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This book explores, at a time when several powers have become
serious players on the continent, aspects of African agency, past
and present, by African writers on foreign policy, representative
of geography, language and state size. In the past, African foreign
policy has largely been considered within the context of reactions
to the international or global "external factor". This
groundbreaking book, however, looks at how foreign policy has been
crafted and used in response not just to external, but also,
mainly, domestic imperatives or (theoretical) signifiers. As such,
it narrates individual and changing foreign policy orientations
over time-and as far back as independence-with mainly African-based
scholars who present their own constructs of what is a useful
theoretical narrative regarding foreign policy on the continent-how
theory is adapted to local circumstance or substituted for
continentally based ontologies. The book therefore contends that
the African experience carries valuable import for expanding
general understandings of foreign policy in general. This book will
be of key interest to scholars and students of Foreign Policy
Analysis, Foreign Policy Studies, African International
Relations/Politics/Studies, Diplomacy and more broadly to
International Relations.
Recent scholarship in International Relations (IR) has started to
study the meaning and implications of a non-Western world. With
this comes the need for a new paradigm of IR theory that is more
global, open, inclusive, and able to capture the voices and
experiences of both Western and non-Western worlds. This book
investigates why Africa has been marginalised in IR discipline and
theory and how this issue can be addressed in the context of the
emerging Global IR paradigm. To have relevance for Africa, a new IR
theory needs to be more inclusive, intellectually negotiated and
holistically steeped in the African context. In this innovative
volume, each author takes a critical look at existing IR paradigms
and offers a unique perspective based on the African experience.
Following on from Amitav Acharya and Barry Buzan's work,
Non-Western International Relations Theory, it develops and
advances non-Western IR theory and the idea of Global IR. This
volume will be of key interest to scholars and students of African
politics, international relations, IR theory and comparative
politics.
This book explores, at a time when several powers have become
serious players on the continent, aspects of African agency, past
and present, by African writers on foreign policy, representative
of geography, language and state size. In the past, African foreign
policy has largely been considered within the context of reactions
to the international or global "external factor". This
groundbreaking book, however, looks at how foreign policy has been
crafted and used in response not just to external, but also,
mainly, domestic imperatives or (theoretical) signifiers. As such,
it narrates individual and changing foreign policy orientations
over time-and as far back as independence-with mainly African-based
scholars who present their own constructs of what is a useful
theoretical narrative regarding foreign policy on the continent-how
theory is adapted to local circumstance or substituted for
continentally based ontologies. The book therefore contends that
the African experience carries valuable import for expanding
general understandings of foreign policy in general. This book will
be of key interest to scholars and students of Foreign Policy
Analysis, Foreign Policy Studies, African International
Relations/Politics/Studies, Diplomacy and more broadly to
International Relations.
Recent scholarship in International Relations (IR) has started to
study the meaning and implications of a non-Western world. With
this comes the need for a new paradigm of IR theory that is more
global, open, inclusive, and able to capture the voices and
experiences of both Western and non-Western worlds. This book
investigates why Africa has been marginalised in IR discipline and
theory and how this issue can be addressed in the context of the
emerging Global IR paradigm. To have relevance for Africa, a new IR
theory needs to be more inclusive, intellectually negotiated and
holistically steeped in the African context. In this innovative
volume, each author takes a critical look at existing IR paradigms
and offers a unique perspective based on the African experience.
Following on from Amitav Acharya and Barry Buzan's work,
Non-Western International Relations Theory, it develops and
advances non-Western IR theory and the idea of Global IR. This
volume will be of key interest to scholars and students of African
politics, international relations, IR theory and comparative
politics.
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