Readings in the international relations of Africa / edited by Tom Young.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Young, Tom, editor.

Series:

Readings in African studies.

Readings in African Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Africa--Foreign relations.

Africa.

Africa--Politics and government--21st century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (385 p.)

Place of Publication:

Bloomington, Indiana ; Indianapolis, Indiana : Indiana University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

These readings in international relations in Africa grapple with the continent's changing place in the world. The essays confront issues such as the increasing tempo of armed conflict, the tendency of Western states and agencies to intervene in African settings, the presence of China, and the health of African states and their ability to participate in the global economy. Questions regarding sovereignty, leading regional actors, conflict and resolution, and the neoliberal African renaissance add to the broad thematic coverage presented in this timely volume.

Contents:

Introduction / Tom Young

Part I. Sovereignty and statehood

Independence by right / Robert H. Jackson

Regimes of sovereignty: international morality and the African condition / Siba N. Grovogui

The rise of the state system in Africa / Carolyn M. Warner

Part II. Africa and the international order

Policy autonomy and the history of British aid to Africa / Tony Killick

"Development is very political in Tanzania": Oxfam and the Chunya Integrated Development Programme 1972-76 / Michael Jennings

Evolution of the United Nations anti-apartheid regime / Newell M. Stultz

What next? Selective genocide in Burundi / Rene Lemarchand

Part III. New states and the continental order

The scramble for Africa: inherited political boundaries / Ieuan Griffiths

The OAU interventions in Chad: mission impossible or mission evaded? / Roy May and Simon Massey

Part IV. Africa and the great powers

French African policy in historical perspective / Tony Chafer

Propaganda and politics / John Stockwell

"Flee! The white giants are coming!" The United States, the mercenaries and the Congo 1964-65 / Piero Gleijeses

The prospects of socialism: Ethiopia and the Horn Odd / Arne Westad

Part V. Conflict, war, and intervention

Rebel movements and proxy warfare: Uganda, Sudan and the Congo (1986-99) / Gerard Prunier

The United Nations in Africa: the rise of peacekeeping and the case of Somalia / Richard K. Al-Qaq

The liberal peace is neither: peacebuilding, state building and the reproduction of conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo / Stein Sundstol Eriksen

Part VI. Globalization and a new world order?

"A project to be realized": global liberalism and contemporary Africa / Tom Young

Values, context and hybridity: how can the insights from the liberal peace critique literature be brought to bear on the practices of the UN peacebuilding architecture? / Eli Stamnes

Is the EU's governance "good?": an assessment of EU governance in its partnership with ACP states / Nikki Slocum-Bradley and Andrew Bradley

Female circumcision as female genital mutilation: human rights or cultural imperialism? / Abdulmumini A. Oba

Politics, anti-politics, international justice: language and power in the special court for Sierra Leone / Tim Kelsall

Part VII. African renaissance? The African Union and NEPAD

Explaining the clash and accommodation of interests of major actors in the creation of the African Union / Thomas Kwasi Tieku

"Partnership" through accommodation? African development initiatives and universal policy prescriptions / Ian Taylor

The power of partnerships in global governance / Rita Abrahamsen

Part VIII. The return of geopolitics

China, India, Russia and the United States: the scramble for African oil and the militarization of the continent / Daniel Volman

Towards a critical geopolitics of China's engagement with African development / Marcus Power and Giles Mohan

A new phase in the war on terror: the implications of proxy intelligence and western complicity with state terrorist agencies / Jeremy Keenan.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780253018946

0253018943

OCLC:

935112940