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Record Nr.

UNINA9910495212003321

Autore

Brosig Malte

Titolo

Africa in a Changing Global Order : Marginal but Meaningful? / / by Malte Brosig

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2021

ISBN

9783030754099

303075409X

Edizione

[1st ed. 2021.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (234 pages)

Disciplina

327.6

Soggetti

Africa - Politics and government

International relations

Economic development

African Politics

International Relations

Foreign Policy

Development Studies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

1.The Global Order Debate and Africa -- 2.Conceptualising Marginality: Africa’s Place in the Global Order -- 3.The African Security Regime Complex: Innovation in a Decentered Global Order Expert Interview: Gilbert Khadiagala -- 4.International Criminal Justice as Normative Order: Africa and the ICC Expert Interview: Navi Pillay -- 5.Economics Expert Interview: Carlos Lopes -- 6.COVID-19 and Global Order Expert Interview: Richard Mihigo -- 7.Conclusion Marginal but Meaningful: Analysing Africa’s role in Global Order.

Sommario/riassunto

This book focuses on marginal actors in the global order. Such a perspective is often missing as global order analysis is often biased towards exploring large powerful actors and equating their relations with global order. Such an approach is not only dated but also analytically incomplete. It is because of the increasingly decentred nature of global order, that marginal actors and their relations, tactics, strategies and approaches matter for global order as they matter for



these actors. The book starts by providing an analytical framework exploring different policy options for African agency which are located along a nexus of choices ranging from accommodation, engagement to system transformation. The selection of a particular interaction type is argued to be dependent on external opportunity structures in the form of different global orders reaching from competitive polarity to dispersed forms of authority or even non-polarity. In addition to these external conditions, the ability to generate meaningful African agency facilitates a greater role in global order. Empirically, the book covers four policy fields which are peace and security, international criminal justice, economics and trade and COVID-19. Malte Brosig is Associate Professor in International Relations at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.