Research Catalog

Title

Africa in a changing global order : marginal but meaningful? / Malte Brosig.

Author

Brosig, Malte

Publication

• Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
• ©2021

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Description

xiii, 227 pages : illustrations (some color); 22 cm

Summary

"This book focuses on marginal actors in the global order. Such a perspective is often missing as global order analysis is often biased towards exploring large powerful actors and equating their relations with global order. Such an approach is not only dated but also analytically incomplete. It is because of the increasingly decentred nature of global order, that marginal actors and their relations, tactics, strategies and approaches matter for global order as they matter for these actors. The book starts by providing an analytical framework exploring different policy options for African agency which are located along a nexus of choices ranging from accommodation, engagement to system transformation. The selection of a particular interaction type is argued to be dependent on external opportunity structures in the form of different global orders reaching from competitive polarity to dispersed forms of authority or even non-polarity. In addition to these external conditions, the ability to generate meaningful African agency facilitates a greater role in global order. Empirically, the book covers four policy fields which are peace and security, international criminal justice, economics and trade and COVID-19. "

Subjects

• Politics and government
• Diplomatic relations
• Economic policy
• Globalization
• International relations
• Africa > Economic policy
• Africa > Politics and government
• Africa > Foreign relations

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. The global order debate and Africa -- 2. Conceptualising marginality: Africa's place in the global order -- 3. The African security regime complex: innovation in a decentred global order / Expert interview :Gilbert Khadiagala -- 4. International criminal justice as normative order: Africa and the ICC / Expert interview :Navi Pillay -- 5. Economics / Expert interview : Carlos Lopes -- 6. COVID-19 and global order / Expert interview :Richard Mihigo -- 7. Conclusion: marginal but meaningful-analysing Africa's role in global order -- Index.

Call Number

ReCAP 22-1262

ISBN

• 3030754081
• 9783030754082

OCLC

1245658643

Author

Brosig, Malte, author.

Title

Africa in a changing global order : marginal but meaningful? / Malte Brosig.

Publisher

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]

Copyright Date

©2021

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Research Call Number

ReCAP 22-1262