African Foreign Policies in International Institutions

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.

Auteur
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.

Contenu

1. Introduction - Africa Foreign Policies and International Organizations:The View from the 21st Century.- 2. An Ambivalence to the Norm-Cycle: The African Union's "New" Approach to Continental Peace and Security.- 3. The AU and Continental Foreign Economic Policy Making in Africa: Institutions and Dialectics on Integration in the Global Economy.- 4. The Troubled Socialising Agent: Democratic Governance and the African Union's Quest to Become an Independent Foreign Policy Actor.- 5. Beyond the Collective: Comparative Strategic Utility of the African Union and the RECs in Pursuing Individual National Security Foreign Policy Goals.- 6. The Role of African Regional Organizations in Post-Election Governments of National Unity.- 7. Nationalism Underpinned by Pan-Regionalism: African Foreign Policies in ECOWAS in Era of Anti-Globalization.- 8. The Intergovernmental Authority on Development: Internal Culture of Foreign Policymaking and Sources of Weaknesses.- 9. The Uses (and Abuses) of the Economic Community of Central African States: The Hidden Functions of Regional Economic Community Membership for African Regimes.- 10. The Instrumentalization of SADC to Achieve Foreign Policy Agendas.- 11. Partnering for Peace: United Nations and African Union Collaboration in Peace and Security.- 12. South Africa's Foreign Policy and the International Criminal Court: Of African Lessons, Security Council Reform, and Possiblities for an Improved ICC.- 13. The International Labor Organization and African States: Internationalizing States and Dispersed Foreign Policy.- 14. African Agency and the World Bank in the 21st Century.- 15. Global Humanitarian Organizations and African Goals: The Case of MSF in South Africa.- 16. Consistency in Inconsistency: South Africa's Foreign Policies in International Organizations.- 17. Leverage in a Tight Space: Zimbabwean Foreign Policy in International Organizations.- 18. Angola'sMeasured Distance from International Organizations.- 19. Decolonizing Intenational Relations: Insights From the International Financial Institutions in the Congo During the Cold War.- 20. Nigeria's Foreign Policy in Relation to the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).- 21. Senegalese Foreign Policy and International Institutions: Leadership Through Soft Power from Senghor to Sall.- 22. Don't think Cameroon is Timid in International Organizations(ios), it is only a Strategic Approach for achieving its Foreign Policy Goals in Foreign Relations.- 23. Regional Powers, Great Power Allies, and International Institutions: The Case of Ethiopia.- 24. Djiboutian's Foreign Policy in International Institutions: Small State, Big Diplomacy.- 25. Conclusion African Foreign Policies, International Institutions, and the Future of Global Governance.