Readings in the International Relations of Africa

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These readings in international relations in Africa grapple with the continent's changing place in the world. The essays confront issues such as the increasing tempo of armed conflict, the tendency of Western states and agencies to intervene in African settings, the presence of China, and the health of African states and their ability to participate in the global economy. Questions regarding sovereignty, leading regional actors, conflict and resolution, and the neoliberal African renaissance add to the broad thematic coverage presented in this timely volume.

Acknowledgments and Note on Original Sources
Introduction Tom Young
Part I. Sovereignty and Statehood
Introduction
1. Independence by Right Robert H. Jackson
2. Regimes of Sovereignty: International Morality and the African Condition Siba N. Grovogui
3. The Rise of the State System in Africa Carolyn M. Warner
Part II. Africa and the International Order
Introduction
4. Policy Autonomy and the History of British Aid to Africa
Postscript, March 2014 Tony Killick
5. 'Development is Very Political in Tanzania': Oxfam and the Chunya Integrated Development Programme 1972–76 Michael Jennings
6. Evolution of the United Nations Anti-Apartheid Regime Newell M. Stultz
7. What Next? Selective Genocide in Burundi Rene Lemarchand
Part III. New States and the Continental Order
Introduction
8. The Scramble for Africa: Inherited Political Boundaries Ieuan Griffiths
9. The OAU Interventions in Chad: Mission Impossible or Mission Evaded? Roy May and Simon Massey
Part IV. Africa and the Great Powers
Introduction
10. French African Policy in Historical Perspective Tony Chafer
11. Propaganda and Politics John Stockwell
12. "Flee! The White Giants are Coming!" The United States, the Mercenaries and the Congo 1964–65 Piero Gleijeses
13. The Prospects of Socialism: Ethiopia and the Horn Odd Arne Westad
Part V. Conflict, War and Intervention
Introduction
14. Rebel Movements and Proxy Warfare: Uganda, Sudan and the Congo (1986–99) Gérard Prunier
15. The United Nations in Africa: The Rise of Peacekeeping and the Case of Somalia Richard K. Al-Qaq
16. The Liberal Peace Is Neither: Peacebuilding, State Building and the Reproduction of Conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo Stein Sundstøl Eriksen
Part VI. Globalization and a New World Order?
Introduction
17. 'A Project to be Realized:' Global Liberalism and Contemporary Africa Tom Young
18. Values, Context and Hybridity: How Can the Insights from the Liberal Peace Critique Literature Be Brought to Bear on the Practices of the UN Peacebuilding Architecture? Eli Stamnes
19. Is the EU's Governance 'Good?': An Assessment of EU Governance in Its Partnership with ACP States Nikki Slocum-Bradley and Andrew Bradley
20. Female Circumcision as Female Genital Mutilation: Human Rights or Cultural Imperialism?
Abdulmumini A. Oba
21. Politics, Anti-Politics, International Justice: Language and Power in the Special Court for Sierra Leone Tim Kelsall
Part VII. African Renaissance? The African Union & NEPAD
Introduction
22. Explaining the Clash and Accommodation of Interests of Major Actors in the Creation of the African Union Thomas Kwasi Tieku
23. "Partnership" through Accommodation? African Development Initiatives and Universal Policy Prescriptions Ian Taylor
24. The Power of Partnerships in Global Governance Rita Abrahamsen
Part VIII. The Return of Geopolitics
Introduction
25. China, India, Russia and the United States: The Scramble for African Oil and the Militarization of the Continent Daniel Volman
26. Towards a Critical Geopolitics of China's Engagement with African Development Marcus Power and Giles Mohan
27. A New Phase in the War on Terror: The Implications of Proxy Intelligence and Western Complicity with State Terrorist Agencies Jeremy Keenan

List of Original Sources
List of Contributors
Index

Sujets

• African Studies
• International Relations
• Political Science
• África
• General officer
• Globalization
• Peace
• Politics
• General
• Africa
• Paix

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• Publié par: Indiana University Press
• Date de parution: 11 janvier 2016
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780253018946
• Langue: English

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Readings in the International Relations of Africa
Readings in African Studies
Series Editors
Jocelyn Alexander, University of Oxford
David Pratten, University of Oxford
Readings in African Popular Culture
Edited by Karin Barber
Readings in African Popular Fiction
Edited by Stephanie Newell
Readings in African Politics
Edited by Tom Young
Readings in Gender in Africa
Edited by Andrea Cornwall
Readings in Modernity in Africa
Edited by Peter Geschiere, Birgit Meyer, and Peter Pels
This series makes available to students a representative selection of the best and most exciting work in fields where standard textbooks have hitherto been lacking. Such fields may be located anywhere across the full range of Africanist humanities and social sciences. The emphasis is on newly emerging fields or fields that cross older disciplinary boundaries. The aim is to bring together central, key works-that help define the field-with other significant pieces that cut across established or conventional positions. As far as possible, all the subregions of sub-Saharan Africa are covered in each volume.
Each reader aims to include materials from journal and books, work published in Africa, and newly commissioned texts to cover significant gaps and recent developments. The significance of the readings is discussed in the introductory sections, which aim to make significant contributions in their own right. The overall level is for postgraduate and late stage undergraduate courses, and the emphasis is on assembling titles that can be used as textbooks.
Readings in the International Relations of Africa
EDITED BY TOM YOUNG
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Identifiers: LCCN 2015022399| ISBN 9780253018809 (cloth : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780253018885 (pbk. : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780253018946
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CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
NOTE ON ORIGINAL SOURCES
Introduction
Tom Young
Part I. Sovereignty and Statehood
Introduction
1. Independence by Right
Robert H. Jackson
2. Regimes of Sovereignty: International Morality and the African Condition
Siba N. Grovogui
3. The Rise of the State System in Africa
Carolyn M. Warner
Part II. Africa and the International Order
Introduction
4. Policy Autonomy and the History of British Aid to Africa
Tony Killick
5. Development Is Very Political in Tanzania : Oxfam and the Chunya Integrated Development Programme 1972-76
Michael Jennings
6. Evolution of the United Nations Anti-Apartheid Regime
Newell M. Stultz
7. What Next? Selective Genocide in Burundi
Rene Lemarchand
Part III. New States and the Continental Order
Introduction
8. The Scramble for Africa: Inherited Political Boundaries
Ieuan Griffiths
9. The OAU Interventions in Chad: Mission Impossible or Mission Evaded?
Roy May and Simon Massey
Part IV. Africa and the Great Powers
Introduction
10. French African Policy in Historical Perspective
Tony Chafer
11. Propaganda and Politics
John Stockwell
12. Flee! The White Giants are Coming! The United States, the Mercenaries and the Congo 1964-65
Piero Gleijeses
13. The Prospects of Socialism: Ethiopia and the Horn
Odd Arne Westad
Part V. Conflict, War, and Intervention
Introduction
14. Rebel Movements and Proxy Warfare: Uganda, Sudan, and the Congo (1986-99)
G rard Prunier
15. The United Nations in Africa: The Rise of Peacekeeping and the Case of Somalia
Richard K. Al-Qaq
16. The Liberal Peace Is Neither: Peacebuilding, State Building, and the Reproduction of Conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Stein Sundst l Eriksen
Part VI. Globalization and a New World Order?
Introduction
17. A Project to be Realized : Global Liberalism and Contemporary Africa
Tom Young
18. Values, Context, and Hybridity: How Can the Insights from the Liberal Peace Critique Literature Be Brought to Bear on the Practices of the UN Peacebuilding Architecture?
Eli Stamnes
19. Is the EU s Governance Good? : An Assessment of EU Governance in Its Partnership with ACP States
Nikki Slocum-Bradley and Andrew Bradley
20. Female Circumcision as Female Genital Mutilation: Human Rights or Cultural Imperialism?
Abdulmumini A. Oba
21. Politics, Anti-politics, International Justice: Language and Power in the Special Court for Sierra Leone
Tim Kelsall
Part VII. African Renaissance? The African Union and NEPAD
Introduction
22. Explaining the Clash and Accommodation of Interests of Major Actors in the Creation of the African Union
Thomas Kwasi Tieku
23. Partnership through Accommodation? African Development Initiatives and Universal Policy Prescriptions
Ian Taylor
24. The Power of Partnerships in Global Governance
Rita Abrahamsen
Part VIII. The Return of Geopolitics?
Introduction
25. China, India, Russia, and the United States: The Scramble for African Oil and the Militarization of the Continent
Daniel Volman
26. Towards a Critical Geopolitics of China s Engagement with African Development
Marcus Power and Giles Mohan
27. A New Phase in the War on Terror: The Implications of Proxy Intelligence and Western Complicity with State Terrorist Agencies
Jeremy Keenan
LIST OF ORIGINAL SOURCES
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
INDEX
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
This volume complements an earlier one on politics. The intentions are much the same, to provide the reader with both a large collection of material from which to learn and on which to reflect, as well as a guide through the development of the field of enquiry. A number of readers of the previous volume have suggested that I craft an introduction that was more helpful, at least less interpretative, to the reader, and this advice I have tried to follow.
I am grateful to the Publications Committee of the International African Institute for its painstakingly meticulous examination of many versions of the volume s design and contents as well as to the support of the editors of the series in which it appears. I am grateful also to Richard Al-Qaq for permission to reprint his work and to Richard for helpful suggestions on how the volume might be organized. Two of the texts reproduced here are by former PhD students of mine (Al-Qaq and Kelsall). A fact I mention to acknowledge not only how much I learned from them, but also to pay tribute to their dogged determination to pursue enquiry in directions not always congenial to received wisdom, a virtue with which British academia at least is not self-evidently oversupplied. Another former student David Williams and I have continued a modest collaboration over the years around some of the themes raised in this book. In the introduction I have almost certainly borrowed ideas and formulations from him, and this also I would like to acknowledge. Finally, I must express my gratitude to Stephanie Kitchen, managing editor of the International African Institute for guiding this volume through some considerable technical difficulties and problems.
NOTE ON ORIGINAL SOURCES
While some of the content has been written specially for this Reader, most of the material included here has been extracted from published sources and selectively edited or abridged. References, bibliographies, and notes have for the most part been omitted to render the texts as self-contained and coherent as possible. A full reference to the original publication or source is given in the List of Original Sources at the end of the Reader. Readers are encouraged to pursue their interests by consulting the full versions.
Readings in the International Relations of Africa
INTRODUCTION
Tom Young
THE DISCIPLINE OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND AFRICA
Academic literature on Africa and international relations is still relatively rare, and what there is often consists of little more than lengthy complaints about the lack of consideration of Africa, or the non-Western world more generally, within the discipline of International Relations (I