Africa Consensus

New Interests, Initiatives, and Partners
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-1-4214-1415-7
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 400 Seiten, Format (B × H): 149 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 558 g

Africans are dispensing with policymaking built on old decolonization grudges, adopting instead a multilateral approach to rebuild governance: the African Consensus.

In the past, the world scrambled for Africa to win slaves, territory, and resources. Today, the world scrambles with Africa to do business in global markets. In Africa Consensus: New Interests, Initiatives, and Partners, Ludger Kühnhardt argues that new African politics, African regional institutions, and global demand for partnerships for trade and security will lead the continent to new relationships with the United States, the European Union, China, India, Brazil, and other emerging economies.

Kühnhardt reviews the history of Africa’s international status and employs the rising African Union’s own identified “intervention areas”—peace and security; development, integration, and cooperation; shared values; and institution- and capacity-building—to analyze challenges and possibilities.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kühnhardt, Ludger

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Tables and Figures
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction: From Scramble to Partnership—The Changing Place of Africa in World Affairs
1. The Global Turn and Its Meaning for Africa
2. Past Scrambles for Africa: Lessons Learned
3. A New African Beginning
4. Strategic Pillar: Peace and Security
5. Strategic Pillar: Development, Integration, and Cooperation
6. Strategic Pillar: Shared Values
7. Strategic Pillar: Institution-Building and Capacity-Building
8. Africa Consensus: A New Compact for a Common Age
About the Author
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Kühnhardt, Ludger
Ludger Kühnhardt is director of the Center for European Integration Studies and a professor of political science at Bonn University. He was a public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center in 2012.

Ludger Kühnhardt is director of the Center for European Integration Studies and a professor of political science at Bonn University. He was a public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center in 2012.