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Title African engagements : Africa negotiating an emerging multipolar world / edited by Ton Dietz [and others].

Publication Info. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011.

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Description 1 online resource (389 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies ; v. 7
African-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies (Series) ; v. 7.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents African engagements: on whose terms? Africa negotiating an emerging multipolar world / Ton Dietz, Kjell Havnevik, Mayke Kaag & Terje Oestigaard -- Trends in transnational political engagement in Africa: the promises of NEPAD / Samuel Teshale Derbe -- Political topographies of private security in sub-Saharan Africa / Peer Schouten -- The neoliberalisation of nature in Africa / Bram Buscher -- Foreign land acquisitions in Madagascar: competing jurisdiction of access claims / Sandra Evers, Perrine Burnod, Andrianirina Ratsialonana Rivo & Andre Teyssier -- Mobilising Brazil as 'significant other' in the fight for HIV/AIDS treatment in South Africa: the treatment action campaign (TAC) and its global allies / Wiebe Nauta -- Beyond negotiating a multipolar world: Sudan's non-Western development cooperation alternative / Mohamed Salih -- How does the Chinese involvement in the African continent affect African sovereignty in the context of the changing nature of power? / Sanne van der Lugt -- China into Africa: conflict or the triumph of Western order? / Gorm Rye Olsen -- Railway time: technology transfer and the role of Chinese experts in the history of Tazara / Liu Haifang & Jamie Monson -- China-Africa relations: the relevance of strategic engagement of African society organisations with China / Antony Otieno Ong'ayo -- New topographies of power? Africa negotiating an emerging multipolar world / Simona Vittorini & David Harris -- The Obama administration's engagements in Africa within historical context: great expectations versus daunting challenges / Peter J. Schraeder -- Public policy formation in Africa in the wake of the global financial meltdown: building blocks for a new mind in a multipolar world / Lloyd G.A. Amoah -- Aligning and harnessing the gains of globalisation to an African advantage: towards 'glo-fricanisation' / Lawrence Ogbo Ugwuanyi -- Africa in the world: a historical view / Stephen Ellis.
Summary With the end of the Cold War, the world seemed to move from a bipolar to a unipolar system, with the neoliberal West globally imposing its laws. However, it has been acknowledged that other actors, such as China, India and Brazil, have become increasingly influential, helping to lead to a new multipolarity at the global level. The question of what this emerging multipolarity means for Africa is important. Will Africa become crushed in a mounting struggle over raw materials and political hegemony between superpowers and fall victim to a new scramble for Africa? Or does this new historic conjunc.
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Subject Africa -- Foreign relations -- 1960-
Africa.
International relations.
Chronological Term 1960-
Subject Self-determination, National -- Africa.
Self-determination, National.
Africa -- Politics and government -- 1960-
Politics and government.
Africa -- Foreign economic relations.
International economic relations.
Africa -- Economic conditions -- 1960-
Economic conditions.
Globalization -- Africa.
Globalization.
International economic relations.
Chronological Term Since 1960
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Dietz, Ton.
Other Form: Print version: African engagements. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011 9789004209886 (DLC) 2011018144 (OCoLC)723142293
ISBN 9789004211377 (electronic book)
9004211373 (electronic book)
1283162083
9781283162081
9789004209886
9004209883
Standard No. 9786613162083