Africa and the World: Bilateral and Multilateral International Diplomacy

ISBN-13: 9783319873497 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 520 str.

Nagar, Dawn

Opis

This book probes key issues pertaining to Africa's relations with global actors. It provides a comprehensive trajectory of Africa's relations with key bilateral and major multilateral actors, assessing how the Cold War affected the African state systems' political policies, its economies, and its security. Taken together, the essays in this volume provide a collective understanding of Africa's drive to improve the capacity of its state of global affairs, and assess whether it is in fact able to do so.

Recenzje

"An edited compilation of thoughts and perspectives on Africa's multifaceted interactions with the rest of the world. ... Africa and the World: Bilateral and Multilateral International Diplomacy offers credible insights into Africa's external engagements in a unique and novel way." (Oluwole Olutola, African Studies Review, Vol. 63 (1), 2020)
"Africa and the World is informative and easy to read. It offers scholars and students significant insights into the policy and strategy frameworks that inform Africa's engagements with the world, and the push and pull factors that underpin Africa's bilateral and multilateral relations." (Sanusha Naidu, South African Journal of International Affairs, February, 2019)

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Inspirations and Hesitations in Africa’s Relations with External Actors

 Charles Mutasa

Part I: Bilateral Relations: Traditional Powers 

2. Africa and the United Stater: A History of Malign Neglect 

 Adekeye Adebajo

3. Africa and Russia: The Pursuit of Strengthened Relations in the Post-Cold War Era

Rosaline Daniel and Vladimir Shubin

4. Africa and China: Winding Into A Community Of Common Destiny

Liu Haifang

5. France and Africa

Douglas A. Yates

6. To Brexit and Beyond: Africa and the United Kingdom

 Alex Vines 

7. Africa and Portugal

Clara Carvalho

 

Part II: Bilateral Relations: Non-Traditional Power

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8. Africa and Italy’s Relations After the Cold War 

Bernardo Venturi

9. Brazil-Africa Relations: From Boom to Bust?

Adriana Erthal Abdenur

10. A Renewed Partnership? Contemporary Latin America-Africa Engagement

Danilo Marcondes

11. Africa and India: Riding the Tail of the Tiger?

Kudrat Virk

12. Africa-Japan Relations in the Post-Cold War Era

Scarlett Cornelissen and Yoichi Mine

13. Africa and the Nordics 

Anne Hammerstad

14. Africa, the Islamic World, and Europe

Roel van der Veen 

Part III: Multilateral Relations 

   

15. Africa and the Middle East: Shifting Alliances and Strategic Pa

rtnerships

Hamdy A. Hassan and Hala Thabet

16. Africa at the United Nations: From Dominance to Weakness  

James O.C. Jonah

17. Africa and the International Criminal Court

Dan Kuwali

18. Can the BRICS Re-Open the “Gateway to Africa”? South Africa’s Contradictory Facilitation of Divergent Brazilian, Russian, Indian and Chinese Interests 

Patrick Bond

19. Europe-Africa Relations in the Era of Uncertainty

Gilbert M. Khadiagala

20. Africa and the World Trade Organisation

Mariama Williams

21. Sub-Saharan Africa: the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund

L. Adele Jinadu

22. Conclusion

Dawn Nagar

O autorze

Dawn Nagar is Senior Researcher at the Centre for Conflict Resolution (CCR), Cape Town, South Africa.

Charles Mutasa is an independent development policy consultant. He served as Deputy Presiding Officer of the first African Union-Civil Society Organisations (CSO) Bureau, and as vice-president of the African Union Economic Social and Cultural Council (ECOSOCC) between 2005 and 2008. He was the former Executive Director of the African Forum and Network on Debt and Development (AFRODAD). 

Blurb

This book probes key issues pertaining to Africa’s relations with global actors. It provides a comprehensive trajectory of Africa’s relations with key bilateral and major multilateral actors, assessing how the Cold War affected the African state systems’ political policies, its economies, and its security. Taken together, the essays in this volume provide a collective understanding of Africa’s drive to improve the capacity of its state of global affairs, and assess whether it is in fact able to do so. 

Dawn Nagar is Senior Researcher at the Centre for Conflict Resolution (CCR), Cape Town, South Africa.

Charles Mutasa is an independent development policy consultant. He served as Deputy Presiding Officer of the first African Union-Civil Society Organisations (CSO) Bureau, and as vice-president of the African Union Economic Social and Cultural Council (ECOSOCC) between 2005 and 2008. He was the former Executive Director of

the African Forum and Network on Debt and Development (AFRODAD).