Globalization And Emerging Trends In African States Foreign Policy Making Process

Author : Rok Ajulu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 587 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000160635

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Globalization and Emerging Trends in African States' Foreign Policy-Making Process by Rok Ajulu Pdf

This title was first published in 2002: The resurgence of the democratization movement in Africa in the post-Cold War era is gradually replacing authoritarianism with forms of democratic systems. These changes have put into question the traditional big man image of African states’ foreign policy and foreign policy-making. The first book of its kind to focus on the foreign policy-making process of Southern African countries in the era of globalization, these instructive and rewarding case studies contextualize the increasing involvement of other internal actors in African states foreign policy-making process. Foreign policy actors such as the Presidency, Ministries of Defence, Foreign Affairs, Trade, Finance and the Intelligence Community, among others, are examined in a comparative perspective.

Author : Korwa Gombe Adar,Peter J. Schraeder
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Political Science
ISBN : IND:30000116494034

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Globalization and Emerging Trends in African Foreign Policy by Korwa Gombe Adar,Peter J. Schraeder Pdf

This collection of 13 essays examines the emerging trends in foreign policy formulation, implementation, and evaluation in post Cold War Africa and explores the implication of African foriegn policy on the world stage.

Author : K. G. (Korwa G); Schraeder Adar (P. J. (Peter J))
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1037143892

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Globalization and Emerging Trends in African Foreign Policy by K. G. (Korwa G); Schraeder Adar (P. J. (Peter J)) Pdf

Author : Ulf Engel,Gorm Rye Olsen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2004-11-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134315871

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Africa and the North by Ulf Engel,Gorm Rye Olsen Pdf

An important new discussion of Africa's place in the international system. This volume discusses Africa's place in the international system, examining the way in which the Westphalian system, in light of the impact of globalization and transnational networks, continues to play a major role in the structuring of Africa's international relations. The book provides a solid empirical analysis of key global players in Africa - France, the UK, the US, Japan, Germany, the EU and the UN - and of their policies towards the region. In the context of the 'war against terrorism', African political stability becomes a consideration of increasing importance. By analyzing the relevance of the states in the North, this book challenges conventional wisdom in recent international relations thinking. It applies the concept of an 'international policy community' to bridge the gap between the 'domestic' and the 'international', explaining why Africa retains a role in global politics out of any proportion to its economic weight.

Author : Joseph E. Stiglitz
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2003-04-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780393071078

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Globalization and Its Discontents by Joseph E. Stiglitz Pdf

This powerful, unsettling book gives us a rare glimpse behind the closed doors of global financial institutions by the winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics. When it was first published, this national bestseller quickly became a touchstone in the globalization debate. Renowned economist and Nobel Prize winner Joseph E. Stiglitz had a ringside seat for most of the major economic events of the last decade, including stints as chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers and chief economist at the World Bank. Particularly concerned with the plight of the developing nations, he became increasingly disillusioned as he saw the International Monetary Fund and other major institutions put the interests of Wall Street and the financial community ahead of the poorer nations. Those seeking to understand why globalization has engendered the hostility of protesters in Seattle and Genoa will find the reasons here. While this book includes no simple formula on how to make globalization work, Stiglitz provides a reform agenda that will provoke debate for years to come. Rarely do we get such an insider's analysis of the major institutions of globalization as in this penetrating book. With a new foreword for this paperback edition.

Author : National Intelligence Council
Publisher : Cosimo Reports
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1646794974

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Global Trends 2040 by National Intelligence Council Pdf

"The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic marks the most significant, singular global disruption since World War II, with health, economic, political, and security implications that will ripple for years to come." -Global Trends 2040 (2021) Global Trends 2040-A More Contested World (2021), released by the US National Intelligence Council, is the latest report in its series of reports starting in 1997 about megatrends and the world's future. This report, strongly influenced by the COVID-19 pandemic, paints a bleak picture of the future and describes a contested, fragmented and turbulent world. It specifically discusses the four main trends that will shape tomorrow's world: - Demographics-by 2040, 1.4 billion people will be added mostly in Africa and South Asia. - Economics-increased government debt and concentrated economic power will escalate problems for the poor and middleclass. - Climate-a hotter world will increase water, food, and health insecurity. - Technology-the emergence of new technologies could both solve and cause problems for human life. Students of trends, policymakers, entrepreneurs, academics, journalists and anyone eager for a glimpse into the next decades, will find this report, with colored graphs, essential reading.

Author : Daniel A. Morales-Gomez
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1138459186

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Transnational Social Policies by Daniel A. Morales-Gomez Pdf

Addresses and analyses the increasing influence of transnational economic, commercial, political and legal policies on the national policies of developing countries. The text includes case studies from a range of developing countries in Asia, Africa and the Americas and analyzes the effects of globalization on national health, education, employment and welfare.

Author : Korwa Gombe Adar,Abdalla Hamdok,Joram Rukambe
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780798302104

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Electoral Process and the Prospects for Democracy Consolidation by Korwa Gombe Adar,Abdalla Hamdok,Joram Rukambe Pdf

Any study of Africa's multiparty elections reveals inherent institutional and systemic difficulties that raise questions about the electoral outcomes in the emerging democracies. An assessment of electoral processes in Africa poses methodological, conceptual, and theoretical challenges to scholars and practitioners. The chapters of this volume address these issues through an assessment of the electoral processes and an examination of democratisation trends in Africa, with special focus on case studies. The chapters on Algeria, Cameroon, Ghana, Malawi, Mozambique, and South Africa analyse these complexities holistically. They examine: the potency and independence of electoral institutions; adherence to electoral laws by those charged with the statutory powers as well as the participants in the elections; the role of the media, election monitors and observers, civil society, and political parties. The authors also assess whether or not elections were conducted in a free and fair environment conducive for multiparty electoral practice and consolidation.

Author : Klaus (Professor of International Relations Brummer, Catholic University of Eichstatt-Ingolstadt),Kai (Professor for International Politics Oppermann, Chemnitz University of Technology)
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2024-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780192857453

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Foreign Policy Analysis by Klaus (Professor of International Relations Brummer, Catholic University of Eichstatt-Ingolstadt),Kai (Professor for International Politics Oppermann, Chemnitz University of Technology) Pdf

Author : Adekeye Adebajo,Kudrat Virk
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 52,6 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 : W. Alade Fawole
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781498564618

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The Illusion of the Post-Colonial State by W. Alade Fawole Pdf

This book challenges the long-held conventional wisdom that Africa is a post-colonial society of sovereign nation-states despite the outward attributes of statehood: demarcated territories, permanent populations, governments, national currencies, police, and armed forces. While it is true that African nation-states have been gifted flag independence by their respective colonial masters, few have reached fully developed status as a secure nation-state. Most African nation-states have, since independence, been grappling with the crisis of state-building, nation-building, governance, and myriad security challenges which have been chronically exacerbated by the dynamics of the post-Cold War era. To focus merely on the agency of the African political elite and their inability to sustain functional modern nation-states misses the point. The central argument of the book is that an understanding of Africa’s contemporary governance and security challenges requires us to historicize the discourse surrounding nation-building and state-building throughout Africa.

Author : Chris Saunders,Gwinyayi Albert Dzinesa,Dawn Nagar
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781780321813

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Region-Building in Southern Africa by Chris Saunders,Gwinyayi Albert Dzinesa,Dawn Nagar Pdf

How successful have Southern African states been in dealing with the major issues that have faced the region in recent years? What could be done to produce more cohesive and effective region-building in Southern Africa? In this original and wide-ranging volume, which draws on an interdisciplinary team of mainly African and African-based specialists, the key political, socio-economic, and security challenges facing Southern Africa today are addressed. These include the various issues confronting the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and its institutions; such as HIV/AIDS, migration and xenophobia, land-grabbing and climate change; and the role of the main external actors involved with the region, including the United Nations, the European Union, the United States, and China. The book also looks at the Southern African Customs Union and Southern African Development Finance Institutions, including the Development Bank of Southern Africa and Industrial Development Corporation, and issues of gender and peacebuilding. In doing so, the book goes to the heart of analyzing the effectiveness of SADC and other regional organisation, suggesting how region-building in Southern Africa may be compared with similar attempts elsewhere in Africa and other parts of the world.

Author : J. Mangala
Publisher : Springer
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2010-12-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230117303

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Africa and the New World Era by J. Mangala Pdf

Over the last decade, there has been a shift toward a strategic view of Africa. China and the US import much of their oil from Africa which is clearly emerging on the world stage as a strategic player. Africa and the New World Era probes the importance and significance of this shift and its implications for Africa's international relations.

Author : Ian Taylor,Paul Williams
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2004-02-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134367122

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Africa in International Politics by Ian Taylor,Paul Williams Pdf

Introduction : understanding Africa's place in world politics / Ian Taylor and Paul Williams -- The contending currents in United States involvement in Sub-Saharan Africa / James J. Hentz -- Britain and Africa after the Cold War : beyond damage limitation? / Paul Williams -- France's policy towards Africa : continuity or change? / Daniela Kroslak -- The "all-weather friend"? : Sino-African interaction in the twenty-first century / Ian Taylor -- Russia and Africa : moving in the right direction? / Vladimir Shubin -- Japan-Africa relations : patterns and prospects / Scarlett Cornelissen -- Canada and Africa : activist aspirations in straitened circumstances / David Black -- the European Union's external relations with Africa after the Cold War : aspects of continuity and change / Stephen R. Hurt -- The international financial institutions' relations with Africa : insights from the issue of representation and voice / Caroline Thomas -- From Congo to Congo : United Nations peacekeeping in Africa / Adekeye Adebajo.

Author : Charles Chukwuma Soludo,Michael Osita Ogbu,Ha-Joon Chang
Publisher : IDRC
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Africa
ISBN : 9781592211654

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The Politics of Trade and Industrial Policy in Africa by Charles Chukwuma Soludo,Michael Osita Ogbu,Ha-Joon Chang Pdf

This book maps the process and political economy of policy making in Africa. It's focus on trade and industrial policy makes it unique and it will appeal to students and academics in economics, political economy, political science and African studies. Detailed case studies help the reader to understand how the process and motivation behind policy decisions can vary from country to country depending on the form of government, ethnicity and nationality and other social factors.