The Political Economy Of Foreign Policy In Ecowas

Author : Timothy M Shaw,Julius Emeka Okolo
Publisher : Springer
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1994-05-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781349232772

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The Political Economy of Foreign Policy in ECOWAS by Timothy M Shaw,Julius Emeka Okolo Pdf

Both political economy and foreign policy have been transformed in the sixteen states of West Africa at the start of the 1990s because of interrelated external factors (end of the Cold War and start of a New International Division of Labour) and internal factors (national structural adjustment programmes). Sixteen leading analysts of new regional relations, of both cooperation and conflict, offer original revisionist insights into ECOWAS and ECOMOG, debt and democracy, reform and resistance. The mixture of case studies and comparative analyses constitutes a comprehensive overview of West African actors, issues, structures, perspectives and possibilities at the end of the century, with relevance for development discourses and directions in other peripheral regions. Together these offer timely redefinitions and reconceptualisations of central notions like civil society, diplomacy, foreign policy, peacekeeping, security, and self-reliance for political economies and cultures throughout the South.

Author : Timothy M. Shaw,Julius Emeka Okolo
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0312106467

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The Political Economy of Foreign Policy in ECOWAS by Timothy M. Shaw,Julius Emeka Okolo Pdf

Together these offer timely redefinitions and reconceptualisations of central notions like civil society, diplomacy, foreign policy, peacekeeping, security, and self-reliance for political economies and cultures throughout the South.

Author : Jason Warner,Timothy M. Shaw
Publisher : Springer
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 55,5 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 : Timothy M. Shaw,Olajide Aluko
Publisher : Springer
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1983-06-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781349063017

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Nigerian Foreign Policy by Timothy M. Shaw,Olajide Aluko Pdf

Author : Stephen Wright
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429971075

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African Foreign Policies by Stephen Wright Pdf

This volume of thirteen original essays provides a timely analysis of African foreign policies in a post–Cold War environment where African marginalization from the global economy appears to be increasing. Three thematic essays give an overview of critical changes occurring in African foreign policies, and ten country-by-country case studies provide specific analyses of decisionmaking, intraregional relations, and the struggles over policy with external agencies, including the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. African Foreign Policies offers explanations for how African states are adapting to the international challenges of the late twentieth century.

Author : David J Francis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351807685

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The Politics of Economic Regionalism by David J Francis Pdf

This title was first published in 2001: The primary objective of this book is to provide an analytical understanding of the nature, dynamics and complexity of the politics of economic regionalism through the prism of Sierra Leone in the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). The book also discusses the following issues: the evolution of economic regionalism in West Africa and the conceptual framework for analysis; the expansion of the economic regionalism; developments within the West Africa sub-region with that of the transformation of the global economy and international political system; political, economic and security developments within ECOWAS; and the civil war in Sierra Leone.

Author : Gilbert M. Khadiagala,Terrence Lyons
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1555879667

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African Foreign Policies by Gilbert M. Khadiagala,Terrence Lyons Pdf

This treatment of the relationship between domestic and international politics analyzes efforts by African states to manage their external relations amid shifts in the internal, regional, and global environments. The study traverses the continent, identifying patterns of change, examining constraints, and giving attention to the processes that influence policy outcomes. Contributors include scholars of political science, international relations, African studies, and conflict analysis. c. Book News Inc.

Author : S. K. B. Asante
Publisher : New York : Praeger
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105037937278

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The Political Economy of Regionalism in Africa by S. K. B. Asante Pdf

Author : Mark Webber,Michael Smith
Publisher : Pearson Education
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0139087575

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Foreign Policy in a Transformed World by Mark Webber,Michael Smith Pdf

Foreign Policy in a Transformed World provides an in-depth introduction to foreign policy analysis, looking at the role of foreign policy within contemporary international politics. The overall theme of the text is the study of foreign policy in relation to change and transformation, providing conceptual frameworks and applications for use in a variety of learning contexts and situating the study of foreign policy within the broader development of world politics and the world political economy: * introduces the main frameworks for the analysis of foreign policy, linking these to the study and development of world politics generally * applies the frameworks to contemporary foreign policies, providing not only a test of the frameworks themselves but also the basis for comparative work by students * takes into account the distinctive nature of world politics in the post Cold War era, whilst providing an introduction to traditional themes in the study of foreign policy * gives a consistent structure to the case studies examined, whilst allowing for the treatment of distinctive features and trends in each of the case studies * provides the basis for active learning by students, through the provision of guides to further reading and resources, and appropriate questions for discussion and investigation Dr Mark Webber is Senior Lecturer in Politics at Loughborough University.Professor Michael Smith is Jean Monnet Professor of European Politics at Loughborough University.

Author : Emmanuel Balogun
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429791840

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Region-Building in West Africa by Emmanuel Balogun Pdf

This book examines the role of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) practitioners in coordinating, creating, and managing regional governance practices in the areas of public health, peace and security, and microfinancial integration. Since 1975, there have been many failed and successful attempts at unconstitutional government changes in West Africa. During this same period, numerous instruments have been designed to promote peace and security in the region. This book examines the role of bureaucratic actors in the ECOWAS in harmonizing regional integration policy in West Africa. Using data from fieldwork in several countries in West Africa, Balogun observes how ECOWAS practitioners network and strategically engage regional stakeholders in health, peace and security, and finance as a means to deepen harmonization between ECOWAS Member States and build a connection with civil society. Balogun argues that the founding conditions of ECOWAS set the organization on an institutional path to adapt its approaches to regional governance. Region-Building in West Africa challenges the idea that self-interested leaders limit regional cooperation. The book also challenges the idea that the bureaucrats in the organization are glorified servants to their governments. Region-Building in West Africa instead focuses on the influence that bureaucrats have in shaping the international policy agenda of ECOWAS. This book will be useful to scholars, students, and practitioners in Africa and beyond who want to better understand the inner workings of African regional organizations, and the processes that drive cooperation across West Africa.

Author : Timothy M. Shaw
Publisher : Halifax, N.S. : Centre for Foreign Policy Studies, Dalhousie University
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105081580800

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Africa's International Affairs by Timothy M. Shaw Pdf

Author : Paul-Henri Bischoff
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000048377

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African Foreign Policies by Paul-Henri Bischoff Pdf

This book explores, at a time when several powers have become serious players on the continent, aspects of African agency, past and present, by African writers on foreign policy, representative of geography, language and state size. In the past, African foreign policy has largely been considered within the context of reactions to the international or global “external factor”. This groundbreaking book, however, looks at how foreign policy has been crafted and used in response not just to external, but also, mainly, domestic imperatives or (theoretical) signifiers. As such, it narrates individual and changing foreign policy orientations over time—and as far back as independence—with mainly African-based scholars who present their own constructs of what is a useful theoretical narrative regarding foreign policy on the continent—how theory is adapted to local circumstance or substituted for continentally based ontologies. The book therefore contends that the African experience carries valuable import for expanding general understandings of foreign policy in general. This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of Foreign Policy Analysis, Foreign Policy Studies, African International Relations/Politics/Studies, Diplomacy and more broadly to International Relations.

Author : M. Leann Brown
Publisher : Springer
Page : 107 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319705330

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Regional Economic Organizations and Conventional Security Challenges by M. Leann Brown Pdf

Within the context of regional integration, comparative regionalism, organizational change, and regional security literatures, this book investigates three cases wherein regional economic organizations were confronted with conventional security threats: the 1978-91 Association of Southeast Asian Nations-Vietnam Standoff, the 1990 Economic Community of West Africa-Liberian Civil War Challenge, and the 1990-91 European Communities-Balkans Crisis. While the literature suggests multiple possible explanations for regional economic organizations’ response to these security challenges, including systemic and power-related factors, organizational factors and functional needs, and cognitive and social factors, the author argues that the decision to transform a regional economic organization into a conventional security actor is most influenced by decision makers’ perceptions of threat and functional necessity.

Author : Steve Egbo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Nigeria
ISBN : UOM:39015061445063

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Nigeria and the World by Steve Egbo Pdf

Author : Arie M. Kacowicz
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1998-09-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0791439585

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Zones of Peace in the Third World by Arie M. Kacowicz Pdf

Provides a critique and an extention of the "democratic peace" theory by focusing on the regional level and by offering alternative explanations for the maintenance of democratic and non-democratic "zones of peace."