Description
This book probes key issues pertaining to Africa’s relations with global actors. It provides a comprehensive trajectory of Africa’s relations with key bilateral and major multilateral actors, assessing how the Cold War affected the African state systems’ political policies, its economies, and its security. Taken together, the essays in this volume provide a collective understanding of Africa’s drive to improve the capacity of its state of global affairs, and assess whether it is in fact able to do so.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: Inspirations and Hesitations in Africa’s Relations with External Actors
Charles Mutasa
Part I: Bilateral Relations: Traditional Powers
2. Africa and the United Stater: A History of Malign Neglect
Adekeye Adebajo
3. Africa and Russia: The Pursuit of Strengthened Relations in the Post-Cold War Era
Rosaline Daniel and Vladimir Shubin
4. Africa and China: Winding Into A Community Of Common Destiny
Liu Haifang
5. France and Africa
Douglas A. Yates
6. To Brexit and Beyond: Africa and the United Kingdom
Alex Vines
7. Africa and Portugal
Clara Carvalho
Part II: Bilateral Relations: Non-Traditional Power
s 8. Africa and Italy’s Relations After the Cold War
Bernardo Venturi
9. Brazil-Africa Relations: From Boom to Bust?
Adriana Erthal Abdenur
10. A Renewed Partnership? Contemporary Latin America-Africa Engagement
Danilo Marcondes
11. Africa and India: Riding the Tail of the Tiger?
Kudrat Virk
12. Africa-Japan Relations in the Post-Cold War Era
Scarlett Cornelissen and Yoichi Mine
13. Africa and the Nordics
Anne Hammerstad
14. Africa, the Islamic World, and Europe
Roel van der Veen
Part III: Multilateral Relations
15. Africa and the Middle East: Shifting Alliances and Strategic Pa
rtnershipsHamdy A. Hassan and Hala Thabet
16. Africa at the United Nations: From Dominance to Weakness
James O.C. Jonah
17. Africa and the International Criminal Court
Dan Kuwali18. Can the BRICS Re-Open the “Gateway to Africa”? South Africa’s Contradictory Facilitation of Divergent Brazilian, Russian, Indian and Chinese Interests
Patrick Bond
19. Europe-Africa Relations in the Era of Uncertainty
Gilbert M. Khadiagala
20. Africa and the World Trade Organisation
Mariama Williams
21. Sub-Saharan Africa: the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund
L. Adele Jinadu
22. Conclusion
Dawn Nagar
