Routledge Studies in African Politics and International Relations
About the Book Series
The African Politics and International Relations series seeks to provide readers with a conceptual and comparative perspective on transformations associated with the rise of Africa in international relations and within the global economy. The series explores the empirical and theoretical implications of the engagement of both old and new players, the redefinition of the continent's politics, socio-economic transitions and changing patterns of region-building, both within Africa and with the global South. The series, through its focus on the reappraisal of the role and conception of African agency, seeks to provide readers with a comprehensive, accessible, and insightful treatment of issues that challenge conventional understandings and representations of Africa.
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Democratic Recession, Autocratic Resurgence and The Future of Governance in Africa
1st Edition
Edited
By Olukayode A. Faleye, Gedion Onyango, Kaderi N. Bukari, Inocent Moyo
November 10, 2025
This book re-examines and contextualizes political developments that have seen African countries make progress in achieving democratic governance over the last two decades alongside their struggle to institutionalize it amidst socioeconomic and political complexities. It provides a comprehensive ...
Power Dynamics in African Forests: The Politics of Global Sustainability
1st Edition
Edited
By Symphorien Ongolo, Max Krott
May 06, 2025
This book addresses historical perspectives and contemporary challenges of the politics of forestland governance and the related sustainability crisis in Africa. It focusses on the power dynamics between key actors involved in the governance of forest-related resources either for their exploitation...
Africa, the EU and the Samoa Agreement: Exploring African Agency Amid the ‘New Scramble’
1st Edition
Edited
By Sophia Price, Mark Langan
March 31, 2025
This edited volume provides a timely and critical analysis of Africa‑EU Relations in the new Samoa Agreement phase of the long‑standing ‘Eurafrican’ relationship. Drawing on a range of critical perspectives and contributions it moves beyond Eurocentric visions of policy co‑operation on development ...
The Genocide in Rwanda in Comparative Perspective: Death and Survival on the Lake Kivu Shore
1st Edition
By Klaus Bachmann
March 31, 2025
This book combines social science concepts, history and transitional justice studies to examine the social dynamics, specific actors and ideologies involved in the genocide in Rwanda and examines what makes this genocide a unique case of mass violence and political transition compared with other ...
The Foreign Policies of East African States
1st Edition
Edited
By Jude Kagoro, Julian Friesinger, Klaus Schlichte
November 26, 2024
This book analyses the foreign policies of African countries, specifically in the region of East Africa. It reveals the regional dynamics and the way in which the international system interacts with these policies and how they are driven by domestic politics versus national visions, and vice versa....
The Rise of a Regional Institution in Africa: Agency and Policy-Formation within the ECOWAS Commission
1st Edition
By Lukas Maximilian Müller
May 27, 2024
This book focuses on the ECOWAS Commission, both as an autonomous actor, as well as a policy-making nexus for its member states and external actors. Drawing from a variety of never-before analyzed sources, unpublished internal documents and over 120 interviews with staff from the ECOWAS Commission...
Personalist Rule in Africa and Other World Regions
1st Edition
By Jeroen J.J. Van den Bosch
May 31, 2023
This book presents an innovative model linking insights from democratization, development and conflict studies to explain personalist behavior and their violent transitions. Based on multiple case studies from Sub Saharan Africa, the author maps and predicts regime transitions, presenting examples...
Spatializing Practices of Regional Organizations during Conflict Intervention: The Politics of ECOWAS and the African Union
1st Edition
By Jens Herpolsheimer
May 31, 2023
This book studies relevant actors and practices of conflict intervention by African regional organizations and their intimate connection to space-making, addressing a major gap regarding what actually happens within and around these organizations. Based on extensive empirical research, it argues ...
The Politics of Peacebuilding in Africa
1st Edition
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By Thomas Kwasi Tieku, Amanda Coffie, Mary Boatemaa Setrana, Akin Taiwo
May 31, 2023
This interdisciplinary book brings together innovative chapters that address the entire spectrum of the African peacebuilding landscape and showcases findings from original studies on peacebuilding. With a range of perspectives, the chapters cover the full gamut of peacebuilding (i.e. the ...
Turkey in Africa: A New Emerging Power?
1st Edition
Edited
By Elem Eyrice Tepeciklioğlu, Ali Onur Tepeciklioğlu
May 31, 2023
This book offers a comprehensive and multi-disciplinary analysis of Turkey-Africa relations. Bringing together renowned authors to discuss various dimensions of Turkey’s African engagement while casting a critical analysis on the sustainability of Turkey-Africa relations, this book draws upon the ...
Regional Economic Communities and Peacebuilding in Africa: Lessons from ECOWAS and IGAD
1st Edition
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By Victor Adetula, Redie Bereketeab, Cyril Obi
August 01, 2022
This book outlines challenges to the effective operation of regional economic communities (RECs) with regards to peacebuilding in Africa. Critically examining these issues from an interdisciplinary perspective, with a focus on comparative analysis of the status, role, and performances of the ...
The Politics of Elite Corruption in Africa: Uganda in Comparative African Perspective
1st Edition
By Roger Tangri, Andrew Mwenda
February 12, 2018
This book considers the causes of high-level state corruption as well as the political constraints of countering corruption in Africa. It examines elite corruption in government as well as in the political and military spheres of state activity, and focuses on illegal behaviour on the part of state...