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Africa and Globalization : Challenges of Governance and Creativity / / edited by Toyin Falola, Kenneth Kalu
Africa and Globalization : Challenges of Governance and Creativity / / edited by Toyin Falola, Kenneth Kalu
Edizione [1st ed. 2018.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (261 pages)
Disciplina 337.16
Collana African Histories and Modernities
Soggetto topico Africa—History
Ethnology—Africa
Africa—Politics and government
Economic development
African History
African Culture
African Politics
Development Studies
ISBN 3-319-74905-6
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto 1. Introduction: Africa in a Globalized World -- I. Africa's Adaptation to Globalization -- 2. The Rediscovery of Africa -- 3. Globalization and the Creative Space in Africa: Implications for Governance and Development -- 4. Postcolonial Africa's Development Trajectories -- 5. Collective Social Action: Enlightenment Ethic and the Rise of Modern Individualism -- 6. Same Migrants, Two Business Models: Culture-centered and Non-traditional Businesses Established by Ethiopians and Eritreans in Washington D.C -- 7. Making Sense of South Africa's Soft Power: Projections, Prospects, and Possibilities -- II. Governance and Creativity -- 8. Developmental Strategies and Cultural Dynamics in Rural Nigeria -- 9. The Impossible Craft of Nation-Building in Postcolonial Cameroon -- 10. Creativity and New Technologies: Piracy, Politics, and the Business of Cultural Production in Nigeria -- 11. Igbo Community Policing and its Relevance for Contemporary Nigeria -- 12. "Come and Chop": Representations of the Parliamentarian in Ola Rotimi's If and Emeka Nwabueze's A Parliament of Vultures.
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Africa and the World : Bilateral and Multilateral International Diplomacy / / edited by Dawn Nagar, Charles Mutasa
Africa and the World : Bilateral and Multilateral International Diplomacy / / edited by Dawn Nagar, Charles Mutasa
Edizione [1st ed. 2018.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (XXXV, 520 p.) : ill
Disciplina 320.96
Soggetto topico Africa—Politics and government
International relations
Security, International
Diplomacy
Comparative government
African Politics
Foreign Policy
International Security Studies
International Relations Theory
Comparative Politics
ISBN 3-319-62590-X
Classificazione 08.08.08
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto 1. Introduction: Inspirations and Hesitations in Africa’s Relations with External Actors -- 2. Africa and the United Stater: A History of Malign Neglect -- 3. Africa and Russia: The Pursuit of Strengthened Relations in the Post-Cold War Era -- 4. Africa and China: Winding Into A Community Of Common Destiny -- 5. France and Africa -- 6. To Brexit and Beyond: Africa and the United Kingdom -- 7. Africa and Portugal -- 8. Africa and Italy’s Relations After the Cold War -- 9. Brazil-Africa Relations: From Boom to Bust? -- 10. A Renewed Partnership? Contemporary Latin America-Africa Engagement -- 11. Africa and India: Riding the Tail of the Tiger? -- 12. Africa-Japan Relations in the Post-Cold War Era -- 13. Africa and the Nordics -- 14. Africa, the Islamic World, and Europe -- 15. Africa and the Middle East: Shifting Alliances and Strategic Partnerships -- 16. Africa at the United Nations: From Dominance to Weakness -- 17. Africa and the International Criminal Court -- 18. Can the BRICS Re-Open the “Gateway to Africa”? South Africa’s Contradictory Facilitation of Divergent Brazilian, Russian, Indian and Chinese Interests -- 19. Europe-Africa Relations in the Era of Uncertainty -- 20. Africa and the World Trade Organisation -- 21. Sub-Saharan Africa: the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund -- 22. Conclusion.
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Africa Beyond Inventions : Essays in Honour of V.Y. Mudimbe / / edited by Zubairu Wai
Africa Beyond Inventions : Essays in Honour of V.Y. Mudimbe / / edited by Zubairu Wai
Edizione [1st ed. 2024.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2024
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (365 pages)
Disciplina 809.896
Soggetto topico International relations
Africa - Politics and government
International Relations Theory
African Politics
ISBN 9783031571206
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto I. Overture -- 1. Resurrecting Mudimbe — Zubairu Wai -- Ii. Discourse Of Otherness- 2. Mudimbe’s Homo Absconditus: Towards A Resurrection Of The Human— Pierre-Philippe Fraiture -- 3. Aesthetic Theologies Of Resemblance, The Production Of Colonial Difference, And Possibilities Of Ethical Translation— Zahir Kolia -- 4. Notions Of Africanity—Sanya Osha -- Iii. Reading The Postcolonial -- 5. Refusing To Vanish: Despair, Contingency, And The African Political—Alírio Karina -- 6. Decolonizing Knowledge In Africa: Mudimbe’s Philosophical Deconstruction Of The Postcolonial Event—Gervais Désiré Yamb- 7. Recreating Knowledge About Africa In The Shadow Of The Colonial Library—Sally Matthews -- 8. The Danse Of Plato And Mudimbe, Or The Relationship Between Plato’s Epistemology And Mudimbe’s Phenomenology—Donatien M. Cicura -- Iv. Sites Of Inscriptions -- 9. The Elusive Mudimbe: A Feminist Journey Through His Novels—Getrude Mianda -- 10. Religion And Theology As Cultural And Political Performance—KaserekaKavwaherehi -- 11. Securitisation And The ‘Weak States’ Concept: A Mudimbean Analysis—Tinashe Jakwa -- V. Finale- 12. Afterword: Letter To V.Y. Mudimbe, On The Euromorphic Practice Of Critique —Zubairu Wai.
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Africa in transformation : economic development in the age of doubt / / by Carlos Lopes
Africa in transformation : economic development in the age of doubt / / by Carlos Lopes
Autore Lopes Carlos
Edizione [1st ed. 2019.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2019
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (xi, 164 pages)
Disciplina 338.96
Soggetto topico Political science
Africa—Politics and government
Economic policy
Economic development
Economics
Development economics
Popular Science in Political Science and International Relations
African Politics
Development Policy
Development and Post-Colonialism
International Political Economy
Development Economics
ISBN 3-030-01291-3
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Chapter 1: Introduction: Reflecting on Africa’s Contemporary Dynamics -- Chapter 2: Changing Politics -- Chapter 3: Respecting Diversity -- Chapter 4: Understanding Policy Space -- Chapter 5: Structural Transformation through Industrialisation -- Chapter 6: Increasing Agricultural Productivity -- Chapter 7: Revisiting the Social Contract -- Chapter 8: Adjusting to Climate Change -- Chapter 9: Inserting Agency in the Relations with China -- Chapter 10: Conclusions.
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Lopes Carlos  
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Africa on the Move : Migration, Translocal Livelihoods and Rural Development in Sub-Saharan Africa / / by Malte Steinbrink, Hannah Niedenführ
Africa on the Move : Migration, Translocal Livelihoods and Rural Development in Sub-Saharan Africa / / by Malte Steinbrink, Hannah Niedenführ
Autore Steinbrink Malte
Edizione [1st ed. 2020.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2020
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (ix, 236 pages) : illustrations
Disciplina 325.67
Collana Springer Geography
Soggetto topico Human geography
Cultural geography
Emigration and immigration
Geography
Economic development
Africa - Politics and government
Africa - Economic conditions
Social and Cultural Geography
Human Migration
Regional Geography
Development Studies
African Politics
African Economics
ISBN 3-030-22841-X
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Introduction -- Time for a Rethink -- Translocal Livelihoods – New Perspectives on Livelihood Research -- Vulnerability and Translocality: Why Livelihoods become Translocal -- Translocal Livelihoods in Sub-Saharan Africa -- Influence of Translocal Livelihoods on Aspects of Rural Structural Transformation -- Conclusion.
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Steinbrink Malte  
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Africa's Engagement with the Responsibility to Protect in the 21st Century / / edited by Nicholas Idris Erameh, Victor Ojakorotu
Africa's Engagement with the Responsibility to Protect in the 21st Century / / edited by Nicholas Idris Erameh, Victor Ojakorotu
Autore Erameh Nicholas Idris
Edizione [1st ed. 2024.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Singapore : , : Springer Nature Singapore : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2024
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (421 pages)
Disciplina 341.584096
Altri autori (Persone) OjakorotuVictor
Collana Africa's Global Engagement: Perspectives from Emerging Countries
Soggetto topico Africa - Politics and government
Human rights
Diplomacy
Politics and war
Peace
African Politics
Politics and Human Rights
Military and Defence Studies
Peace and Conflict Studies
ISBN 981-9981-63-8
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Section I: Philosophical, Theoretical & Historical Overview Of The Responsibility To Protect -- Chapter I: Introduction -- Chapter II: Responsibility-to-Protect and a Tri-dimensional Methodology: Exploring the Epistemic-Morality of an Interventionist -- Chapter III: From Peacekeeping to the Responsibility to Protect: Unpacking the Genealogy and History of the RtoP Doctrine in the International Humanitarian System -- Section II: Theory & Practice Of The Responsibility To Protect In Africa -- Chapter IV: A Critical Reflection of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s Responsibility to Protect Intervention in Libya -- Chapter V: Horizontal Inequality - Armed Violence and the Responsibility to Protect in Africa: The Cote d’Ivoire Experience -- Chapter VI: Insurgency, Responsibility to Protect at the Expense of Local Protection in the Civilian Joint Task Force in the North-Eastern Region of Nigeria -- Chapter VII: The Sahel Region and the Dilemma of Civilian Protection: A Challenge to the Responsibility to Protect -- Chapter VIII: The Anglophone – Cameroon Conflict and the Responsibility to Protect -- Chapter IX: The Responsibility to Protect and International Community Response to the Boko Haram Insurgency in Nigeria -- Chapter X: From Regionalization of Peacekeeping to the Responsibility to Protect in Africa: The Gambia Experience -- Chapter XI: The US Foreign Policy and the Responsibility to Protect in Africa -- Section III: Emerging & contending issues from the pratice of the responsibility to protect in africa -- Chapter XII: The African Union, Responsibility to Protect and the Mantra of African Solutions to African Problems -- Chapter XIII: Implementing the RtoP: Coordinating Approaches Between the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) and the International Criminal Court (ICC) -- Chapter XIV: Peace Enforcement In The Face of International Military Intervention -- Chapter XV: The Media, Armed Conflict, and the Responsibility to Protect -- Chapter XVI: Exploring the Legal Discourse on the Practice of the Responsibility to Protect in Africa -- Chapter XVII: Responsibility to Protect and the Avoidance of the Responsibility: Ending Atrocity Crimes in Northern Nigeria -- Chapter XVIII: Environmental Challenges, Climate Change and the Responsibility to Protect (RtoP) In Africa -- Section IV: Institutionalization, consolidation & prospects of the responsibility to protect in africa -- Chapter XIX: From the Sustainable Development Goal 16 to the African Union's Silencing the Guns Agenda: Why is it so Difficult to Achieve Sustainable Peace and Stability in Africa? -- Chapter XX: Can the Responsibility to Protect Doctrine Act as a Deterrent against Mass Atrocity and Human Rights Infringement in Africa? -- Chapter XXI: The Responsibility to Protect (RtoP): Norm Institutionalization, Issues, and Challenges -- Chapter XXII: Responsibility to Protect: From Contestation to Internationalization.
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Erameh Nicholas Idris  
Singapore : , : Springer Nature Singapore : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2024
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Africa-Europe Research and Innovation Cooperation [[electronic resource] ] : Global Challenges, Bi-regional Responses / / edited by Andrew Cherry, James Haselip, Gerard Ralphs, Isabella E. Wagner
Africa-Europe Research and Innovation Cooperation [[electronic resource] ] : Global Challenges, Bi-regional Responses / / edited by Andrew Cherry, James Haselip, Gerard Ralphs, Isabella E. Wagner
Autore Cherry Andrew
Edizione [1st ed. 2018.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Basingstoke, : Springer Nature, 2018
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (XXXI, 147 p. 16 illus. in color.)
Disciplina 320.94
Soggetto topico International organization
European Politics
African Politics
International Organization
Soggetto non controllato Africa
EU
Cooperation
Policy
Partnership
Agriculture
Climate Change
Science
Development
Evidence-based policy
Networks
funding
Engagement
ISBN 3-319-69929-6
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Introduction -- PART 1. POLITICS, POLICIES AND PROGRAMMES -- Chapter 1. The politics and drivers underpinning Africa-Europe research and innovation cooperation -- Chapter 2. Policy frameworks supporting Africa-Europe STI cooperation: Past achievements and future responsibilities -- PART 2. COOPERATION IN FOOD SECURITY, CLIMATE CHANGE AND HEALTH -- Chapter 3. The dynamics of EU-Africa research and innovation cooperation programmes -- Chapter 4. Bi-regional scientific cooperation on food- and nutrition security and sustainable agriculture -- Chapter 5. Africa-Europe collaborations for climate change research and innovation: What difference have they made? -- Chapter 6. Equality in health research cooperation between Africa and Europe – the potential of the Research Fairness Initiative -- PART 3. FUTURES OF AFRICA-EUROPE RESEARCH AND INNOVATION COOPERATION -- Chapter 7| Towards better joint work: Reflections on partnership effectiveness.
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Cherry Andrew  
Basingstoke, : Springer Nature, 2018
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African Foreign Policies in International Institutions / / edited by Jason Warner, Timothy M. Shaw
African Foreign Policies in International Institutions / / edited by Jason Warner, Timothy M. Shaw
Edizione [1st ed. 2018.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (XXIV, 430 p. 3 illus.)
Disciplina 327.1
Collana Contemporary African Political Economy
Soggetto topico International relations
Africa—Politics and government
International organization
Foreign Policy
African Politics
International Organization
ISBN 1-137-57574-3
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto 1. Introduction - Africa Foreign Policies and International Organizations:The View from the 21st Century -- 2. An Ambivalence to the Norm-Cycle: The African Union's "New" Approach to Continental Peace and Security -- 3. The AU and Continental Foreign Economic Policy Making in Africa: Institutions and Dialectics on Integration in the Global Economy -- 4. The Troubled Socialising Agent: Democratic Governance and the African Union’s Quest to Become an Independent Foreign Policy Actor -- 5. Beyond the Collective: Comparative Strategic Utility of the African Union and the RECs in Pursuing Individual National Security Foreign Policy Goals -- 6. The Role of African Regional Organizations in Post-Election Governments of National Unity -- 7. Nationalism Underpinned by Pan-Regionalism: African Foreign Policies in ECOWAS in Era of Anti-Globalization -- 8. The Intergovernmental Authority on Development: Internal Culture of Foreign Policymaking and Sources of Weaknesses -- 9. The Uses (and Abuses) of the Economic Community of Central African States: The Hidden Functions of Regional Economic Community Membership for African Regimes -- 10. The Instrumentalization of SADC to Achieve Foreign Policy Agendas -- 11. Partnering for Peace: United Nations and African Union Collaboration in Peace and Security -- 12. South Africa's Foreign Policy and the International Criminal Court: Of African Lessons, Security Council Reform, and Possiblities for an Improved ICC -- 13. The International Labor Organization and African States: Internationalizing States and Dispersed Foreign Policy -- 14. African Agency and the World Bank in the 21st Century -- 15. Global Humanitarian Organizations and African Goals: The Case of MSF in South Africa -- 16. Consistency in Inconsistency: South Africa’s Foreign Policies in International Organizations -- 17. Leverage in a Tight Space: Zimbabwean Foreign Policy in International Organizations -- 18. Angola’s Measured Distance from International Organizations -- 19. Decolonizing Intenational Relations: Insights From the International Financial Institutions in the Congo During the Cold War -- 20. Nigeria’s Foreign Policy in Relation to the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) -- 21. Senegalese Foreign Policy and International Institutions: Leadership Through Soft Power from Senghor to Sall -- 22. Don’t think Cameroon is Timid in International Organizations(ios), it is only a Strategic Approach for achieving its Foreign Policy Goals in Foreign Relations -- 23. Regional Powers, Great Power Allies, and International Institutions: The Case of Ethiopia -- 24. Djiboutian’s Foreign Policy in International Institutions: Small State, Big Diplomacy -- 25. Conclusion – African Foreign Policies, International Institutions, and the Future of Global Governance.
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African Indigenous Financial Institutions : The Case of Congo and Liberia / / by Julia Smith-Omomo
African Indigenous Financial Institutions : The Case of Congo and Liberia / / by Julia Smith-Omomo
Autore Smith-Omomo Julia
Edizione [1st ed. 2019.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2019
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (186 pages)
Disciplina 332.109689405
Soggetto topico Economic development
Social change
Africa—Politics and government
Economic development projects—Finance
Peace
Terrorism
Political violence
Development and Social Change
African Politics
Development Finance
Conflict Studies
Terrorism and Political Violence
ISBN 3-319-98011-4
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto 1. Chapter 1 Introduction -- 2. Chapter 2 Certainty Premiums and Cognitive Loads -- 3. Chapter 3 Monrovia Burning. 4. Chapter 4 Shadows are Weaker -- 5. Chapter 5 What’s War got to Do with this? -- 6. Chapter 6 Is Microfinance by Itself Transformative in Post-Conflict Contexts? -- 7. Chapter 7 Social behavioural Changes -- 8. Chapter 8 Stress Limits and Sparse Networks -- 9. Chapter 9 No Easy Answers.
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Smith-Omomo Julia  
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African Parliaments [[electronic resource] ] : Between Governance and Government / / edited by M. Salih
African Parliaments [[electronic resource] ] : Between Governance and Government / / edited by M. Salih
Edizione [1st ed. 2005.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2005
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (305 p.)
Disciplina 320.96
Altri autori (Persone) SalihMohamed Abdel Rahim M (Mohamed Abdel Rahim Mohamed)
Soggetto topico Africa - Politics and government
Africa - History
Political science
African Politics
African History
Political Science
ISBN 1-281-36455-X
9786611364557
1-4039-7704-6
1-4039-7930-8
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto ""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""List of Figures and Tables""; ""List of Abbreviations and Acronyms""; ""Notes on Contributors""; ""Preface""; ""PART I""; ""1 Introduction: The Changing Governance Role of African Parliaments""; ""2 Parliaments, Politics, and Governance: African Democracies in Comparative Perspective""; ""3 Legislative Quotas for Women: Implications for Governance in Africa""; ""4 Local Assemblies and Local Democracy in sub-Saharan Africa""; ""5 Citizen's Support for Legislature and Democratic Consolidation: A Comparative Study with Special Focus on Mali""; ""PART II""
""6 Evolution of Parliament Executive Relations in Zambia""""7 Longitudinal View on Ghana's Parliamentary Practices""; ""8 People, Party, Politics, and Parliament: Government and Governance in Namibia""; ""9 Parliament and Dominant Party System in Ethiopia""; ""10 Parliament as Machinery for Political System Control: The Inner Workings of Bunge, Tanzania""; ""11 A Decade of Legislature Executive Squabble in Malawi, 1994-2004""; ""12 The South African Parliament's Failed Moment""; ""13 Conclusions""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index"";
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