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African Foreign Policies in International Institutions

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Editors:
  1. Jason Warner

    1. United States Military Academy, West Point, USA

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  2. Timothy M. Shaw

    1. University of Massachusetts-Boston, Boston, USA

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  • Generates conversations in the fields of postcolonial international relations; political, economic, and security studies; as well as informing the fields of foreign policy analysis and the study of international organizations.

Part of the book series: Contemporary African Political Economy (CONTAPE)

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Table of contents (25 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiv
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  2. Introduction

    • Jason Warner
    Pages 1-15

  3. African Foreign Policies in African International Institutions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17
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    2. An Ambivalence to the Norm Cycle: The African Union’s “New” Approach to Continental Peace and Security

      • Jide Martyns Okeke
      Pages 19-32

    3. The AU and Continental Foreign Economic Policymaking in Africa: Institutions and Dialectics on Integration in the Global Economy

      • Kwame Akonor
      Pages 33-47

    4. The Troubled Socialising Agent: Democratic Governance and the African Union’s Quest to Become an Independent Foreign Policy Actor

      • Chris Landsberg
      Pages 49-61

    5. Beyond the Collective: The Comparative Strategic Utility of the African Union and RECs in Individual National Security Pursuits

      • Jason Warner
      Pages 63-77

    6. The Role of African Regional Organizations in Post-Election Governments of National Unity

      • Alexander Noyes
      Pages 79-93

    7. Nationalism Underpinned by Pan-Regionalism: African Foreign Policies in ECOWAS in An Era of Anti-Globalization

      • Raheemat Momodu
      Pages 95-112

    8. The Intergovernmental Authority on Development: Internal Culture of Foreign Policymaking and Sources of Weaknesses

      • Redie Bereketeab
      Pages 113-125

    9. The Uses (and Abuses) of the Economic Community of Central African States: The Hidden Functions of Regional Economic Community Membership for African Regimes

      • Graham Palmateer, John F. Clark
      Pages 127-148

    10. The Instrumentalisation of SADC to Achieve Foreign Policy Agendas

      • Tim Murithi
      Pages 149-162

  4. African Foreign Policies in Global International Instituions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 163-163
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    2. Partnering for Peace: United Nations and African Union Cooperation in Peace and Security

      • Colin Stewart, Line Holmung Andersen
      Pages 165-181

    3. African Agency and the World Bank in the Twenty-First Century

      • Karelle Samuda
      Pages 183-198

    4. South Africa’s Foreign Policy and the International Criminal Court: Of African Lessons, Security Council Reform, and Possibilities for an Improved ICC

      • Max Du Plessis, Christopher Gevers
      Pages 199-214

    5. The International Labor Organization and African States: Internationalizing States and Dispersed Foreign Policy

      • Nick Bernards
      Pages 215-228

    6. Global Humanitarian Organizations and African Goals: The Case of Médecins Sans Frontières in South Africa

      • Jessica L. Anderson
      Pages 229-244

  5. Country Case Studies of African Foreign Policies in International Institutions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 245-245
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    2. Consistency in Inconsistency: South Africa’s Foreign Policies in International Organizations

      • John Akokpari
      Pages 247-264
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About this book

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.


Editors and Affiliations

  • United States Military Academy, West Point, USA

    Jason Warner

  • University of Massachusetts-Boston, Boston, USA

    Timothy M. Shaw

About the editors

Jason Warner is Assistant Professor at the U.S. Military Academy, West Point, New York, and an Associate of the Combating Terrorism Center, where he serves as director of the Africa research profile. His research interests include African international relations, international organizations, and security issues in Africa.  

Timothy M. Shaw is Visiting Professor in PhD in Global Governance and Human Security at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA, and Emeritus Professor at the University of London, UK. He has edited the International Political Economy series for Palgrave Macmillan for more than 35 years.

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