From Global Apartheid To Global Village

Author : Adekeye Adebajo
Publisher : University of Kwazulu Natal Press
Page : 0 pages
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Release : 2009
Category : Economic development
ISBN : 1869141725

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From Global Apartheid to Global Village by Adekeye Adebajo Pdf

This comprehensive collection, written by an eminent group of Pan-African scholars and practitioners, is of critical significance to Africa.fills a crucial gap in the literature and should help encourage strong Southern voices to contribute to debates on the UN that are often dominated by the North. ~ Boutros Boutros-Ghali, United Nations Secretary-General, 1992-1996 *** No African scholar has followed more closely for well over a decade the UN's decisions relating to the continent than Adekeye Adebajo. This volume.brings together many of Africa's leading scholars on and practitioners of international relations to address aspects of the UN's influence on Africa and Africa's role in shaping wider patterns of UN decision-making. It is a truly exceptional contribution to the study of international relations. - David M. Malone, President, International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Canada *** Adekeye Adebajo has assembled a stellar cast to dissect how Africa and Africans have influenced the United Nations, and how the world body has at turns empowered and failed the continent. The result: a policy-savvy collection rich in both opinion and analysis - and the most comprehensive volume on the UN and Africa available. - Sam Daws, Executive Director, United Nations Association of the United Kingdom *** This volume is long over due, given the centrality of Africa for the UN and the UN for Africa. Enriched by Adekeye Adebajo's unrelenting candour and invaluable insights, From Global Apartheid to Global Village will be standard reading for scholars, students, and policymakers alike or many years to come. Its broad scope.is particularly welcome. - Edward C. Luck, Senior Vice President and Director of Studies, International Peace Institute, New York

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1434127631

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From Global Apartheid to Global VIllage by Anonim Pdf

He is the author of Th e Rentier State in Africa: Oil-Rent Dependency and Neo-colonialism in the Republic of Gabon, co-author of Oil Policy in the Gulf of Guinea: Security and Confl ict, Economic Growth, Social Development and co-editor of the third edition of the Historical Dictionary of Gabon. [...] Th is in turn means downgrading the importance of the 192-member UN General Assembly, and shift ing the centre of gravity to the more collegial and manageable entities, such as the fi ft een-member UN Security Council and the executive boards of the Bretton Woods institutions: the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). [...] Th e organisation was born in the American city of San Francisco with the following loft y aspirations, contained in the preamble of its Charter: to 'save succeeding generations from the scourge of war ... to reaffi rm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person, in the equal rights of men and women and of nations large and small ... to promote social progress and b. [...] Chapter III lists the functions of the UN's six 'principal organs': the Security Council; the General Assembly; the Economic and Social Council; the Trusteeship Council; the International Court of Justice (ICJ) - the successor to the Permanent Court of International Justice, and also known as the World Court; and the secretariat. [...] Th e temporary absence of Russia from the UN (in protest at the People's Republic of China not being allowed to take up its seat at the UN in place of Taiwan) in 1950 saw the US make the 'extra-legal' transfer of the Security Council's role to the US-dominated General Assembly during the Korean War of 1950-1953.

Author : Artwell Nhemachena,Howard Tafara Chitimira,Tapiwa Victor Warikandwa
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781793643377

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Global Jurisprudential Apartheid in the Twenty-First Century by Artwell Nhemachena,Howard Tafara Chitimira,Tapiwa Victor Warikandwa Pdf

In Global Jurisprudential Apartheid in the Twenty-First Century: Universalism and Particularism in International Law, the contributors argue that the world is witnessing the formation of a global jurisprudential apartheid despite the promotion of democracy, equality, human rights, and humanitarianism. Examining organisations such as international criminal courts, the World Trade Organisation, the United Nations Security Council, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Bank, the contributors unpack the challenges of global jurisprudential apartheid. In particular, they analyse the ways in which these organizations hold and contribute to the increasing inequalities between the Global North and the Global South. Ultimately, Global Jurisprudential Apartheid in the Twenty-First Century shows that globalisation is a variant of the apartheid era particularism and not universalism, working to advantage the Global North while disadvantaging the Global South under the pretense of humanitarianism.

Author : Thomas G. Weiss,Rorden Wilkinson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 949 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000843392

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International Organization and Global Governance by Thomas G. Weiss,Rorden Wilkinson Pdf

Completely revised and updated, this textbook continues to offer the most comprehensive resource available. Concise chapters from a diverse mix of established and emerging global scholars offer accessible, in-depth coverage of the history and theories of international organization and global governance and discussions of the full range of state, intergovernmental, and non-state actors. All chapters have been revised and rewritten to reflect the rapid development of world events, with new chapters added on: Chinese approaches to international organization and global governance The UN System The Global South Sustaining the Peace Queering International Organization and Global Governance Post-colonial Global Governance The Sustainable Development Goals The English School Inequality Migration Divided into seven parts woven together by a comprehensive introduction, along with separate introductions to each part and helpful pointers to further reading, International Organization and Global Governance provides a balanced, critical perspective that enables readers to comprehend more fully the role of myriad actors in the governance of global life.

Author : Adekeye Adebajo,Kudrat Virk
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781786723321

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Foreign Policy in Post-Apartheid South Africa by Adekeye Adebajo,Kudrat Virk Pdf

South Africa is the most industrialized power in Africa. It was rated the continent's largest economy in 2016 and is the only African member of the G20. It is also the only strategic partner of the EU in Africa. Yet despite being so strategically and economically significant, there is little scholarship that focuses on South Africa as a regional hegemon. This book provides the first comprehensive assessment of South Africa's post-Apartheid foreign policy. Over its 23 chapters - -and with contributions from established Africa, Western, Asian and American scholars, as well as diplomats and analysts - the book examines the current pattern of the country's foreign relations in impressive detail. The geographic and thematic coverage is extensive, including chapters on: the domestic imperatives of South Africa's foreign policy; peace-making; defence and security; bilateral relations in Southern, Central, West, Eastern and North Africa; bilateral relations with the US, China, Britain, France and Japan; the country's key external multilateral relations with the UN; the BRICS economic grouping; the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group (ACP); as well as the EU and the World Trade Organization (WTO). An essential resource for researchers, the book will be relevant to the fields of area studies, foreign policy, history, international relations, international law, security studies, political economy and development studies.

Author : Adekaye Adebajo
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781780329451

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Africa's Peacemakers by Adekaye Adebajo Pdf

As Africa and its diaspora commemorate fifty years of post-independence Pan-Africanism, this unique volume provides profound insight into the thirteen prominent individuals of African descent who have won the Nobel Peace Prize since 1950. From the first American president of African descent, Barack Obama, whose career was inspired by the civil rights and anti-apartheid struggles promoted by fellow Nobel Peace laureates Martin Luther King, Jr., Nelson Mandela, Desmond Tutu, and Albert Luthuli; to influential figures in peacemaking such as Ralph Bunche, Anwar Sadat, Kofi Annan, and F.W. De Klerk; as well as Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Leymah Gbowee, Wangari Maathai, and Mohamed El-Baradei, who have been variously involved in women's rights, environmental protection, and nuclear disarmament, Africa's Peacemakers reveals how this remarkable collection of individuals have changed the world - for better or worse.

Author : Charles Piot
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2008-11-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780226189833

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Remotely Global by Charles Piot Pdf

At first glance, the remote villages of the Kabre people of northern Togo appear to have all the trappings of a classic "out of the way" African culture—subsistence farming, straw-roofed houses, and rituals to the spirits and ancestors. Arguing that village life is in fact an effect of the modern and the global, Charles Piot suggests that Kabre culture is shaped as much by colonial and postcolonial history as by anything "indigenous" or local. Through analyses of everyday and ceremonial social practices, Piot illustrates the intertwining of modernity with tradition and of the local with the national and global. In a striking example of the appropriation of tradition by the state, Togo's Kabre president regularly flies to the region in his helicopter to witness male initiation ceremonies. Confounding both anthropological theorizations and the State Department's stereotyped images of African village life, Remotely Global aims to rethink Euroamerican theories that fail to come to terms with the fluidity of everyday relations in a society where persons and things are forever in motion.

Author : Thomas Klak
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780585080789

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Globalization and Neoliberalism by Thomas Klak Pdf

How do recent trends toward globalization affect the Caribbean, a region whose suppliers, production, markets, and politics have been globalized for centuries? What is the status of neoliberal development policy in the Caribbean, where the rewards for belt tightening and economic opening have been slow in coming? How have Caribbean policymakers and citizens responded to and resisted the pressures to conform to the new rules of the global economy? By examining these questions through the lens of political economy, this volume explores the interaction among development, trade, foreign policy, the environment, tourism, gender relations, and migration. With its global implications, this book will be invaluable for students and scholars from all disciplines who are concerned with the impact of development and globalization.

Author : Monica Serrano,Thomas G. Weiss
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317915645

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The International Politics of Human Rights by Monica Serrano,Thomas G. Weiss Pdf

The responsibility to protect (R2P) is at a crossroads, the latest in a journey that is only ten years old. This book present debates on the prevention of mass atrocities to R2P’s normative prospects. The book addresses key questions as a way to inform and drive on-going conversations about R2P. Moving beyond well-rehearsed debates about the tensions and meanings around sovereignty in R2P practice, the book focuses on advancing the credibility of the preventive dimensions of R2P, whilst simultaneously examining the extent of R2P’s current value-added in state decision making—especially for the 2011 actions in Libya and Côte d’Ivoire. Questions addressed include: Did the R2P framework of the 2005 World Summit Declaration intend to mould sovereignty, and if so how? Can R2P break or revert cycles of violence? How can one determine the appropriate duration and timing of the preventive and protective phases of R2P? Who/what should be the targets of preventive action, and how does this have an impact on R2P diplomacy? Under which conditions are particular policy tools likely to be effective? Which state and regional actors are best suited to using these tools? What are the barriers to successful preventive action—how can they be overcome? What capacities need to be built (at the national, regional, and international levels) in order to operationalize R2P’s preventive agenda? Examining a wide range of countries, this work will be essential reading for students and scholars of international human rights, international organizations, peacekeeping and conflict resolution.

Author : New York African Studies Association. Conference
Publisher : Global Academic Publishing
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 158684220X

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The Africana Human Condition and Global Dimensions by New York African Studies Association. Conference Pdf

Author : Martin S. Shanguhyia,Toyin Falola
Publisher : Springer
Page : 1362 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137594266

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The Palgrave Handbook of African Colonial and Postcolonial History by Martin S. Shanguhyia,Toyin Falola Pdf

This wide-ranging volume presents the most complete appraisal of modern African history to date. It assembles dozens of new and established scholars to tackle the questions and subjects that define the field, ranging from the economy, the two world wars, nationalism, decolonization, and postcolonial politics to religion, development, sexuality, and the African youth experience. Contributors are drawn from numerous fields in African studies, including art, music, literature, education, and anthropology. The themes they cover illustrate the depth of modern African history and the diversity and originality of lenses available for examining it. Older themes in the field have been treated to an engaging re-assessment, while new and emerging themes are situated as the book’s core strength. The result is a comprehensive, vital picture of where the field of modern African history stands today.

Author : Bruno Amoroso
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Globalization
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114002863

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Global apartheid by Bruno Amoroso Pdf

Author : Toyin Falola,Jessica Achberger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136683879

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The Political Economy of Development and Underdevelopment in Africa by Toyin Falola,Jessica Achberger Pdf

While Africa is too often regarded as lying on the periphery of the global political arena, this is not the case. African nations have played an important historical role in world affairs. It is with this understanding that the authors in this volume set out upon researching and writing their chapters, making an important collective contribution to our understanding of modern Africa. Taken as a whole, the chapters represent the range of research in African development, and fully tie this development to the global political economy. African nations play significant roles in world politics, both as nations influenced by the ebbs and flows of the global economy and by the international political system, but also as actors, directly influencing politics and economics. It is only through an understanding of both the history and present place of Africa in global affairs that we can begin to assess the way forward for future development.

Author : E. Aksu,J. Camilleri
Publisher : Springer
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2002-07-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781403907110

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Democratizing Global Governance by E. Aksu,J. Camilleri Pdf

Is globalization beyond human control? In this thought-provoking text, the myths and mantras of this apparently irresistible force are challenged and dissembled. By examining a number of fundamental questions, the contributors put forward a radical reform agenda for global governance. Can the global multilateral system be democratic? Are security and economic concerns separable? Can the development of a global civil society contribute to effective global governance? An important and wide ranging study, this book will be essential reading for graduates and researchers in international relations.

Author : Manuel Fröhlich,Abiodun Williams
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780192538215

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The UN Secretary-General and the Security Council by Manuel Fröhlich,Abiodun Williams Pdf

The United Nations Secretary-General and the United Nations Security Council spend significant amounts of time on their relationship with each other. They rely on each other for such important activities as peacekeeping, international mediation, and the formulation and application of normative standards in defense of international peace and security - in other words the executive aspects of the UN's work. The UN Secretary-General and the Security Council fills an important lacuna in the scholarship on the UN system. Although there exists today an impressive body of literature on the development and significance of the Secretariat and the Security Council as separate organs, an important gap remains in our understanding of the interactions between them. Bringing together some of the most prominent authorities on the subject, this volume is the first book-length treatment of this topic. It studies the UN from an innovative angle, creating new insights on the (autonomous) policy-making of international organizations, and adds to our understanding of the dynamics of intra-organizational relationships. Within the book, the contributors examine how each Secretary-General interacted with the Security Council, touching upon such issues as the role of personality, the formal and informal infrastructure of the relationship, the selection and appointment processes, as well as the Secretary-General's threefold role as a crisis manager, administrative manager, and manager of ideas.