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Keywords
- Africa
- International Relations
- power
- identity
- statehood
- sovereignty
- international politics
- migration
- reterritorialisation
- sub-national identity
- diaspora politics
- private security spaces
- South-South multilateralisms
- conflict
- gender
- Governance
- immigration
- international relations
- nationalism
- privatization
- transformation
Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Introduction: Africa and International Relations in the 21st Century: Still Challenging Theory?
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Reconceptualizing Authority and Sovereignty
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Innovations from Below: Territory and Identity
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Insecurities
Reviews
"Africa and International Relations in the 21st Century is a must read resource for graduate students in political science, public administration and international business administration." - George Allan Phiri, Institute of Research, Development and Training, African Studies Quarterly
"This book explodes the myth that Africa is peripheral to International Relations theory. Through richly insightful analyses of governance and security in Africa, the authors establish that informal loci of authority, transnational complexes and non-state security arrangements challenge mainstream IR's insistent focus on the state as the primary unit of analysis. This volume should be required reading for scholars, students and policymakers who are interested in current debates on sovereignty and statehood, as well as in Africa's role in the changing global economy." Sandra Maclean, Simon Fraser University, Canada
"This is a very timely and invaluable contribution that advances our understanding of Africa's unanticipated "second chance" in the post bi-polar era and second decade of the 21st century. The volume intricately weaves critical perspectives on power, sovereignty, conflict, peace, and Africa's changing social dynamics together to create a seamless treatise of compelling scholarship. For anyone interested in African international relations, this is a must read." - Kobena T. Hanson, African Capacity Building Foundation, Zimbabwe
"As Jean-François Bayart's L'Etat en Afrique challenged statehood in Africa in the 1980s , Africa and International Relations in the 21st Century defeats conventional precepts of authority, sovereignty and security in Africa and beyond. It pictures a hybrid political order of state and non-state governance, with new state-civil society relationships and instructive informal dimensions of regional integration. It powerfully illustrates how authority is nowadays reterritorialized from below, reconstructing even the state." Cristina D'Alessandro, Sciences Po, France
"This is an outstanding collection of original, clear, and incisive essays that cover all the major issues in Africa today. It is the perfect book around which to organize a rigorous course on Africa in the world." Craig Murphy, Wellesley College, USA
"A worthy collection of considered and strong scholarship that puts the debates on Africa's position in the global economy beyond the current euphoria and exuberance! A must read to appreciate the continent in today's rapidly changing world." George Kararach, The African Development Bank
"This important collection brings to the fore the dynamics and processes that are shaping and re-shaping Africa's international connections. At a time when the continent is said to be 'rising', critical thoughts on Africa's place in world affairs are needed as perhaps never before." Ian Taylor, University of St Andrews, UK
"Africa, we are told, is a playground where the world competes and a place that too often fails expectations. Africa and International Relations rejects these tropes and challenges the reader to see the continent differently. It is an important addition to a growing body of literature that refuses to accept pre-packaged notions of Africa in the world." - Larry A. Swatuk, University of Waterloo, Canada
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Book Title: Africa and International Relations in the 21st Century
Editors: Scarlett Cornelissen, Fantu Cheru, Timothy M. Shaw
Series Title: International Political Economy Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230355743
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Political & Intern. Studies Collection, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-23528-1Published: 18 October 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-31384-6Published: 01 January 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-35574-3Published: 26 January 2016
Series ISSN: 2662-2483
Series E-ISSN: 2662-2491
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 248
Topics: African History, International Relations, International Political Economy, African Politics, Political Science, Globalization