TY  - BOOK
AU  - Young,Tom
TI  - Readings in the International Relations of Africa
T2  - Readings in African Studies
SN  - 9780253018946
AV  - DT30.5.R435 2016 
U1  - 960.33 
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Bloomington
PB  - Indiana University Press
KW  - Africa - Politics and government - 21st century
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Cover -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- NOTE ON ORIGINAL SOURCES -- Introduction -- Part I. Sovereignty and Statehood -- Introduction -- 1. Independence by Right -- 2. Regimes of Sovereignty: International Morality and the African Condition -- 3. The Rise of the State System in Africa -- Part II. Africa and the International Order -- Introduction -- 4. Policy Autonomy and the History of British Aid to Africa -- 5. "Development Is Very Political in Tanzania": Oxfam and the Chunya Integrated Development Programme 1972-76 -- 6. Evolution of the United Nations Anti-Apartheid Regime -- 7. What Next? Selective Genocide in Burundi -- Part III. New States and the Continental Order -- Introduction -- 8. The Scramble for Africa: Inherited Political Boundaries -- 9. The OAU Interventions in Chad: Mission Impossible or Mission Evaded? -- Part IV. Africa and the Great Powers -- Introduction -- 10. French African Policy in Historical Perspective -- 11. Propaganda and Politics -- 12. "Flee! The White Giants are Coming!" The United States, the Mercenaries and the Congo 1964-65 -- 13. The Prospects of Socialism: Ethiopia and the Horn -- Part V. Conflict, War, and Intervention -- Introduction -- 14. Rebel Movements and Proxy Warfare: Uganda, Sudan, and the Congo (1986-99) -- 15. The United Nations in Africa: The Rise of Peacekeeping and the Case of Somalia -- 16. The Liberal Peace Is Neither: Peacebuilding, State Building, and the Reproduction of Conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo -- Part VI. Globalization and a New World Order? -- Introduction -- 17. "A Project to be Realized": Global Liberalism and Contemporary Africa -- 18. Values, Context, and Hybridity: How Can the Insights from the Liberal Peace Critique Literature Be Brought to Bear on the Practices of the UN Peacebuilding Architecture?; 19. Is the EU's Governance "Good?": An Assessment of EU Governance in Its Partnership with ACP States -- 20. Female Circumcision as Female Genital Mutilation: Human Rights or Cultural Imperialism? -- 21. Politics, Anti-politics, International Justice: Language and Power in the Special Court for Sierra Leone -- Part VII. African Renaissance? The African Union and NEPAD -- Introduction -- 22. Explaining the Clash and Accommodation of Interests of Major Actors in the Creation of the African Union -- 23. "Partnership" through Accommodation? African Development Initiatives and Universal Policy Prescriptions -- 24. The Power of Partnerships in Global Governance -- Part VIII. The Return of Geopolitics? -- Introduction -- 25. China, India, Russia, and the United States: The Scramble for African Oil and the Militarization of the Continent -- 26. Towards a Critical Geopolitics of China's Engagement with African Development -- 27. A New Phase in the War on Terror: The Implications of Proxy Intelligence and Western Complicity with State Terrorist Agencies -- LIST OF ORIGINAL SOURCES -- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z
N2  - Questions regarding sovereignty, leading regional actors, conflict and resolution, and the neoliberal African renaissance add to the broad thematic coverage presented in this timely volume
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