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African foreign policies : selecting signifiers to explain agency
Title
African foreign policies : selecting signifiers to explain agency / edited by Paul-Henri Bischoff.
ISBN
0429328230
1000048330
1000048357
1000048373
9780429328237
9781000048339
9781000048353
9781000048377
9780367348281
Publication
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.
Copyright Notice Date
©2020
Physical Description
1 online resource (xix, 267 pages).
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Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 26, 2020).
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Biographical / Historical Note
Paul-Henri Bischoff is Professor of International Relations and erstwhile longstanding Head of Department of Political and International Studies at Rhodes University, Grahamstown-Makhanda, South Africa.
Summary
"This book explores, at a time when several powers have become serious players on the continent, aspects of African agency, past and present, by African writers on foreign policy, representative of geography, language and state size. In the past, African foreign policy has largely been considered within the context of reactions to the international or global 'external factor'. This ground-breaking book, however, looks at how foreign policy has been crafted and used in response not just to external, but also, mainly, domestic imperatives or (theoretical) signifiers. As such, it narrates individual and changing foreign policy orientations over time - and as far back as independence - with mainly African-based scholars who present their own constructs of what is a useful theoretical narrative regarding foreign policy on the continent - how theory is adapted to local circumstance or substituted for continentally based ontologies. The book therefore contends that the African experience carries valuable import for expanding general understandings of foreign policy in general. This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of Foreign Policy Analysis, Foreign Policy Studies, African International Relations/Politics/Studies, Diplomacy and more broadly to International Relations"-- Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
Taylor & Francis. EBA 2024-2025.
Other formats
Print version: African foreign policies New York : Routledge, 2020.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 04, 2024
Series
Routledge studies in African politics and international relations
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction / Paul-Henri Bischoff
What Next? Past and present African foreign policy concepts and practices / Paul-Henri Bischoff
The African Union as a Foreign Policy Player: African Agency in International Cooperation / Tshepo Gwatiwa
Unprincipled Pragmatism and Anti-Imperialist Impulses in an Interconnected World: The Zuma Presidency, 2009-2017 / Mzukisi Qobo
Towards A Strategic Culture Approach to Understanding and Conceptualising Ethiopia's Foreign Policy Towards Israel and the Middle Eastern Arab Countries / Makonnen Tesfaye
Nigeria's Foreign Policy and Intervention Behaviour in Africa: What Role for Agency? / Olumuyiwa Amao
Zimbabwe and New Signifiers: Towards a cultural political economy of Foreign Policy Making / Mike Mavura
Realist Conceptions of Kenya's Foreign Policy and Foreign Policy Behaviour: A Theoretical and Contextual Disposition / Korwa Gombe Adar and Mercy Kathambi Kaburu
Addressing the Conceptual Void of African Small State Foreign Policy in Orthodox Theory: A Case Study of Botswana's Principled Pragmatism / Kabelo M. Mahupela
Tunisia's Foreign Policy Towards France Before and After an Undemanding 'Revolution': A Theoretical Explanation of the An-Nahdha-led Interim Governments' Soft Policy / Ahmed Ali Salem
Straddling Between Convergence and Divergence: A Constructivist's View of Malawi's Foreign Policy in Post-independence Africa / Eugenio Njoloma
Strategies of a Small State Between Realism and Liberalism: Sixty Years of Guinea's Diplomacy and Foreign Policy (1958-2018) / Issaka K. Souaré
Rethinking SADC's Collective Policymaking Processes on External Relations and Non-state Participation for Region-building / Cecilia Lwiindi Nedziwe
Towards an Understanding of the Interplay Between Ghana's Foreign and Defence Policies / Kwesi Aning and Kwaku Danso
Conclusion / Paul-Henri Bischoff.
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