African Engagements
Africa Negotiating an Emerging Multipolar World
Paperback Engels 2011 9789004209886Samenvatting
With the end of the Cold War, the world seemed to move from a bipolar to a unipolar system, with the neoliberal West globally imposing its laws. However, it has been acknowledged that other actors, such as China, India and Brazil, have become increasingly influential, helping to lead to a new multipolarity at the global level. The question of what this emerging multipolarity means for Africa is important. Will Africa become crushed in a mounting struggle over raw materials and political hegemony between superpowers and fall victim to a new scramble for Africa? Or does this new historic conjuncture offer African countries and groups greater room for negotiation and manoeuvring, eventually leading to stronger democracy and enhanced growth? The chapters in this volume offer food for thought on how Africa’s engagements with the world are currently being reshaped and revalued, and, importantly—on whose terms?
Specificaties
Lezersrecensies
Inhoudsopgave
Figures, Tables and Maps …….……….…………………………… viii
1. African engagements: On whose terms? Africa negotiating an emerging multipolar world ……….. 1
Ton Dietz, Kjell Havnevik, Mayke Kaag & Terje Oestigaard
PART I
NEW TRENDS AND TENDENCIES IN AFRICA
2. Trends in transnational political engagement in Africa: The promises of NEPAD … 35
Samuel Teshale Derbe
3. Political topographies of private security in Sub-Saharan Africa … 56
Peer Schouten
4. The neoliberalisation of nature in Africa …….…….……….. 84
Bram Büscher
5. Foreign land acquisitions in Madagascar: Competing jurisdictions of access claims .... 110
Sandra Evers, Perrine Burnod, Andrianirina Ratsialonana Rivo & André Teyssier
6. Mobilising Brazil as ‘significant other’ in the fight for HIV/Aids treatment in South Africa: The Treatment
Action Campaign (TAC) and its global allies .………….… 133
Wiebe Nauta
7. Beyond negotiating a multipolar world: Sudan’s non-Western development cooperation alternative .. 163
Mohamed Salih
PART II
FRAMING MULTIPOLARITY
8. How does the Chinese involvement in the African continent affect African sovereignty in the context
of the changing nature of power? ………….………….……… 185
Sanne van der Lugt
9. China into Africa: Conflict or the triumph of Western order? ..……..…………. 204
Gorm Rye Olsen
10. Railway time: Technology transfer and the role of Chinese experts in the history of TAZARA .….… 226
Liu Haifang & Jamie Monson
11. China-Africa relations: The relevance of strategic engagement of African civil society organisations
with China..... 252
Antony Otieno Ong’ayo
12. New topographies of power? Africa negotiating an emerging multipolar world …….. 280
Simona Vittorini & David Harris
13. The Obama administration’s engagements in Africa within historical context: Great expectations versus
daunting challenges ..……….. 300
Peter J. Schraeder
PART III
NEW SPACE FOR AFRICAN ENGAGEMENTS?
14. Public policy formation in Africa in the wake of the global financial meltdown: Building blocks for a New Mind in a multipolar world …..……….……..….. 327
Lloyd G.A. Amoah
15. Aligning and harnessing the gains of globalisation to an African advantage: Towards ‘glo-fricanisation’ .… 346
Lawrence Ogbo Ugwuanyi
16. Africa in the world: A historical view ..….…………….……. 364
Stephen Ellis
List of contributors ……………….……….………………………….. 377
Index ………………………………….……….………………………….. 385
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