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Governance has become an important concept in the politics of
African development. It is therefore a crucial concept for social
science analyses focusing on Africa. In public discourse Africa's
future is being shaped by a combination of external interventions
backed by African elites who cooperate with the donors, whose
understanding of the importance of 'good governance' they share.
This groundbreaking book disentangles the analytical aspects of
governance from its political and normative connotations. The
'African exception' - the difference in 'development' between
Africa and other regions of the South - can be understood by
analysis focusing upon the specific forms of governance played out
in politics and economics. The perspective of neo-patrimonialism is
crucial but not sufficient here. The first section of the book
explores African governance in two functional spheres: the
political realm and the economic. Section two looks at new areas of
governance in Africa: violent social spaces, HIV/AIDS and
entrepreneurial urban governance.
This book addresses a major gap in the longstanding research on
regional organisations: how do their finances work and what do they
reveal about the region-building process? It brings together an
empirically rich collection of chapters written by experts of
regional organisations in Latin America, Africa and Asia. Based on
the insights on thirteen regional organisations as well as two
chapters dedicated to the influence of external funders, the
editors develop typologies to cluster regional organisations
according to their financial characteristics: the size of budgets,
the sources of funding and the criteria to calculate contributions.
Through analysing the process of budgeting and resourcing, the book
sheds light on the different nature and functioning of these
organisations existing outside of the Global North and puts a
specific emphasis on regional organisations in the area of security
in Africa and the Global South. It provides explanations to why
members pay or do not pay and how budgeting works, and it deals
with data availability, the role of donors, overlapping
regionalism, cultural transfers between regional organisations and
the impact on regional actorness. This volume will be of key
interest to scholars and students of African studies and politics,
the Global South, the finances of international organisations,
comparative regionalism, international political economy and
international relations.
Towards an African Peace and Security Regime: Continental
embeddedness, transnational linkages, strategic relevance provides
an informed and critical reflection on the adequacy of the emerging
African Peace and Security Architecture (APSA) to the medium- and
long-term challenges and opportunities of conflict prevention,
management and resolution in Africa. Complementary to the editors'
Africa's New Peace and Security Architecture: Implementing norms,
institutionalising solutions (Ashgate 2010), this volume revolves
around three main areas of focus: the continental 'embeddedness' of
norms, values and processes required for the gradual coming into
shape of the African peace and security regime; its transnational
linkages as well as the wider collective security environment; and
the empirical analysis of the connections between the continental
level and the regional economic communities with case-studies on
ECOWAS, SADC and COMESA.
This volume offers an informed and critical analysis of the
operationalization and institutionalization of the peace and
security architecture by the African Union and Africa's Regional
Economic Communities (RECs). In creating this architecture, the
African Union and the RECs tread new ground with potentially
significant consequences to the lives and livelihoods of millions
of Africans who are affected by war and armed conflict. In-depth,
critical chapters inform, clarify and provide key points for
reflection on the architecture as a whole as well as on each of the
structures currently under implementation. The volume examines the
institutions that will carry the mandate forward, raises pertinent
research questions for the successful operationalization of the
architecture and debates the medium and long-term challenges to
implementation. Students and researchers of African approaches to
peace building, conflict resolution and regional security will
benefit from the deep and critical engagement of issues covered in
this volume by world renowned scholars and practitioners.
This volume offers an informed and critical analysis of the
operationalization and institutionalization of the peace and
security architecture by the African Union and Africa's Regional
Economic Communities (RECs). In creating this architecture, the
African Union and the RECs tread new ground with potentially
significant consequences to the lives and livelihoods of millions
of Africans who are affected by war and armed conflict. In-depth,
critical chapters inform, clarify and provide key points for
reflection on the architecture as a whole as well as on each of the
structures currently under implementation. The volume examines the
institutions that will carry the mandate forward, raises pertinent
research questions for the successful operationalization of the
architecture and debates the medium and long-term challenges to
implementation. Students and researchers of African approaches to
peace building, conflict resolution and regional security will
benefit from the deep and critical engagement of issues covered in
this volume by world renowned scholars and practitioners.
An important new discussion of Africa's place in the
international system.
This volume discusses Africa's place in the international
system, examining the way in which the Westphalian system, in light
of the impact of globalization and transnational networks,
continues to play a major role in the structuring of Africa's
international relations.
The book provides a solid empirical analysis of key global players
in Africa - France, the UK, the US, Japan, Germany, the EU and the
UN - and of their policies towards the region. In the context of
the 'war against terrorism', African political stability becomes a
consideration of increasing importance. By analyzing the relevance
of the states in the North, this book challenges conventional
wisdom in recent international relations thinking. It applies the
concept of an 'international policy community' to bridge the gap
between the 'domestic' and the 'international', explaining why
Africa retains a role in global politics out of any proportion to
its economic weight.
This volume discusses Africa's place in the international system,
examining the way in which the Westphalian system, in light of the
impact of globalization and transnational networks, continues to
play a major role in the structuring of Africa's international
relations.
The book provides a solid empirical analysis of key global players
in Africa - France, the UK, the US, Japan, Germany, the EU and the
UN - and of their policies towards the region. In the context of
the 'war against terrorism', African political stability becomes a
consideration of increasing importance. By analyzing the relevance
of the states in the North, this book challenges conventional
wisdom in recent international relations thinking. It applies the
concept of an 'international policy community' to bridge the gap
between the 'domestic' and the 'international', explaining why
Africa retains a role in global politics out of any proportion to
its economic weight.
"Africa and the North "will interest students and scholars of
international relations and African Politics.
This edited volume approaches regionalism as one potential pattern
in a changing global order. Since the end of the Cold War,
different forms of territorialization have emerged and we are
confronted with an increasing number and variety of actors that are
establishing regional projects. This volume offers an innovative
contribution to the study of this new complexity by exploring
constellations of regional actors, spatial scales and imaginations
beyond state-centred perspectives as well as on multiple, often
overlapping levels. The chapters analyse the emergence,
trajectories and outcomes of regionalisms from the perspective of
the Global South, specifically concentrating on regional projects
in Latin America and Africa, but also in the Asia-Pacific. They
attempt to identify the specific conditions and junctures of
different forms of region-making in their external (global) and
internal (local/national) dimensions. The volume also places
special emphasis on interactions, spatial entanglements and
comparisons between regionalisms in different parts of the world.
By expanding beyond the perspective of North-South transfers, this
book seeks to better understand the dynamics and diversity of
interregional interactions. This volume will appeal to scholars of
global studies, international political economy, international
relations, human geography, and development studies, as well as
area studies specialists who focus on Latin America and Africa.
This book uses extractive industry projects in Africa to explore
how political authority and the nation-state are reconfigured at
the intersection of national political contestations and global,
transnational capital. Instead of focusing on technological zones
and the new social assemblages at the actual sites of construction
or mineral extraction, the authors use extractive industry projects
as a topical lens to investigate contemporary processes of
state-making at the state-corporation nexus. Throughout the book,
the authors seek to understand how public political actors and
private actors of liberal capitalism negotiate and redefine notions
and practices of sovereignty by setting legal, regulatory and
fiscal standards. Rather than looking at resource governance from a
normative perspective, the authors look at how these negotiations
are shaped by and reshape the self-conception of various national
and transnational actors, and how these jointly redefine the role
of the state in managing these processes for the 'greater good'.
Extractive Industries and Changing State Dynamics in Africa will be
useful for researchers, upper-level students and policy-makers who
are interested in new articulations of state-making and politics in
Africa.
Governance has become an important concept in the politics of
African development. It is therefore a crucial concept for social
science analyses focusing on Africa. In public discourse Africa's
future is being shaped by a combination of external interventions
backed by African elites who cooperate with the donors, whose
understanding of the importance of 'good governance' they share.
This groundbreaking book disentangles the analytical aspects of
governance from its political and normative connotations. The
'African exception' - the difference in 'development' between
Africa and other regions of the South - can be understood by
analysis focusing upon the specific forms of governance played out
in politics and economics. The perspective of neo-patrimonialism is
crucial but not sufficient here. The first section of the book
explores African governance in two functional spheres: the
political realm and the economic. Section two looks at new areas of
governance in Africa: violent social spaces, HIV/AIDS and
entrepreneurial urban governance.
This edited volume approaches regionalism as one potential pattern
in a changing global order. Since the end of the Cold War,
different forms of territorialization have emerged and we are
confronted with an increasing number and variety of actors that are
establishing regional projects. This volume offers an innovative
contribution to the study of this new complexity by exploring
constellations of regional actors, spatial scales and imaginations
beyond state-centred perspectives as well as on multiple, often
overlapping levels. The chapters analyse the emergence,
trajectories and outcomes of regionalisms from the perspective of
the Global South, specifically concentrating on regional projects
in Latin America and Africa, but also in the Asia-Pacific. They
attempt to identify the specific conditions and junctures of
different forms of region-making in their external (global) and
internal (local/national) dimensions. The volume also places
special emphasis on interactions, spatial entanglements and
comparisons between regionalisms in different parts of the world.
By expanding beyond the perspective of North-South transfers, this
book seeks to better understand the dynamics and diversity of
interregional interactions. This volume will appeal to scholars of
global studies, international political economy, international
relations, human geography, and development studies, as well as
area studies specialists who focus on Latin America and Africa.
This book addresses a major gap in the longstanding research on
regional organisations: how do their finances work and what do they
reveal about the region-building process? It brings together an
empirically rich collection of chapters written by experts of
regional organisations in Latin America, Africa and Asia. Based on
the insights on thirteen regional organisations as well as two
chapters dedicated to the influence of external funders, the
editors develop typologies to cluster regional organisations
according to their financial characteristics: the size of budgets,
the sources of funding and the criteria to calculate contributions.
Through analysing the process of budgeting and resourcing, the book
sheds light on the different nature and functioning of these
organisations existing outside of the Global North and puts a
specific emphasis on regional organisations in the area of security
in Africa and the Global South. It provides explanations to why
members pay or do not pay and how budgeting works, and it deals
with data availability, the role of donors, overlapping
regionalism, cultural transfers between regional organisations and
the impact on regional actorness. This volume will be of key
interest to scholars and students of African studies and politics,
the Global South, the finances of international organisations,
comparative regionalism, international political economy and
international relations.
This book uses extractive industry projects in Africa to explore
how political authority and the nation-state are reconfigured at
the intersection of national political contestations and global,
transnational capital. Instead of focusing on technological zones
and the new social assemblages at the actual sites of construction
or mineral extraction, the authors use extractive industry projects
as a topical lens to investigate contemporary processes of
state-making at the state-corporation nexus. Throughout the book,
the authors seek to understand how public political actors and
private actors of liberal capitalism negotiate and redefine notions
and practices of sovereignty by setting legal, regulatory and
fiscal standards. Rather than looking at resource governance from a
normative perspective, the authors look at how these negotiations
are shaped by and reshape the self-conception of various national
and transnational actors, and how these jointly redefine the role
of the state in managing these processes for the 'greater good'.
Extractive Industries and Changing State Dynamics in Africa will be
useful for researchers, upper-level students and policy-makers who
are interested in new articulations of state-making and politics in
Africa.
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