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Over forty years after the formal end of colonialism, suffocating
ties to Western financial systems continue to prevent African
countries from achieving any meaningful monetary sovereignty.
Economic and Monetary Sovereignty in 21st Century Africa traces the
recent history of African monetary and financial dependencies,
looking at the ways African nations are resisting colonial
legacies. Using a comparative, multi-disciplinary approach, this
book uncovers what went wrong after the Pan-African approaches that
defined the early stages of independence, and how most African
economies fell into the firm grip of the IMF, World Bank, and the
EU's strict neoliberal policies. This collection is the first to
offer a wide-ranging, comparative and historical look at how
African societies have attempted to increase their policy influence
and move beyond neoliberal orthodoxy and US-dollar dependency.
Economic and Monetary Sovereignty in 21st Century Africa is
essential reading for anyone interested in the African quest for
self-determination in a turbulent world of recurring economic and
financial crisis.
Over forty years after the formal end of colonialism, suffocating
ties to Western financial systems continue to prevent African
countries from achieving any meaningful monetary sovereignty.
Economic and Monetary Sovereignty in 21st Century Africa traces the
recent history of African monetary and financial dependencies,
looking at the ways African nations are resisting colonial
legacies. Using a comparative, multi-disciplinary approach, this
book uncovers what went wrong after the Pan-African approaches that
defined the early stages of independence, and how most African
economies fell into the firm grip of the IMF, World Bank, and the
EU's strict neoliberal policies. This collection is the first to
offer a wide-ranging, comparative and historical look at how
African societies have attempted to increase their policy influence
and move beyond neoliberal orthodoxy and US-dollar dependency.
Economic and Monetary Sovereignty in 21st Century Africa is
essential reading for anyone interested in the African quest for
self-determination in a turbulent world of recurring economic and
financial crisis.
Bridges the debates between IPE, CPE, International Relations and
financial studies. Provides a methodology to study the
interconnectedness of actors and practices in global financialized
capitalism. Case studies ranging from banking, to payments systems,
index providers and investor-state arbitration offer
state-of-the-art insights on some of the most important new actors
and practices in global finance.
Humanitarianism as a moral concept and an organized practice has
become a major factor in world society. It channels an enormous
amount of resources and serves as an argument for different kinds
of interference into the "internal affairs" of countries and
regions. At the same time, and for these very reasons, it is an
ideal testing ground for successful and unsuccessful cooperation
across borders. Humanitarianism and the Challenges of Cooperation
examines the multiple humanitarianisms of today as a testing ground
for new ways of global cooperation. General trends in the
contemporary transformation of humanitarianism are studied and
individual cases of how humanitarian actors cooperate with others
on the ground are investigated. This book offers a highly
innovative, empirically informed account of global humanitarianism
from the point of view of cooperation research in which
internationally renowned contributors analyse broad trends and
present case studies based on meticulous fieldwork. This book will
be of great interest to students and researchers in the areas of
political science, international relations and humanitarianism. It
is also a valuable resource for humanitarian aid workers.
This book examines the practices in Western and local spheres of
humanitarian intervention, and shows how the divide between these
spheres helps to perpetuate Western involvement. Using the
Democratic Republic of the Congo as a case study - an object of
Western intervention since colonial times - this book scrutinizes
the contemporary practice of humanitarian intervention from the
inside. It seeks to expose how humanitarian aid and peacekeeping
works, what obstacles they encounter and how they manage to retain
their legitimacy. By examining the relationship between the West
and the DR Congo, this volume asks why intervention continues to be
so central for the relationship between Western and local spheres.
Why is it normal and self-evident? The main answer developed here
is that the separation of these two spheres allows intervention to
enjoy sufficient degrees of legitimacy to be sustained. Owing to
the contradictions that surface when juxtaposing the Western and
Congolese spheres, this book highlights how keeping them separate
is key to sustaining intervention. Bridging the divide between the
liberal peace debate in International Relations and anthropologies
of humanitarianism, this volume thus presents an important
contribution to taking both the legitimizing proclamations and
'local' realities of intervention seriously. The book will be of
much interest to students of statebuilding, peacebuilding,
peacekeeping, anthropology, research methods and IR in general.
This book examines the practices in Western and local spheres of
humanitarian intervention, and shows how the divide between these
spheres helps to perpetuate Western involvement. Using the
Democratic Republic of the Congo as a case study - an object of
Western intervention since colonial times - this book scrutinizes
the contemporary practice of humanitarian intervention from the
inside. It seeks to expose how humanitarian aid and peacekeeping
works, what obstacles they encounter and how they manage to retain
their legitimacy. By examining the relationship between the West
and the DR Congo, this volume asks why intervention continues to be
so central for the relationship between Western and local spheres.
Why is it normal and self-evident? The main answer developed here
is that the separation of these two spheres allows intervention to
enjoy sufficient degrees of legitimacy to be sustained. Owing to
the contradictions that surface when juxtaposing the Western and
Congolese spheres, this book highlights how keeping them separate
is key to sustaining intervention. Bridging the divide between the
liberal peace debate in International Relations and anthropologies
of humanitarianism, this volume thus presents an important
contribution to taking both the legitimizing proclamations and
'local' realities of intervention seriously. The book will be of
much interest to students of statebuilding, peacebuilding,
peacekeeping, anthropology, research methods and IR in general.
Bridges the debates between IPE, CPE, International Relations and
financial studies. Provides a methodology to study the
interconnectedness of actors and practices in global financialized
capitalism. Case studies ranging from banking, to payments systems,
index providers and investor-state arbitration offer
state-of-the-art insights on some of the most important new actors
and practices in global finance.
Humanitarianism as a moral concept and an organized practice has
become a major factor in world society. It channels an enormous
amount of resources and serves as an argument for different kinds
of interference into the "internal affairs" of countries and
regions. At the same time, and for these very reasons, it is an
ideal testing ground for successful and unsuccessful cooperation
across borders. Humanitarianism and the Challenges of Cooperation
examines the multiple humanitarianisms of today as a testing ground
for new ways of global cooperation. General trends in the
contemporary transformation of humanitarianism are studied and
individual cases of how humanitarian actors cooperate with others
on the ground are investigated. This book offers a highly
innovative, empirically informed account of global humanitarianism
from the point of view of cooperation research in which
internationally renowned contributors analyse broad trends and
present case studies based on meticulous fieldwork. This book will
be of great interest to students and researchers in the areas of
political science, international relations and humanitarianism. It
is also a valuable resource for humanitarian aid workers.
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