Connecting Africa and Asia: Afrasia as a Benign Community

ISBN-13: 9781032134536 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 156 str.

Yoichi Mine

Opis

By 2100, more than 80 per cent of the world’s population is expected to live in Afrasia (Africa and Asia). This book draws lessons from history, provides a new cognitive map of the world, and discusses multiple challenges global citizens will face in the age of Afrasia, an emerging macro-region.

Spis treści

Introduction, Part I: World Maps in 2100, Chapter 1: Population Change towards the 22^nd Century, Chapter 2: A Soft Landing into a Stationary State, Chapter 3: New Economic Spheres and Migration in Afrasia, Part II: The Last Shall Be First, Chapter 4: Eurasian Connectivity, Chapter 5: Frontiers on the Continent and the Ocean, Chapter 6: Two Scenarios, Part III The Age of Afrasia, Chapter 7: The Genesis of Pan-Regionalism, Chapter 8: Religions in Afrasia, Chapter 9: Communication in the South, Conclusion Imagining a Benign Community

O autorze

Yoichi Mine is Professor at the Graduate School of Global Studies, Doshisha University, Japan, and Visiting Fellow at JICA Ogata Sadako Research Institute for Peace and Development. His research interests include human security, global history, and African studies. His English publications include several co-edited volumes: Migration and Agency: Afro-Asian Encounters (Palgrave), Preventing Violent Conflict in Africa: Inequalities, Perceptions and Institutions (Palgrave), Human Security Norms in East Asia (Palgrave), and Human Security and Cross-Border Cooperation in East Asia (Palgrave). He is among the founders of the Japan Association for Human Security Studies and the Japan Society for Afrasian Studies.