African engagements
Subtitle: Africa negotiating an emerging multipolar world
By: edited by Ton Dietz ... [et al.].
Series: Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies -- v. 7; African-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies (Series) -- v. 7.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 389
ISBN-13: 9789004209886
Subjects: Politics and government; Globalization; International economic relations; Foreign relations; Economic conditions; Foreign economic relations; Self-determination, National
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: African engagements: on whose terms? Africa negotiating an emerging multipolar world / Ton Dietz, Kjell Havnevik, Mayke Kaag & Terje Oestigaard; title: Trends in transnational political engagement in Africa: the promises of NEPAD / Samuel Teshale Derbe; title: Political topographies of private security in sub-Saharan Africa / Peer Schouten; title: The neoliberalisation of nature in Africa / Bram Buscher; title: Foreign land acquisitions in Madagascar: competing jurisdiction of access claims / Sandra Evers, Perrine Burnod, Andrianirina Ratsialonana Rivo & Andre Teyssier; title: Mobilising Brazil as 'significant other' in the fight for HIV/AIDS treatment in South Africa: the treatment action campaign (TAC) and its global allies / Wiebe Nauta; title: Beyond negotiating a multipolar world: Sudan's non-Western development cooperation alternative / Mohamed Salih; title: How does the Chinese involvement in the African continent affect African sovereignty in the context of the changing nature of power? / Sanne van der Lugt; title: China into Africa: conflict or the triumph of Western order? / Gorm Rye Olsen; title: Railway time: technology transfer and the role of Chinese experts in the history of Tazara / Liu Haifang & Jamie Monson; title: China-Africa relations: the relevance of strategic engagement of African society organisations with China / Antony Otieno Ong'ayo; title: New topographies of power? Africa negotiating an emerging multipolar world / Simona Vittorini & David Harris; title: The Obama administration's engagements in Africa within historical context: great expectations versus daunting challenges / Peter J. Schraeder; title: Public policy formation in Africa in the wake of the global financial meltdown: building blocks for a new mind in a multipolar world / Lloyd G.A. Amoah; title: Aligning and harnessing the gains of globalisation to an African advantage: towards 'glo-fricanisation' / Lawrence Ogbo Ugwuanyi; title: Africa in the world: a historical view / Stephen Ellis.