Africa and the Formation of the New System of International Relations : Rethinking Decolonization and Foreign Policy Concepts /

This book discusses the prospects for the development of the African continent as part of the emerging system of international relations in the twenty-first century. African countries are playing an increasingly important part in the current system of international relations. Nevertheless, even 60 y...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Vasiliev, Alexey M. (Editor), Degterev, Denis A. (Editor), Shaw, Timothy M. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2021.
Edition:1st ed. 2021.
Series:Advances in African Economic, Social and Political Development,
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Part One: Legacy of Decolonization
  • Sixty Years Later: Africa's Stalled Decolonization
  • Post-Colonial Period in the History of Africa: Development Challenges
  • Rethinking the Role of Araujo Castro in Brazilian Position on the Decolonization of Africa
  • USSR and the Nkrumah's Project of the Union of African States, 1963-1965. (Based on Russian Archival Materials)
  • Part Two: Emerging Powers and Africa in the context of Multipolar World Formation
  • Designs of the Four: Comparing African Strategies of Russia, China, US and EU against the Backdrop of the (re-)Emerging Bipolarity
  • Russia-Africa: New Cooperation Prospects in a Changing World
  • Africa's Shadow Rise and the Mirage of Economic Development
  • Security and Development in China-Africa Contemporary Cooperation
  • Costs and Benefits of China's Role in Southern Africa
  • Africa in the Hierarchy of China's Core National Interests
  • Part Three: African Solutions to African Problems: the Role of Africans in Peacekeeping
  • The African Union and Peacekeeping in Africa: Challenges and Opportunities
  • African Peacekeeping and African Integration: Current Challenges
  • IGAD's Mediation and Peacekeeping in Africa: Challenges and Perspective
  • Women's Participation in the United Nations Peacekeeping Operations: Overcoming Barriers
  • Farmer-Herders Conflict as a Challenge to National Unity in Nigeria
  • Part Four: Mental Decolonization through Non-Western International Relations Theories
  • Analytic Afrocentricity and the Future of African Studies
  • African Foreign Policy Thought and Classical Political Doctrines: the Commonality of Ethical and Axiological Grounds
  • In Quest of African IR Theories: Panafricanism and National Ideologies, Critical Theories or Post-colonial Studies?
  • An African Worldview on International Relations: Theory and State Policy
  • Part Five: Decolonization in the 21st Century and Future Perspectives
  • Problem of African Agency in International Relations from the European Union Viewpoint
  • Information Dependence as the Neocolonialism of the 21st Century: Past, Present, Future. .