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Contemporary Africa and the Foreseeable World Ordersheds light on theplace of "Africa Agency" in the competitive and changing global system. This book provides scholars, policymakers, and other stakeholders studying and working on African issues with innovative solutions, strategies, knowledge, insights, case studies, and analyses to support decision-making on how best African states should position themselves in the dynamic global system in order to influence key decisions. Featuring themes such as the African Union (AU) and the consequences of the discovery of oil in the non-traditional oil exporting countries, the editors and contributors have demonstrated why and how Africa's position in the foreseeable world order is largely dependent on the influence of both existing and emerging world powers.
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List of contents
Chapter 1: Rethinking the New World Order and Its Implications for Africa
Chapter 2: Africa and the Remaking of Global Order
Chapter 3: Towards a New Peace and Security Agenda: Contributions from Pan Africanism
Chapter 4: The AU's New Funding Mechanisms: Self-Financing at Last?
Chapter 5: Can the African Union Innovate in Conflict Prevention? Evidence from Mediation and Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism
Chapter 6: Antidotes to Extremism: Africa's Refugee Hospitality Paradigm
Chapter 7: Relational African Values between Nations: Bringing Communion to the Global OrderChapter 8: Between Atavism and Modernity: Sub-Saharan Africa's Strained Relationship with Constitutionalism
Chapter 9: Another Round of Plunder? China, Africa and International Politics through the Lens of the Mugabe Government, c.2000 to 2016
Chapter 10: How "Organized Hypocrisy" within the Standby Force is pulling Africa from the global influence
Chapter 11: Balance of Power and the 2017 African Union Commission Elections
Chapter 12: Hydropolitics of Resource Exploration in Eastern Africa
Chapter 13: Politics of Oil in Eastern Africa: Does it present another Geopolitical Pivot?
Chapter 14: State-Led Development in Ethiopia: A Failing Legacy or an Existential Threat to the Nation?
Chapter 15: Regime Construction and Sustainable Stability in the Nile Basin: The East African Community Multilateral Diplomacy in a Theoretical ContextChapter 16: The Future of Kiswahili is Bright: The Potential of East Africa's Lingua Franca in the Emerging World OrderChapter 17: Kenya's National Security and International Refugee Law in the Dynamic World OrderChapter 18: Can the "African Centrered Journalism" Contain the Terror threats in the New World Order?
Chapter 19: African Foreign Policy Making in the African Union: Peace and Security
Chapter 20: Kenya's Foreign Policy (2013-2017) and African Renaissance
Chapter 21: The Making of 'Gender Diplomacy' as a Foreign Policy Pillar in Kenya and Namibia
About the author
Edited by Francis Onditi; Gilad Ben-Nun; Zach Levey and Cristina D'Alessandro - Foreword by Abu Bah - Contributions by Gilad Ben-Nun; Cristina D'Alessandro; Zach Levey; Adriana Abdenur; Cheryl Hendricks; Edmond Were; Giovanna Kuele; Fredrick Ogenga; Frew
Summary
Contemporary Africa and the Foreseeable World Order brings together rich and diverse contributions from seasoned scholars from around the globe. Anchored in a wide array of disciplinary perspectives, the contributors explore the interesting and complex dynamics at play in Africa’s interactions with the rest of the world.
