Africa's Challenge To International Relations Theory (International Political Economy)

✍ Scribed by Kevin C. Dunn, Timothy M. Shaw

• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 259
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Africa has been noticeably absent in international relations theory. This new collection of essays by contemporary Africanists convincingly demonstrates the importance of the continent to every theoretical approach in international relations. The book breaks new ground in how we think about both international relations and Africa, re-examining such foundational concepts as sovereignty, the state, and power; critically investigating the salience of realism, neo-liberalism, liberalism in Africa, and providing new thinking about regionalism, security, and identity.

✦ Table of Contents

Preliminaries......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
Foreword by Craig N. Murphy......Page 10
List of Abbreviations......Page 13
Notes on the Contributors......Page 15
Map of Africa......Page 17
1 Introduction......Page 18
2 Reformulating International Relations Theory......Page 28
3 Sovereignty in Africa......Page 46
4 MadLib #32......Page 63
5 Marketing the `Rainbow Nation'......Page 81
6 Realism, Neo-Realism and Africa's International Relations in the Post-Cold War Era......Page 102
7 The End of History?......Page 120
8 Re-envisioning Sovereignty......Page 129
9 Controlling African States' Behavior......Page 146
10 Challenging Westphalia......Page 163
11 The Brothers Grim......Page 180
12 Reconceptualizing US Foreign Policy......Page 202
13 African Foreign Policy in the New Millennium......Page 221
Bibliography......Page 237
Index......Page 256