International Relations In Contemporary Africa

Author : Michael O. Anda
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0761815856

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International Relations in Contemporary Africa by Michael O. Anda Pdf

Although developing countries far outnumber fully industrialized states, they are often neglected in the study of international relations, especially with respect to the development of foreign policy theory. International Relations in Contemporary Africa attempts to fill this void in the literature on comparative international relations while at the same time providing a detailed analysis of the economic development and integration of West African countries. Michael Anda specifically focuses on the members of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and their policies, which encourage coordination on issues ranging from science and technology to diplomacy and mutual defense. Tracing the diplomatic history of West Africa from independence to the present, he assesses the various dimensions of cooperation among the smaller and less developed states of West Africa while revealing the precarious nature of the economy and security in the region. Both detailed and comprehensive, International Relations in Contemporary Africa represents a significant contribution to African studies that appeal to those with an interest in the foreign policy of smaller states.

Author : Fred Agwu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 714 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Africa
ISBN : 9780694528

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Themes and Perspectives on Contemporary Africa's International Relations by Fred Agwu Pdf

Author : Tim Murithi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136636967

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Handbook of Africa's International Relations by Tim Murithi Pdf

Africa’s international relations have often been defined and oriented by the dominant international and geopolitical agendas of the day. In the aftermath of colonialism the Cold War became a dominant paradigm that defined the nature of the continent’s relationship with the rest of the world. The contemporary forces of globalization are now exerting an undue influence and impact upon Africa’s international relations. Increasingly, the African continent is emerging as a vocal, and in some respects an influential, actor in international relations. There is a paucity of analysis and research on this emerging trend. This timely book proposes to fill this analytical gap by engaging with a wide range of issues, with chapters written by experts on a variety of themes. The emerging political prominence of the African continent on the world stage is predicated on an evolving internal process of continental integration. In particular, there are normative and policy efforts to revive the spirit of Pan-Africanism: the 21st century is witnessing the evolution of Pan-Africanism, notably through the constitution and establishment of the African Union (AU). Given the fact that there is a dearth of analysis on this phenomemon, this volume will also interrogate the notion of Pan-Africanism through various lenses – notably peace and security, development, the environment and trade. The volume will also engage with the emerging role of the AU as an international actor, e.g. with regard to its role in the reform of the United Nations Security Council, climate change, the International Criminal Court (ICC), the treaty establishing Africa as a nuclear-free zone, Internally Displaced Persons, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), international trade, the environment, public health issues, security, and development issues. This book will assess how the AU’s role as an international actor is complicated by the difficulty of promoting consensus among African states and then maintaining that consensus in the face of often divergent national interests. This book will in part assess the role of the AU in articulating collective and joint policies and in making interventions in international decision and policy-making circles. The Handbook will also assess the role of African social movements and their relationship with global actors. The role of African citizens in ameliorating their own conditions is often underplayed in the international relations discourse, and this volume will seek to redress this oversight. Throughout the book the various chapters will also assess the role that these citizen linkages have contributed towards continental integration and in confronting the challenges of globalization.

Author : S. Cornelissen,F. Cheru,T. Shaw
Publisher : Springer
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 51,6 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 : Tukumbi Lumumba-Kasongo
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1999-01-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780313370601

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The Dynamics of Economic and Political Relations Between Africa and Foreign Powers by Tukumbi Lumumba-Kasongo Pdf

International relations at large and Africa's in particular are shaped by the actors' historical location, by what they offer economically and culturally, and by who they are socially. In international relations nations tend to deal with objective conditions as they are or as they are perceived. However, Lumumba-Kasongo demonstrates through case-studies of Liberia and Zaire/Congo that what the objective conditions are may not necessarily be what they ought to be in the national development process. The international struggle for power between the West and the East and their supportive brutal and oppressive states in the South, especially in Africa, created the extremely weak conditions that redefined international relations as the tools of domination, rather than the tools of understanding and cooperation. As Lumumba-Kasongo clarifies, Africa did not gain economically or developmentally from this struggle. An important work for scholars and researchers of contemporary Africa and international relations in general.

Author : Christopher S. Clapham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0521576687

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Africa and the International System by Christopher S. Clapham Pdf

Paying for the state.

Author : Alexey M. Vasiliev,Denis A. Degterev,Timothy M. Shaw
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030773366

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Africa and the Formation of the New System of International Relations by Alexey M. Vasiliev,Denis A. Degterev,Timothy M. Shaw Pdf

This book discusses the prospects for the development of the African continent as part of the emerging system of international relations in the twenty-first century. African countries are playing an increasingly important part in the current system of international relations. Nevertheless, even 60 years after gaining their independence, most of them are confronted with regional and global issues that are directly related to their colonial past and its influence. Due to Africa’s wealth of natural and geopolitical resources, the possibility of interference in the internal affairs of African countries on the part of new and traditional global actors remains very real. Leading Africanists, together with international scholars from both international relations and African studies, examine the experience of decolonization, the impact of the emergence of a unipolar world on the African continent, and the growing influence of new international actors on the African continent in the twenty-first century. In addition, the importance of African countries’ foreign policy concepts and ideological attitudes in the post-bipolar period is revealed. “This volume strengthens the intellectual bridge between Russian, African and Western scholars of international relations. Strongly recommended!” Vladimir G. Shubin, Institute for African Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences “This book presents a wide range of prominent global scholars who bring a wealth of knowledge on the subject of Africa and the world.” Gilbert Khadiagala, Jan Smuts Professor of International Relations and Director of the African Centre for the Study of the USA (ACSUS) at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. “As a genuine contribution to the field of international relations and Global South Agency, this book should be in every institution of higher education’s library.” Lembe Tiky, Director of Academic Development, International Studies Association.

Author : Francis Onditi,Gilad Ben-Nun,Cristina D'Alessandro,Zack Levey
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 40,7 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.

Author : K. Dunn,T. Shaw
Publisher : Springer
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2001-02-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780333977538

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Africa's Challenge to International Relations Theory by K. Dunn,T. Shaw Pdf

Africa has been noticeably absent in international relations theory. This new collection of essays by contemporary Africanists convincingly demonstrates the importance of the continent to every theoretical approach in international relations. This collection breaks new ground in how we think about both international relations and Africa, re-examining such foundational concepts as sovereignty, the state, and power; critically investigating the salience of realism, neo-liberalism, liberalism in Africa, and providing new thinking about regionalism, security and identity.

Author : Jason Warner,Timothy M. Shaw
Publisher : Springer
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137575746

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African Foreign Policies in International Institutions by Jason Warner,Timothy M. Shaw Pdf

This book is the first to exclusively consider the foreign policy tendencies of African states in international institutions. As an edited volume offering empirically based perspectives from a variety of scholars, this project disabuses the notion that Africa should be considered a "niche" interest in the field of foreign policy analysis. It asserts that the actions of the continent's states collectively serve as an important heuristic by which to interrogate and understand the foreign policies of other global states, and are not simply "anomalously" extant entities whose actions should be studied only insofar as they deviate from predictions based on the experiences of Western or other non-African states.

Author : Caroline Starbird,Brettschneider, Martha,Ertenberg, Samantha
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Africa, Sub-Saharan
ISBN : 0943804981

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Concepts in International Relations by Caroline Starbird,Brettschneider, Martha,Ertenberg, Samantha Pdf

Author : Naomi Chazan,Robert A. Mortimer,Donald Rothchild,Peter Lewis,Stephen John Stedman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 539 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1999-11-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781349144907

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Politics and Society in Contemporary Africa by Naomi Chazan,Robert A. Mortimer,Donald Rothchild,Peter Lewis,Stephen John Stedman Pdf

Africa has undergone significant political, economic, and social change since the first edition of this book was published in early 1988. Now revised and updated throughout, this new edition includes current economic, social, and political data, as well as entirely new sections on the dismantling of apartheid, civil society, democratization and multiparty politics, economic reform and structural adjustment, and the prospects for African development in the twenty-first century. Review comments on the first edition: 'Required reading for any course on politics and society of the African continent' West Africa. 'The best available textbook on the subject ... this volume stands unchallenged in its comprehensiveness and sophistication.' - Choice

Author : Naomi Chazan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:49015001385849

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Politics and Society in Contemporary Africa by Naomi Chazan Pdf

Africa has undergone significant political, economic and social change since 1988. Now revised and updated, this book includes current economic, social and political data, as well as new sections on the dismantling of apartheid, civil society, democratizat

Author : Naomi Chazan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 543 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Africa
ISBN : 0333694759

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Politics and Society in Contemporary Africa by Naomi Chazan Pdf

The new edition of this text includes entirely new chapters on political economy and South Africa, and has been thoroughly revised throughout to reflect the major changes in Africa and in the wider world since the end of the Cold War. The book seeks to improve our understanding of the multiple forces at work on the continent.

Author : Rajen Harshé
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429535345

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Africa in World Affairs by Rajen Harshé Pdf

Africa finds itself at the centre stage of world politics in the twenty-first century. To truly determine its rising influence and role in world affairs would mean unravelling the politics of imperialism, the Cold War and globalisation. Going beyond Euro-American perspectives, this book presents a comprehensive study of Africa and its role in world politics. Africa in World Affairs: • Closely examines the transition of Africa in its colonial and post-colonial phases; • Explores the intellectual history of modern Africa through liberation struggles, social movements, leaders and thinkers; • Investigates the continent’s relationships with former colonial powers such as Britain, France and Portugal; untangles complexities of French neo-colonialism and sheds light on the role of the superpower, such as the USA and major and rising powers like China and India; • Highlights complex and wide-ranging diversities of the region, and the ways in which it continues to negotiate with issues of modernity, racism and globalisation. A core text on Africa and the world, this book will be indispensable for students of African studies, politics and international relations, and history. It will also be a must-read for policymakers, diplomats and government think tanks.