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The world's fastest growing continent demographically, Africa
displays nearly all the features of today's global security
challenges: armed conflict, terrorism, irregular migration,
organized crime, great power competition, public discontent, and
economic turbulence. John Siko and Jonah Victor present their
lessons from professional practice and pedagogical approach from
the classroom in a concise guidebook that leads students and
professionals through the most important issues, dynamics,
challenges, and considerations for analysing and planning responses
to security developments in Africa. This book provides
issue-by-issue primers on the causes and consequences of Africa's
security challenges that include: -how to anticipate security
problems across current political and economic events -how to
analyse African security institutions and military capabilities
-how to understand historical trends across the African continent
and appreciate unique variations among countries. -how to identify
key drivers of future trends -how to connect security analysis to
policy planning Learning is supported through the following
features: - Thematic chapters which are optimized to help the
reader quickly connect to the key concepts and analytic frameworks
within the field. - The most relevant historical case studies,
enabling students to engage in sophisticated analysis and
discussion. - Connections and contrasts between the situations in
North Africa and sub-Saharan Africa, which are traditionally
studied separately. - Special sections on understanding race and
ethnicity, and advice on traveling in Africa. - Chapter-end
checklists of key questions to enable practical engagement with the
topics covered.
South Africa is still the major-player in African diplomacy, its
military resources far outstripping those of other nations on the
continent. It also has traditionally taken the lead role in
Africa's united negotiations with other power blocs. Yet the recent
consensus has been that South Africa's diplomacy over the last
decades has been a disappointing failure-from appearing to back the
controversial Mugabe regime to accusations that it is failing to
utilize its position to encourage Chinese investment. John Siko has
had insider access to the corridors of power in South Africa, and,
with access to the major political players, charts the inability of
South Africa to develop a coherent policy over the last four
decades. In particular, he reveals the tight grip Mbeki has over
foreign policy, to the detriment of SA's standing in the world, and
argues South Africa's isolationist style of policy making has not
changed enough after Mandela's election in 1994.
South Africa is a major player in African diplomacy. Its economic,
diplomatic and military resources far outstrip those of other
nations on the continent, and it has, since the country's 1994
democratic transition, sought to take a lead role in the
continent's relations with other power blocs, particularly during
the 1999-2008 presidency of Thabo Mbeki. While Mbeki's push for
greater African engagement in the global political sphere drew
widespread praise, other positions-notably its seeming inaction
toward Zimbabwe and perceived abandonment of its stated emphasis on
human rights in foreignpolicy-were more controversial, both at home
and abroad. John Siko has had insider access to South Africa's
leading foreign policy players, and has been able to ask why
Pretoria has taken its various stances and who has mattered in
influencing those decisions, a topic little examined since 1994. In
addition, he examines the foreign policy process over the past
century, determining that despite ANC promises of greater
democratic engagement on foreign policy, the process has changed
quite little.
The world's fastest growing continent demographically, Africa
displays nearly all the features of today's global security
challenges: armed conflict, terrorism, irregular migration,
organized crime, great power competition, public discontent, and
economic turbulence. John Siko and Jonah Victor present their
lessons from professional practice and pedagogical approach from
the classroom in a concise guidebook that leads students and
professionals through the most important issues, dynamics,
challenges, and considerations for analysing and planning responses
to security developments in Africa. This book provides
issue-by-issue primers on the causes and consequences of Africa's
security challenges that include: -how to anticipate security
problems across current political and economic events -how to
analyse African security institutions and military capabilities
-how to understand historical trends across the African continent
and appreciate unique variations among countries. -how to identify
key drivers of future trends -how to connect security analysis to
policy planning Learning is supported through the following
features: - Thematic chapters which are optimized to help the
reader quickly connect to the key concepts and analytic frameworks
within the field. - The most relevant historical case studies,
enabling students to engage in sophisticated analysis and
discussion. - Connections and contrasts between the situations in
North Africa and sub-Saharan Africa, which are traditionally
studied separately. - Special sections on understanding race and
ethnicity, and advice on traveling in Africa. - Chapter-end
checklists of key questions to enable practical engagement with the
topics covered.
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