abdifatah Osman Hussein,Dr. Josiah Mutembei
Publisher : Cari Journals USA LLC
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2024-04-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789914978520

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Fundamentals of International Relations by Mohamed Abdullaahi Abdulle,Alex Tamunomiegbam,Abdifatah Osman Hussein,Dr. Josiah Mutembei Pdf

TOPICS IN THE BOOK The Rise of the Multipolar World Order: Opportunities and Challenges for Africa Cultural Diplomacy as a Key Component of Economic and Political Diplomacy: The Lessons for Nigeria Evaluating UNHCR’s Actions in Response to the Level 3 Sudan War Refugee Crisis in Ethiopia and Uganda: The Role of the Affected Community in the United Nations Policy and Practice Context Role of the Humanitarian – Development – Peace (HDP) Nexus Evidence in Tackling Protracted Environmental Conflicts in Somalia The Role of Intergovernmental Organizations on Poverty Reduction in Africa. A Critical Literature Review

Author : Jon Schubert,Ulf Engel,Elísio Macamo
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351200615

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Extractive Industries and Changing State Dynamics in Africa by Jon Schubert,Ulf Engel,Elísio Macamo Pdf

This book uses extractive industry projects in Africa to explore how political authority and the nation-state are reconfigured at the intersection of national political contestations and global, transnational capital. Instead of focusing on technological zones and the new social assemblages at the actual sites of construction or mineral extraction, the authors use extractive industry projects as a topical lens to investigate contemporary processes of state-making at the state–corporation nexus. Throughout the book, the authors seek to understand how public political actors and private actors of liberal capitalism negotiate and redefine notions and practices of sovereignty by setting legal, regulatory and fiscal standards. Rather than looking at resource governance from a normative perspective, the authors look at how these negotiations are shaped by and reshape the self-conception of various national and transnational actors, and how these jointly redefine the role of the state in managing these processes for the ‘greater good’. Extractive Industries and Changing State Dynamics in Africa will be useful for researchers, upper-level students and policy-makers who are interested in new articulations of state-making and politics in Africa.

Author : Albert Kasanda,Marek Hrubec
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 41,8 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 : Franklin Obeng-Odoom
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781108491990

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Property, Institutions, and Social Stratification in Africa by Franklin Obeng-Odoom Pdf

Explores and challenges existing conventions of inequality in Africa while offering new insights to explain persistent poverty across the continent.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004471641

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African Futures by Anonim Pdf

The essays in this collection are written to make readers (re)consider what is possible in Africa. The essays shake the tree of received wisdom and received categories, and hone in on the complexities of life under ecological and economic constraints. Yet, throughout this volume, people do not emerge as victims, but rather as inventors, engineers, scientists, planners, writers, artists, and activists, or as children, mothers, fathers, friends, or lovers – all as future-makers. It is precisely through agents such as these that Africa is futuring: rethinking, living, confronting, imagining, and relating in the light of its many emerging tomorrows.

Author : Ngonlardje Kabra Mbaidjol
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789004388246

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African Countries and the Global Scramble for China by Ngonlardje Kabra Mbaidjol Pdf

In African Countries and the Global Scramble for China, Mbaidjol engages the reader, from African perspectives and African People’s interests, in a theme that is currently fuelling international relations debates.

Author : Fantu Cheru,Cyril Obi
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2010-03-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781848138278

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The Rise of China and India in Africa by Fantu Cheru,Cyril Obi Pdf

In recent years, China and India have become the most important economic partners of Africa and their footprints are growing by leaps and bounds, transforming Africa's international relations in a dramatic way. Although the overall impact of China and India's engagement in Africa has been positive in the short-term, partly as a result of higher returns from commodity exports fuelled by excessive demands from both countries, little research exists on the actual impact of China and India's growing involvement on Africa's economic transformation. This book examines in detail the opportunities and challenges posed by the increasing presence of China and India in Africa, and proposes critical interventions that African governments must undertake in order to negotiate with China and India from a stronger and more informed platform.

Author : Redie Bereketeab
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2023-03-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783031241628

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Historical Sociology of State Formation in the Horn of Africa by Redie Bereketeab Pdf

This book analyses the historical sociology of state formation in the Horn of Africa. It examines the genesis, trajectories, processes, routes and consequences of the evolution of state formation. Three analytical and explanatory models explain the process of state formation in the HOA: proto-state, colonial and national liberation. The models, heuristically and innovatively, provide understanding, interpretation and analysis of state formation. While the proto-state model explicates an indigenous historical process of state formation, the colonial model refers to an externally designed and imposed process of state formation. The national liberation model concern state formation conducted under liberation movement and ideology. The distinct significance of these models is that collectively they generate sufficient analysis of state formation. They are also unique in that they have never been employed as aggregate analytical and explicative instruments to address the predicament of state formation in the Horn of Africa.

Author : Kalle Kananoja
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108491259

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Healing Knowledge in Atlantic Africa by Kalle Kananoja Pdf

Kananoja demonstrates how medical interaction in early modern Atlantic Africa was characterised by continuous knowledge exchange between Africans and Europeans.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004326736

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South Africa after Apartheid by Anonim Pdf

As South Africa has entered the third decade after the end of apartheid, this book aims at taking stock of the post-apartheid dynamics in the crucial fields of APRM-relevant politics, social development, land and regional relations.

Author : Cliff Awah
Publisher : Notion Press
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9798894150420

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If Bill Gates Were An African… by Cliff Awah Pdf

It is not a common feat for an African to produce a well-researched work on the life of one of America’s richest persons and put it alongside Africa’s predicaments. In this spell-bounding publication, Cliff brings in the African continent with its rich natural and human resources but with a very sorry story. He has masterfully explained the colonization of Africa and Africans by European Powers. But, the wounds and scars of slavery which were aggravated by the impact of colonialism, tribalism, Neo-colonialism and the failure of African leaders and policy-makers to create a conducive atmosphere for the socio-economic and political development of African countries are largely responsible for the miseries in Africa. In this soul-searching book, Africans and more especially African leaders, policy-makers and businessmen and women should not willy-nilly transplant what exists in the USA and/or in Europe but should rather adapt what is good, taking into account the African context (Victor Julius Ngoh, ‘Foreword’). If Bill Gates Were An African, is a wakeup call appealing to the consciences of Africans especially its leaders to make use of the various cultures and civilizations of the world to build a better Africa – the Africa we want, that meets the needs and aspirations of Africans. An Africa with Good Governance, free from corruption, embezzlement, nepotism and a land of freedom and opportunities for Africans to exploit and have better living conditions worthy of their human dignity (Cliff Awah, ‘Preface’).