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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.
This landmark book is the first of its kind to assess the
challenges of African region-building and regional integration
across all five African sub-regions and more than five decades of
experience, considering both political and economic aspects.
Leading scholars and practitioners come together to analyze a range
of entwined topics, including: the theoretical underpinnings that
have informed Africa's regional integration trajectory; the
political economy of integration, including the sources of
different 'waves' of integration in pan-Africanism and the reaction
to neo-liberal economic pressures; the complexities of integration
in a context of weak states and the informal regionalization that
often occurs in 'borderlands'; the increasing salience of Africa's
relationships with rising extra-regional economic powers, including
China and India; and comparative lessons from non-African regional
blocs, including the EU, ASEAN, and the Southern Common Market. A
core argument of this book, running through all chapters, is that
region-building must be recognized as a political project as much
as if not more than an economic one; successful region-building in
Africa will need to include the complex political tasks of
strengthening state capacity (including states' capacity as
'developmental states' that can actively engage in economic
planning), resolving long-standing conflicts over resources and
political dominance, improving democratic governance, and
developing trans-national political structures that are legitimate
and inclusive.
This landmark book is the first of its kind to assess the
challenges of African region-building and regional integration
across all five African sub-regions and more than five decades of
experience, considering both political and economic aspects.
Leading scholars and practitioners come together to analyze a range
of entwined topics, including: the theoretical underpinnings that
have informed Africa's regional integration trajectory; the
political economy of integration, including the sources of
different 'waves' of integration in pan-Africanism and the reaction
to neo-liberal economic pressures; the complexities of integration
in a context of weak states and the informal regionalization that
often occurs in 'borderlands'; the increasing salience of Africa's
relationships with rising extra-regional economic powers, including
China and India; and comparative lessons from non-African regional
blocs, including the EU, ASEAN, and the Southern Common Market. A
core argument of this book, running through all chapters, is that
region-building must be recognized as a political project as much
as if not more than an economic one; successful region-building in
Africa will need to include the complex political tasks of
strengthening state capacity (including states' capacity as
'developmental states' that can actively engage in economic
planning), resolving long-standing conflicts over resources and
political dominance, improving democratic governance, and
developing trans-national political structures that are legitimate
and inclusive.
This book concerns the United Nations' peacemaking, peacekeeping,
peace-building, and post-conflict reconstruction efforts in Africa
from 1960 to 2021. Succinctly discussed are historic and
contemporary peace, security, and economic engagements within 18
countries spanning eight African regions: the Great Lakes; the
Economic Community of Central African States; East Africa; the Horn
of Africa; North Africa; the Sahel Region; West Africa; and
Southern Africa. The book develops a neo-realist and imperialist
critique that discusses how resource-rich, conflict-ridden states
have become easy targets for capitalists, terrorists, and
transnational crime, aligned to geostrategic parochial interests.
Critically argued is that endogenous economic growth factors, if
applied effectively, can achieve both peace and security, and meet
the Global Sustainable Development Goals. Such efforts require
constructive engagement with the five permanent members of the UN
Security Council: China, France, Russia, the UK, and the US.
However, the book contends that the cornerstone of multilateral
engagement involves Africa's 55 states and the African Union's
three major pillars: the Peace and Security Council, the African
Governance Architecture, and the Post-Conflict Reconstruction
Development Centre, which have the ability to move resource-rich,
conflict-ridden states out of transnational crime and poverty. This
book offers wide-ranging analyses of contemporary African diplomacy
and a compelling critique of UN peacekeeping efforts in Africa,
which resonates to scholars of international relations, peace and
conflict studies, and African politics.
This book concerns the United Nations' peacemaking, peacekeeping,
peace-building, and post-conflict reconstruction efforts in Africa
from 1960 to 2021. Succinctly discussed are historic and
contemporary peace, security, and economic engagements within 18
countries spanning eight African regions: the Great Lakes; the
Economic Community of Central African States; East Africa; the Horn
of Africa; North Africa; the Sahel Region; West Africa; and
Southern Africa. The book develops a neo-realist and imperialist
critique that discusses how resource-rich, conflict-ridden states
have become easy targets for capitalists, terrorists, and
transnational crime, aligned to geostrategic parochial interests.
Critically argued is that endogenous economic growth factors, if
applied effectively, can achieve both peace and security, and meet
the Global Sustainable Development Goals. Such efforts require
constructive engagement with the five permanent members of the UN
Security Council: China, France, Russia, the UK, and the US.
However, the book contends that the cornerstone of multilateral
engagement involves Africa's 55 states and the African Union's
three major pillars: the Peace and Security Council, the African
Governance Architecture, and the Post-Conflict Reconstruction
Development Centre, which have the ability to move resource-rich,
conflict-ridden states out of transnational crime and poverty. This
book offers wide-ranging analyses of contemporary African diplomacy
and a compelling critique of UN peacekeeping efforts in Africa,
which resonates to scholars of international relations, peace and
conflict studies, and African politics.
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.
Offering an examination of the diplomatic and economic regional
power structures in Africa and their relationships with each other,
Dawn Nagar discusses the potential and future of pan-Africanism.
The three primary regional economic communities (RECs) that are
recognised by the African Union as the key building blocks of a
united Africa are examined - these are the Common Market for
Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), the East African Community
(EAC) and the Southern African Development Community (SADC). These
RECS include Africa's major economies - Egypt, South Africa, and
Kenya but are also home to Africa's most conflict prone and
volatile states - the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC),
Burundi, South Sudan, Somalia and Lesotho. Providing a detailed
overview of the current relationship between these power blocs,
this book provides insight into the current state of diplomatic and
economic relations within Africa and shows how far there is to go
for a future of Pan-Africanism.
Offering an examination of the diplomatic and economic regional
power structures in Africa and their relationships with each other,
Dawn Nagar discusses the potential and future of pan-Africanism.
The three primary regional economic communities (RECs) that are
recognised by the African Union as the key building blocks of a
united Africa are examined - these are the Common Market for
Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), the East African Community
(EAC) and the Southern African Development Community (SADC). These
RECS include Africa’s major economies – Egypt, South Africa,
and Kenya but are also home to Africa’s most conflict prone and
volatile states – the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC),
Burundi, South Sudan, Somalia and Lesotho. Providing a detailed
overview of the current relationship between these power blocs,
this book provides insight into the current state of diplomatic and
economic relations within Africa and shows how far there is to go
for a future of Pan-Africanism.
Peacebuilding in Africa: The Post-Conflict State and Its
Multidimensional Crises argues that building enduring peace in
post-conflict states in Africa requires comprehensive,
state-specific approaches that address the multidimensional crises
that generated civil conflict and instabilities in these countries.
Contributors examine states such as Burundi, the Democratic
Republic of the Congo, Liberia, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Sudan,
and Sudan to demonstrate that peacebuilding projects in each of
these states must address the cultural, economic, political, and
social root causes of their respective underlying civil conflicts.
In addition, contributors prove that peacebuilding projects must be
shaped by the centrality of human security: the respect for
ethno-cultural diversity, the advancement of human material
well-being, the protection of political rights and civil liberties,
and the redesigning of the military and security architecture to
ensure the safety of all citizens from both internal and external
threats.
How successful have Southern African states been in dealing with
the major issues that have faced the region in recent years? What
could be done to produce more cohesive and effective
region-building in Southern Africa? In this original and
wide-ranging volume, which draws on an interdisciplinary team of
mainly African and African-based specialists, the key political,
socio-economic, and security challenges facing Southern Africa
today are addressed. These include the various issues confronting
the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and its
institutions; such as HIV/AIDS, migration and xenophobia,
land-grabbing and climate change; and the role of the main external
actors involved with the region, including the United Nations, the
European Union, the United States, and China. The book also looks
at the Southern African Customs Union and Southern African
Development Finance Institutions, including the Development Bank of
Southern Africa and Industrial Development Corporation, and issues
of gender and peacebuilding. In doing so, the book goes to the
heart of analyzing the effectiveness of SADC and other regional
organisation, suggesting how region-building in Southern Africa may
be compared with similar attempts elsewhere in Africa and other
parts of the world.
How successful have Southern African states been in dealing with
the major issues that have faced the region in recent years? What
could be done to produce more cohesive and effective
region-building in Southern Africa? In this original and
wide-ranging volume, which draws on an interdisciplinary team of
mainly African and African-based specialists, the key political,
socio-economic, and security challenges facing Southern Africa
today are addressed. These include the various issues confronting
the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and its
institutions; such as HIV/AIDS, migration and xenophobia,
land-grabbing and climate change; and the role of the main external
actors involved with the region, including the United Nations, the
European Union, the United States, and China. The book also looks
at the Southern African Customs Union and Southern African
Development Finance Institutions, including the Development Bank of
Southern Africa and Industrial Development Corporation, and issues
of gender and peacebuilding. In doing so, the book goes to the
heart of analyzing the effectiveness of SADC and other regional
organisation, suggesting how region-building in Southern Africa may
be compared with similar attempts elsewhere in Africa and other
parts of the world.
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