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The volume documents Africa (and African states) in a state of proactivity as opposed to a reactionary mode of international relations which has long been the case due to the discipline's heavy concentration on the West.
List of contents
1. Conceptualising Agency and Influence in African International Relations,
Elijah N. Munyi, David Mwambari and Aleksi Ylönen / 2. The Hijacked and Appropriating of African Agency in International Relations, Funmi Olonisakin / 3. Confronting an Imperialist Court: Africa's Quagmire in Dealing with the International Criminal Court, Torque Mude / 4. The Commonwealth Beckon: Clientelist Agency in Post Brexit EU-ACP Relations, Elijah N. Munyi / 5. Engaging Foreign Powers: The Changing Political Environment and Regime Survival in the Horn of Africa, Aleksi Ylönen / 6. The Role of African Union Agency in Managing Election Related Violence in Cote d'Ivoire, Tinashe Sithole / 7. Hurting Stalemate in International Interventions: An Analysis of the IGAD-Led Engagements in the South Sudan Conflict, 2013-2017, Muema Wambua / 8. Creating Sustainable Peace: The International Conference on The Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) Attempts to Deal with Sexual and Gender based Violence, Anselm Wongibeh / 9. Rwanda's agency in the United Nations after 1994 Genocide, David Mwambari / 10. Innovative Remittance Transfer Channels: Improving the Impact of Global South Remittances to Kenya's National Development, Angela W. Muguna / 11. Failed Agency in Africa's Air Liberalisation; Re-examining the Youmossukro Decision, Sabina Bwire / 12. Conclusion, Munyi, Mwambari, Ylonen
About the author
David Mwambari is an FWO postdoctoral research fellow at the Department of Conflict and Development Studies at Ghent University in Belgium and an adjunct faculty at The African Leadership Centre (ALC) in the Faculty of Social Science & Public Policy at King's College London (UK).
Elijah Nyaga Munyi is an Assiatnt Professor of International relations at the United States International University and a Post-doctoral Fellow at the Science Po University, Bordeaux.
Aleksi Ylönen is an Associate Professor of International Relations at the United States International University- Africa (USIU- Africa).
