LEADER 03734nam 22006495 450 001 9910522926803321 005 20240509024255.0 010 $a9783030878054 010 $a3030878058 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-87805-4 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6825098 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6825098 035 $a(CKB)20106119400041 035 $a(PPN)262055708 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-87805-4 035 $a(EXLCZ)9920106119400041 100 $a20211210d2022 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe African Union and African Agency in International Politics /$fby Tshepo Gwatiwa 205 $a1st ed. 2022. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2022. 215 $a1 online resource (xvii, 223 pages) $cillustrations (some color) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 08$aPrint version: Gwatiwa, Tshepo The African Union and African Agency in International Politics Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2022 9783030878047 320 $aIncludes index 327 $aChapter 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. 330 $aThis 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. 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Classroom Practices -- 8 Classroom Practices of Three Canadian English Teachers -- Part IV Discussion and Conclusions -- 9 Discussion -- 10 Preparing Language Teachers for Intercultural/Global Citizenship Education -- 11 Conclusions. 330 $aThis book has explored in depth the beliefs and practices of foreign language teachers regarding global awareness in the context of a Chinese senior high school. This book defines global awareness as a combination of global knowledge, global attitudes, and global skills for a global citizen to act from the local community to the global community. By analysing qualitative data such as classroom observations, interviews and focus groups with language teachers and linking these findings to language education policy and practice in China, this book has explored how English language teachers teach English language, intercultural communicative competence and global awareness in China. 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