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Author | : István Tarrósy |
Publisher | : LIT Verlag Münster |
Total Pages | : 217 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 364311060X |
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During the first 25 years of independence, the African state was largely driven from within by the ambition to establish political order in a world where national sovereignty over issues of development was not in question. The theme of this book is that more is at stake today than in the past.
Author | : Samuel Ojo Oloruntoba |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 1116 |
Release | : 2021-11-22 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 3030774813 |
Download The Palgrave Handbook of Africa and the Changing Global Order Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This handbook fills a large gap in the current knowledge about the critical role of Africa in the changing global order. By connecting the past, present, and future in a continuum that shows the paradox of existence for over one billion people, the book underlines the centrality of the African continent to global knowledge production, the global economy, global security, and global creativity. Bringing together perspectives from top Africa scholars, it actively dispels myths of the continent as just a passive recipient of external influences, presenting instead an image of an active global agent that astutely projects soft power. Unlike previous handbooks, this book offers an eclectic mix of historical, contemporary, and interdisciplinary approaches that allow for a more holistic view of the many aspects of Africa’s relations with the world.
Author | : Robert H. Davies |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 20 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : South Africa |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Tukumbi Lumumba-Kasongo |
Publisher | : Praeger |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 1998-08-20 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
Download The Rise of Multipartyism and Democracy in the Context of Global Change Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Lumumba-Kasongo examines those forces that contributed to the fate of multiparty democracy in Africa. The forces include the state, political parties, ethnicity, nationalism, religion, underdevelopment, and the global market. Multipartyism in Africa is not necessarily democratic. However, the processes toward multipartyism can produce democratic discourses if they can be transformed by popular and social movements. As the author points out, almost all social classes have demanded some form of democracy. Yet the sociological meanings and teleological perspectives of those forms of democracy depend on an individual or group's economic and educational status. The dynamics of the global context, as reflected in the adoption of the structural adjustment programs of the World Bank and the stability programs of the International Monetary Fund, are likely to produce non-democratic conditions in Africa. Lumumba-Kasongo challenges the existing paradigms on democracy and development, so the book is of considerable interest to scholars and policy makers involved with African politics and socio-economic development.
Author | : Harry W. Richardson |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2006-03-30 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 354028351X |
Download Globalization and Urban Development Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Most research on globalization has focused on macroeconomic and economy-wide consequences. This book explores an under-researched area, the impacts of globalization on cities and national urban hierarchies, especially but not solely in developing countries. Most of the globalization-urban research has concentrated on the "global cities" (e.g. New York, London, Paris, Tokyo) that influence what happens in the rest of the world. In contrast, this research looks at the cities at the receiving end of the forces of globalization. The general finding is that large cities, on balance, benefit from globalization, although in some cases at the expense of widening spatial inequities.
Author | : George W. Shepherd |
Publisher | : Praeger |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1990-03-26 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
Download Emerging Human Rights Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book, a collaborative effort by Port-Harcourt University, Nigeria, and the University of Denver, deals with important theoretical considerations about human rights in Africa. The African contribution to the political economic approach to human rights has been especially significant and will continue to grow. This edited collection addressses both theoretical issues and actual case studies of human rights violations in the African context. Shepherd, a pioneer in African studies, provides a pathbreaking overview of the political economy of African human rights. The volume itself is divided into two sections: theory and issues and violations. In the first section, the contributors consider such theoretical questions as the problems and prospects of creating an equitable world order based on the global right to distributive justice; three generations of African people's rights; the relationship between underdevelopment and human rights violations in Africa; theological perspectives on human rights; and the African experience in human rights issues and violations. The second section addresses specific human rights issues and violations of those rights. Among the situations explored are the impact of revolutionary violence on development, equality, and justice in South Africa, and the effects of militarization, migrants, and refugees on African human rights. Also examined are the African context of human rights development and the impact of Ghanaian black feminism. A comprehensive bibliography completes the volume. The unique perspective provided by African scholars, along with European and American scholars of black Africa, makes this book an important addition to the literature of human rights and African studies.
Author | : LI Anshan |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 592 |
Release | : 2022-02-24 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1000463133 |
Download China and Africa in Global Context Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This title studies the relationship between China and Africa by reviewing this history and current state of interactions, offering a valuable addition to the often heated and contentious debate surrounding China's engagement in Africa from a Chinese angle. Comprised of four parts, the book covers a kaleidoscopic range of topics on Sino-Africa relations based on materials from different languages. The first part looks into early historical contact between China and Africa and historiography of African Studies in China in recent decades. Part Two contains a broad probe into the origin, dynamics, challenges and cultural heritage of China's policies towards Africa. The third part explores the issue of development cooperation from both the theoretical and practical point of view, with a focus on the case of Chinese medical teams in Africa and China's technology transfer to the continent. The final part illustrates bilateral migration, discussing the history and life of Chinese immigrants in Africa and the African diaspora in China. The insights in this book as well as real life case studies will make this work an indispensable reference for academics, students, policy makers and general readers who are interested in international issues and area studies, especially China-Africa relations, China's rise and African development.
Author | : Malte Brosig |
Publisher | : Palgrave Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2022-08-24 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9783030754112 |
Download Africa in a Changing Global Order Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book focuses on marginal actors in the global order. Such a perspective is often missing as global order analysis is often biased towards exploring large powerful actors and equating their relations with global order. Such an approach is not only dated but also analytically incomplete. It is because of the increasingly decentred nature of global order, that marginal actors and their relations, tactics, strategies and approaches matter for global order as they matter for these actors. The book starts by providing an analytical framework exploring different policy options for African agency which are located along a nexus of choices ranging from accommodation, engagement to system transformation. The selection of a particular interaction type is argued to be dependent on external opportunity structures in the form of different global orders reaching from competitive polarity to dispersed forms of authority or even non-polarity. In addition to these external conditions, the ability to generate meaningful African agency facilitates a greater role in global order. Empirically, the book covers four policy fields which are peace and security, international criminal justice, economics and trade and COVID-19.
Author | : Mark Beissinger |
Publisher | : Woodrow Wilson Center Press |
Total Pages | : 538 |
Release | : 2002-01-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781930365087 |
Download Beyond State Crisis? Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The contributors not only study state breakdown but compare the consequences of post-communism with those of post-colonialism.
Author | : Jong-Dae Park |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 456 |
Release | : 2018-12-31 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 3030039463 |
Download Re-Inventing Africa's Development Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This open access book analyses the development problems of sub-Sahara Africa (SSA) from the eyes of a Korean diplomat with knowledge of the economic growth Korea has experienced in recent decades. The author argues that Africa's development challenges are not due to a lack of resources but a lack of management, presenting an alternative to the traditional view that Africa's problems are caused by a lack of leadership. In exploring an approach based on mind-set and nation-building, rather than unity – which tends to promote individual or party interests rather than the broader country or national interests – the author suggests new solutions for SSA's economic growth, inspired by Korea's successful economic growth model much of which is focused on industrialisation. This book will be of interest to researchers, policymakers, NGOs and governmental bodies in economics, development and politics studying Africa's economic development, and Korea's economic growth model.