New security threats and crises in Africa: regional and international perspectives

This book is a multidisciplinary approach to Africa's international relationsin an era of globalization and the shifting of power from the West. It moves beyond colonization, marginalization, imperialism to look at the forces and dynamics that are reshaping Africa's external relations today. JACK MANGALA Assistant Professor Political Science and African and AfricanAmerican Studies, Grand Valley State University, USA. He is the co-author of Assessing George W. Bush's Policies toward Africa. INDICE: INTRODUCTION- Africa and the New World Era: Context and Stakes; 'J.Mangala' - PART I. AFRICA AND THE OLD BALANCE OF POWER - Britain and Africa: The Current Agenda; 'P.Williams' - Imperialism and US-Africa Relations; 'G.Kieh - 'Is France Disengaging from Africa? A Critical Look at Nicolas Sarkozy's 'Rupture' Policy in the Context of France-Africa Relations; 'D.Mengara - 'Russian-American Engagement on Africa; 'M.Vishnevskiy' - PART II. AFRICA AND THE NEW BALANCE OF POWER - Africa's China relations: contending imaginaries, changing politics and the realities of consolidation;' D.Large' India's New Engagement of Africa: Trends and Implications; 'P.Pham' - The African Policy of Brazil in the Framework of South-South Cooperation; 'G.Lechini - 'Japan and Africa: Diplomacy of Change and Continuity;' S.Adem' - PART III. ENGAGING MULTILATERAL INSTITUTIONS - The Evolving Africa-UN Relationship since the End of the Cold War;' A.Bariagaber' - The European Union and Africa: Old Partners in a ChangingWorld; 'J.Mangala' - The World Bank for Africa, or the World Bank for the World Bank?;' P.Clements - 'Can Sub-Saharan Africa achieve the Millennium Development Goals?; 'E.Cleeve' - PART IV. RESPONDING TO GLOBAL CHALLENGES: AFRICAN PERSPECTIVES AND DYNAMICS - Africa's Response to International Terrorism and theWar against It;' A.K.Bangura' - The United States Africa Command: Neo-Imperialism or Hegemonic Stability?; 'J.Mangala' - Confronting the Challenges of Health Security in Africa; 'J.Youde' - Food Security in Africa; 'A.Mwaniki' - Climate Change: Socio-Economic and Political Implications for Africa; 'L.Zulu ' - International Migrations; 'J.Mangala' - PART V. CONFRONTING AFRICA'S ECONOMIC,SOCIAL AND POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT - New Encounters in US-Africa Democracy Relations: Less of the Same?; 'R.K.Edozie' - U.S. AIDS Policy in Africa: Managing the Multiple Objectives of the PEPFAR Program;' P.Diven - 'The Impact of the World Economic Crisis on African Economies; 'K.Quartey - 'Nationalism, the African State and the Myth of the Ethnic Carnivore; 'R.Yidana' - PART VI. THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY AND AFRICAN CRISES - The Conflicts in Sudan: A Strategic and Humanitarian Reading;' M.Salih - 'The Dangers of 'Enablement:' The International Community and Conflict in the Great Lakes; 'J.F.Clark ' - The Crisis inZimbabwe: Regional Dynamics and International Involvement; 'M.Mupepi - 'The Peripheral Capitalist State, the Crises of Underdevelopment and Civil War: A Comparative Study of Liberia and Sierra Leone; 'G.Kieh' International Actors andCote d'Ivoire's Crisis; 'A.K.Bangura'

• ISBN: 978-0-230-10796-0
• Editorial: Palgrave MacM
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 296
• Fecha Publicación: 19/01/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Desconocido