Global Geopolitical Power And African Political And Economic Institutions

Author : John James Quinn
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739196456
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Global Geopolitical Power and African Political and Economic Institutions written by John James Quinn and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2015-12-30 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global Geopolitical Power and African Political and Economic Institutions: When Elephants Fight describes the emergence and nature of the prevailing African political and economic institutions in two periods. In the first, most countries adopted political and economic institutions that funneled significant levels of political and economic power to the political elites, usually through one- or no-party (military) political systems, inward-oriented development policies, and/ or state-led—and often state-owned—industrialization. In the second period, most countries adopted institutions that diluted the overarching political and economic power of ruling elites through the adoption of de jure multiparty electoral systems, more outward-oriented trade policies, and the privatization of many state owned or controlled sectors, though significant political and economic power remains in their hands. The choices made in each period were consistent with prevailing ideas on governance and development, the self-interests of political elites, and the perceived availability of support or autonomy vis-à-vis domestic, regional, and international sources of power at the time. This book illustrates how these two region-wide shifts in prevailing political and economic institutions and practices of Africa can be linked to two prior global geopolitical realignments: the end of WWII with the ensuing American and Soviet led bipolar system, and the end of the Cold War with American primacy. Each period featured changed or newly empowered international and regional leaders with competing national priorities within new intellectual and geopolitical climates, altering the opportunities and constraints for African leaders in instituting or maintaining particular political and economic institutions or practices. The economic and political institutions of Africa that emerged did so as a result of a complex mix of contending domestic, regional, and international forces (material and intellectual)—all which were themselves greatly transformed in the wake of these two global geopolitical realignments.

Author : John James Quinn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780739196441
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Global Geopolitical Power and African Political and Economic Institutions written by John James Quinn and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global Geopolitical Power and African Political and Economic Institutions describes the emergence of the prevailing political and economic institutions of Africa for two distinct periods. It illustrates how two important, region-wide shifts in African political and economic institutions and practices are related to global geopolitical realignments.

Author : Jason Warner
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137575743
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book African Foreign Policies in International Institutions written by Jason Warner and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-05-18 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first to exclusively consider the foreign policy tendencies of African states in international institutions. As an edited volume offering empirically based perspectives from a variety of scholars, this project disabuses the notion that Africa should be considered a "niche" interest in the field of foreign policy analysis. It asserts that the actions of the continent's states collectively serve as an important heuristic by which to interrogate and understand the foreign policies of other global states, and are not simply "anomalously" extant entities whose actions should be studied only insofar as they deviate from predictions based on the experiences of Western or other non-African states.

Author : S. Cornelissen
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230355749
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Africa and International Relations in the 21st Century written by S. Cornelissen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-01-26 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines key emergent trends related to aspects of power, sovereignty, conflict, peace, development, and changing social dynamics in the African context. It challenges conventional IR precepts of authority, politics and society, which have proven to be so inadequate in explaining African processes. Rather, this edited collection analyses the significance of many of the uncharted dimensions of Africa's international relations, such as the respatialisation of African societies through migration, and the impacts this process has had on state power; the various ways in which both formal and informal authority and economies are practised; and the dynamics and impacts of new transnational social movements on African politics. Finally, attention is paid to Africa's place in a shifting global order, and the implications for African international relations of the emergence of new world powers and/or alliances. This edition includes a new preface by the editors, which brings the findings of the book up-to-date, and analyses the changes that are likely to impact upon global governance and human development in policy and practice in Africa and the wider world post-2015.

Author : Francis Kornegay
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 0639995578
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Africa and the World written by Francis Kornegay and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2020-02-02 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Africa and the World: Navigating Shifting Geopolitics is one of the first books to analyse the global geopolitical landscape from an African perspective, with a view to the opportunities and challenges facing the African continent. Authors in this edited volume argue for the need to re-imagine Africas role in the world. As a cradle of humanity, a historical fountain of profound scientific knowledge, an object of colonial conquest and, today, a collective of countries seeking to pool their sovereignties in order to improve the human condition, Africa has a unique opportunity to advance its own interests. Authors re?ect on all these issues; they outline how developments in the global political economy impact on the continent and, inversely, how Africa can develop a strategic perspective that takes into account the dynamics playing out in a fraught global terrain.

Author : Justin van der Merwe
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319407368
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Emerging Powers in Africa written by Justin van der Merwe and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-12-09 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This empirically and theoretically grounded book provides insights into the ascendance of powers such as Turkey, South Korea and Indonesia and their relationship with Africa. Leading scholars present case studies from the BRICS and beyond to demonstrate the constantly evolving and complex character of these ties and their place in the global capitalist order. They also offer new theoretical insights, as well as theorisation of the spatio-temporal dynamics involved in processes of accumulation within the African space. Their contention is that, despite their supposed anti-imperialism, these emerging powers have become agents for continued uneven development. This innovative edited collection will appeal to students and scholars of international relations, political science, development studies, area studies, geography and economics.

Author : Pat McGowan
Publisher : Juta
ISBN 13 : 9781919713649
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Power, Wealth and Global Equity written by Pat McGowan and published by Juta. This book was released on 2002 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a revised edition of this book on power, wealth, global order and international relations, aimed at students in and out of Africa. Like its predecessor, this edition is aimed at students taking introductory courses in international relations and in Africa studies. However, many of the chapters will also appeal to readers interested in contemporary African affairs, and can be used by students in the Fields of foreign policy, comparative politics, history and political economy. Challenging the intellectual hegemony of the north, the authors show what the world and its patterns of powers, wealth and privilege/marginalisation look like from an African perspective of trans-border political and economic interaction in today's world. It also empowers students to become active players on the global stage and to contribute to changing these structures and institutions for the better. This text provides the student with up-to-date advice on how to use the internet and careers in international relations as well as a glossary, list of acronyms, bibliography, index, maps and biographies of important people mentioned in the text.

Author : Omprakash Mishra
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9819722314
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Global Political Economy, Geopolitics and International Security written by Omprakash Mishra and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Tukumbi Lumumba-Kasongo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Political Re-mapping of Africa written by Tukumbi Lumumba-Kasongo and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To find more information on Rowman & Littlefield titles, please visit us at www.rowmanlittlefield.com.

Author : M. Power
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137033665
Total Pages : 531 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book China's Resource Diplomacy in Africa written by M. Power and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-07-17 with total page 531 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book seeks to understand China's evolving political and economic role in Africa and assesses what impacts Chinese aid, trade and investment have on the politics of specific African countries, and the extent to which it excites geopolitical competition.