The Governance, Security and Development Nexus: Africa Rising

ISBN-13: 9783030493509 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 428 str.

Omeje, Kenneth

Recenzje

"The volume is ambitious in its attempt to cover the governance, security, and development nexus in breadth and depth. ... the volume does offer interesting insights into the governance and development nexus. ... the collective volume offers an interesting and compelling survey that will be a valuable contribution to the Africa rising debate." (Emmanuel Balogun, Yearbook on the African Union, Vol. 2, 2021)

Spis treści

Introduction..- Chapter 1. Africa Rising? Exploring the Governance, Security and Development Nexus.- Chapter 2. Africa Rising: Looking Back to African Antecedents to Look Ahead Re-Imagining Africa.- Chapter 3. Interrogating the Political Economy of Africa Rising: Who are the “African Tigers”?.- Chapter 4. Africa - EU Relations and the Politics of International Development.- Chapter 5. Africa - US Relations: The Politics of Trade, Investment and Security.- Chapter 6. The Political Economy of Africa’s Relations with China.- Chapter 7. Foreign Direct Investments and Africa Rising: A Critical Assessment.- Chapter 8. Regional Trade and Security Cooperation in Africa: A Study of ECOWAS.- Chapter 9. Trade and Security Cooperation in the SADC Region.- Chapter 10. Managing Regional Trade and Security in the Maghreb Union after the Arab Spring.- Chapter 11. The African Union and Politics of Regional Integration..- Chapter 12. Placing Ethiopia’s Economic Growth in the Context of the Africa Rising Debate.- Chapter 13. Negotiating the Tension between Democracy and Development.- Chapter 14: Assessing the Implications of Security – Development Nexus on State.- Conclusion.

O autorze

Kenneth Omeje is Director, Manifold Crown Research and Training Consult in Bradford, UK; Visiting Professor of Peace and Security Studies at Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia; and Visiting Professorial Fellow at the Nigerian Defence Academy in Kaduna. 

Blurb

This book is a contemporary and sophisticated engagement with the “Africa rising” debate and politics. With 19 carefully curated chapters, this is a theoretically sound and empirically informed project, a compendium for anyone interested in fine-grain scholarly analyses of governance, security and development in Africa.

–Temitope Oriola , Joint Editor-in-Chief of African Security, President of the Canadian Association of African Studies (CAAS) and Associate Professor, University of Alberta, Canada.

 In a moment of political and economic uncertainty throughout the continent, this volume charts out new paths, grounded in interdisciplinary research and rigorous evidence, to futures beyond sanguine declarations of 'Africa Rising' and their celebration of a failed neo-liberal model.

–Adam Branch, Director, Centre of African Studies, University of Cambridge.

This is a comprehensive, timely, and serious interrogation of Africa rising discourses from a multidisciplinary perspective.  Africa cannot rise if the multi-layered challenges and opportunities of security, governance, and development are not fully grasped.  This anthology is, therefore, a rigorous and empirically grounded contribution to the debate and understanding of Africa’s contemporary condition and prospects.  It is an uncompromising call to jettison destructive economic and governance models and to adopt frameworks that are sustainable, accountable, and truly transformative.

–Professor Ismail Rashid, Department of History, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York

This edited book analyses the changing links between governance, security and development in Africa as they relate to the narrative that contemporary Africa has made remarkable progress in recent years, a phenomenon popularly known as “Africa rising.” The book presents a rigorous evaluation of the Africa rising debate and consequently offers innovative policy guidelines for Africa’s governance and development transformation.

Kenneth Omeje is Director, Manifold Crown Research and Training Consult in Bradford, UK; Visiting Professor of Peace and Security Studies at Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia; and Visiting Professorial Fellow at the Nigerian Defence Academy in Kaduna.