Overview
Highlights how the African continent, through a distinct set of international politics, is engaging or challenging the global order
Conceptualizes marginal actors in the world order through the synthesis of existing literatures
Illustrates the presented political strategies through case studies, including African policy on peace and security, international criminal justice, economics, and the COVID-19 pandemic
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
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.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Malte Brosig is Professor in International Relations at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Africa in a Changing Global Order
Book Subtitle: Marginal but Meaningful?
Authors: Malte Brosig
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-75409-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-75408-2Published: 10 August 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-75411-2Published: 11 August 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-75409-9Published: 09 August 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 227
Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations, 12 illustrations in colour
Topics: African Politics, International Relations, Foreign Policy, Development Studies