A strategic vision for Africa : the Kampala movement / Francis M. Deng, I. William Zartman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Deng, Francis Mading, 1938-

Contributor:

Zartman, I. William.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Conference on Security, Stability, Development, and Cooperation in Africa.

National security--Africa.

National security.

Africa.

Africa--Foreign relations--1960-.

International relations.

Sustainable development--Africa.

Sustainable development.

Physical Description:

xvii, 198 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, [2002]

Summary:

As the cold war ended, Africa was a major battlefield in the ideological war between the United States and the Soviet Union. However, changing priorities in the United States and the dissolution of the USSR pushed Africa out of the spotlight and into obscurity. As globalization, development, and regional cooperation advanced in much of the world, Africa lingered in provincialism, poverty, and war. It received the attention of the world only when it was unavoidable, as in the Somali state collapse and Rwandan genocide in 1992 and 1994.

This book chronicles the efforts, made manifest in the Kampala Principles, of a determined group working to solve Africa's complex problems. In 1989 Olusegun Obasanjo, then Nigerian head of state and now the democratically elected president, organized the first of many forums that resulted in the Kampala Principles, a document providing a framework for workable political and economic development in Africa. Taking the Helsinki Document of 1975 as their model, participants in the several forums settled on seven key tenets geared toward the adoption of a new and comprehensive politico-economic regime on the continent. They also created a longer declaration of norms and principles.

Francis M. Deng and I. William Zartman, both noted authorities in African studies, examine and evaluate the acceptance of the Kampala Principles. They believe that the Kampala movement is "on the cusp of success or exhaustion," and they now appraise the movement's progress and future in relation to other regional efforts. The preface from President Obasanjo offers a unique perspective on both the development of the Kampala Principles and the current state of politico-economic development in Africa. This book is indispensable for students of political and economic development and for those concerned with the future of a troubled and hopeful continent.

Contents:

Introduction

The African context

Regimes in other regions

An evolving framework

Beacons and benchmarks

Appendix: Specific principles of the Kampala document.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 170-187) and index.

ISBN:

0815702647

0815702655

OCLC:

47741907

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