LEADER 04576nam 22005655 450 001 9910350234603321 005 20210112191410.0 010 $a981-13-3423-4 024 7 $a10.1007/978-981-13-3423-8 035 $a(CKB)4100000007587923 035 $a(DE-He213)978-981-13-3423-8 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5651761 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000007587923 100 $a20190128d2019 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn|008mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aAustralia and Africa$b[electronic resource] $eA New Friend from the South? /$fby Nikola Pijovi? 205 $a1st ed. 2019. 210 1$aSingapore :$cSpringer Singapore :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2019. 215 $a1 online resource (XIX, 187 p. 8 illus.) 225 1 $aAfrica's Global Engagement: Perspectives from Emerging Countries 311 $a981-13-3422-6 327 $aIntroduction -- Section 1 Australia?s historical engagement with Africa -- Chapter 1 Colonials or Liberators? Early Australians in Africa -- Chapter 2 White Australia meets a decolonizing Africa -- Chapter 3 A new approach? -- Chapter 4 Brokering independence for Zimbabwe -- Chapter 5 The end of an Era -- Section 2 Australia?s contemporary engagement with Africa -- Chapter 6 The post-Cold War ?Decline of Africa? -- Chapter 7 John Howard?s African paradox: It?s all about the Commonwealth -- Chapter 8 The millennial ?Rise of Africa? -- Chapter 9 ?New Engagement? with Africa -- Chapter 10 Retreat from Africa? -- Chapter 11 Conclusion: The future of Australia and Africa. 330 $aThis book offers analysis of Australia?s engagement with Africa, as well as the country?s rather unique status as a ?new? actor and emerging country in Africa. With its empirical originality and comparative contribution, the book fills a gap in both the study of Africa?s global engagement with emerging countries, and in connection with Australia?s largely unknown engagement with African states. Australia has presented itself as Africa?s ?friend from the south,? without any colonial baggage, and is interested in a long-term partnership for trade and development. In this context, Australia is only one of many ?new? players seeking more intensive engagement with Africa since the end of the Cold War. At its core, the book argues that because of its largely unacknowledged ?flawed? historical engagement with Africa, as well as the political partisanship driving its fickle and volatile contemporary engagement with the continent, Australia suffers from an inability to assess its strategic and long-term interests ? i.e., it doesn?t know what it wants in or from Africa. This makes Australia a rather unique emerging player in Africa: while other 'new' actors' engagement with Africa is generally strategic, and driven to a large extent by a desire to secure resources and counter the influence of geopolitical rivals, Australia?s efforts with regard to Africa are more episodic and not about acquiring resources or countering its rivals. Hence, while immigration, globalization, trade, terrorism, and climate change continue to bring Africa and Australia closer together, Australia?s failure to understand its own interests continues to hamper its engagement with Africa. 410 0$aAfrica's Global Engagement: Perspectives from Emerging Countries 606 $aAfrica-Politics and government 606 $aInternational relations 606 $aPolitical economy 606 $aAsia-Politics and government 606 $aAfrican Politics$3http://scigraph.springernature.com/things/product-market-codes/911090 606 $aForeign Policy$3http://scigraph.springernature.com/things/product-market-codes/912040 606 $aInternational Political Economy$3http://scigraph.springernature.com/things/product-market-codes/912140 606 $aAsian Politics$3http://scigraph.springernature.com/things/product-market-codes/911110 615 0$aAfrica-Politics and government. 615 0$aInternational relations. 615 0$aPolitical economy. 615 0$aAsia-Politics and government. 615 14$aAfrican Politics. 615 24$aForeign Policy. 615 24$aInternational Political Economy. 615 24$aAsian Politics. 676 $a320.96 700 $aPijovi?$b Nikola$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01059578 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910350234603321 996 $aAustralia and Africa$92507078 997 $aUNINA