1.

Record Nr.

UNIPARTHENOPE000005645

Autore

O' Connor, Patrick

Titolo

Practical reliability engineering / Patrick D. T. O' Connor ; with David Netwon, Richard Bromley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chichester : John Wiley & Sons, c2002

ISBN

0-470-84463-9

Edizione

[4. ed.]

Descrizione fisica

XXVI, 513 p. ; 24 cm

Disciplina

620.00452

Collocazione

P1 620-P/1

P1 620-P/3

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910522926803321

Autore

Gwatiwa Tshepo

Titolo

The African Union and African Agency in International Politics / / by Tshepo Gwatiwa

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2022

ISBN

9783030878054

3030878058

Edizione

[1st ed. 2022.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvii, 223 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Disciplina

327.6

Soggetti

Africa - Politics and government

International relations

Regionalism

Globalization

African Politics

Foreign Policy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes index

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1: Introduction/Theorizing African Agency in International Politics -- Chapter 2: African Agency in Historical Perspective -- Chapter 3: Negotiating Agency in AU Partnerships -- Chapter 4: Agency in the Mission Space -- Chapter 5: Opportunities to Enhance African Agency -- Chapter 6: Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

This book examines the role of the African Union in relation to African agency in international politics. It examines the manner and extent to which the African Union exercises two forms of agency-shirking and slippage-in its strategic and collaborative partnerships. The author focuses on four major AU partnerships with the European Union, NATO, the United Nations and US AFRICOM. The books examines African agency in each partnership by exploring the politics and dynamics of each partnership in different aspects: the multilevel engagement, institutionalization, resource contribution and disbursement, as well as preference linkage. It specifically does that by examining African ownership and leadership in all of these aspects. The book highlights



the role of agency slack as a survival strategy to escape from the AU's subaltern position in international politics. It designates the partnership with the European Union as emblematic of African agency; while the others exhibit different formsof agency slack. Partnerships with NATO and the United Nations exhibit shirking, while that with the US AFRICOM exhibits slippage. Tshepo Gwatiwa is Lecturer in the Department of International Relations at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. He is also a Research Associate at the African Centre for the Study of the United States (ACSUS) at the same university.