Africa and International Relations in the 21st Century / International Political Economy Series (PDF)

Rita Abrahamsen, Associate Professor at the School of International Development and Global Studies and in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Ottawa, Canada Ulf Engel, Professor at the Centre for African Studies and Director of Global and European Studies Institute, University of Leipzig, Germany Loren B. Landau, Professor Director of the African Centre for Migration and Society (ACMS) (formerly Forced Migration Studies Programme, FMSP) at Wits University, Johannesburg, South Africa Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gathseni, Senior Researcher at the South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA), University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa Cyril I. Obi, Programme Coordinator at the Nordic Africa Institute (NAI), Uppsala, Sweden Gorm Rye Olsen, Head of the Department of Society and Globalisation, Roskilde University, Denmark Jane L. Parpart, Visiting Professor and Graduate Coordinator at the Institute for Gender and Development Studies, University of West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago Karen Smith, Senior Lecturer at the Department of Political Studies, University of Cape Town, South Africa Lisa Thompson, Director of the African Centre for Citizenship and Democracy at the School of Government, University of the Western Cape, South Africa Thomas Kwasi Tieku, Director of African Studies at the University of Toronto, Canada Darshan Vigneswaran, Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Ethnic and Religious Diversity, Göttingen, Germany Louise Wiuff Moe, Ph.D. candidate at the Australian Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Queensland, Australia.

"Africa and International Relations in the 21st Century is a must read resource for graduate students in political science, public administration and international business administration." - George Allan Phiri, Institute of Research, Development and Training, African Studies Quarterly

"This book explodes the myth that Africa is peripheral to International Relations theory. Through richly insightful analyses of governance and security in Africa, the authors establish that informal loci of authority, transnational complexes and non-state security arrangements challenge mainstream IR's insistent focus on the state as the primary unit of analysis. This volume should be required reading for scholars, students and policymakers who are interested in current debates on sovereignty and statehood, as well as in Africa's role in the changing global economy." Sandra Maclean, Simon Fraser University, Canada

"This is a very timely and invaluable contribution that advances our understanding of Africa's unanticipated "second chance" in the post bi-polar era and second decade of the 21st century. The volume intricately weaves critical perspectives on power, sovereignty, conflict, peace, and Africa's changing social dynamics together to create a seamless treatise of compelling scholarship. For anyone interested in African international relations, this is a must read." - Kobena T. Hanson, African Capacity Building Foundation, Zimbabwe

"As Jean-François Bayart's L'Etat en Afrique challenged statehood in Africa in the 1980s , Africa and International Relations in the 21st Century defeats conventional precepts of authority, sovereignty and security in Africa and beyond. It pictures a hybrid political order of state and non-state governance, with new state-civil society relationships and instructive informal dimensions of regional integration. It powerfully illustrates how authority is nowadays reterritorialized from below, reconstructing even the state."