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This book analyses the foreign policies of African countries, specifically in the region of East Africa.
It reveals the regional dynamics and the way in which the international system interacts with these policies and how they are driven by domestic politics versus national visions, and vice versa. As such, it provides fine-grained and historically informed analyses of the international relations of these states arguing that foreign policy is always informed by domestic processes and the relations between states and changes within the international system impact on the formulation of domestic politics via foreign policy. Finally, the book argues that East Africa's foreign policy is not one of militarised action alone but rather a mélange of self-survival strategies stemming from the desire to close the gap with more industrialised states necessitating a variety of trade and diplomatic efforts.
This book is of key interest to scholars and students of African politics, Foreign Policy, Foreign Policy Analysis, International Organisations and, more broadly, to comparative politics and international relations.
List of contents
Introduction 1. The Historicity of International Relations in East Africa 2. The "Foreign Relations" of Uganda's Budget 3. Ensuring Intra-Regional Stability to Enable External Efficiency: The EAC as a Fragile Embryonic Security Community? 4. The "Impossible Mission" of the East African Community Regional Force (EACRF) to Fight the M23 Rebellion in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) 5. Rwanda-Uganda Relations: Elites' Attitudes and Perceptions in Inter-State Relations 6. "Seductions" of the International? Strategic Propping of Rwanda's Image in International Society 7. A Shift in Tanzania's Foreign Policy Towards Israel 8. An Examination of the Central Predicate of Uganda's Foreign Policy in the Great Lakes Region 9. War as Foreign Policy: Waltzian Imagery and the Great Lakes Region of Africa. Afterword: Foreign policy in East Africa after the Rwanda genocide
About the author
Jude Kagoro is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Intercultural and International Studies (InIIS), Bremen University, Germany.
Julian Friesinger works as a Programme Manager for Andreas Hermes Akademie, Germany.
Klaus Schlichte is Professor of International Relations and World Society at the University of Bremen, Germany.
Summary
This book analyses the foreign policies of African countries, specifically in the region of East Africa.
