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Subject(s)

• International relations [Browse]
• Africa—Foreign relations [Browse]
• Decolonization—Africa [Browse]

Editor

• Vasiliev, Alexey M. [Browse]
• Degterev, D. A. (Denis Andreevich) [Browse]
• Shaw, Timothy M. [Browse]

Related name

• ProQuest (Firm) [Browse]

Series

• Advances in African economic, social and political development [More in this series]
• Advances in African economic, social and political development, 2198-7270 [More in this series]

Summary note

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 years after gaining their independence, most of them are confronted with regional and global issues that are directly related to their colonial past and its influence. Due to Africa's wealth of natural and geopolitical resources, the possibility of interference in the internal affairs of African countries on the part of new and traditional global actors remains very real. Leading Africanists, together with international scholars from both international relations and African studies, examine the experience of decolonization, the impact of the emergence of a unipolar world on the African continent, and the growing influence of new international actors on the African continent in the twenty-first century. In addition, the importance of African countries' foreign policy concepts and ideological attitudes in the post-bipolar period is revealed.

Reproduction note

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Source of description

Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed September 27, 2021).

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.

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ISBN

• 9783030773366 ((electronic bk.))
• 3030773361 ((electronic bk.))

OCLC

1268440969

Doi

• 10.1007/978-3-030-77336-6

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