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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The Finances of Regional Organisations in the Global South: Follow the Money
1st Edition
Edited
By Ulf Engel, Frank Mattheis
December 13, 2021
This book addresses a major gap in the longstanding research on regional organisations: how do their finances work and what do they reveal about the region-building process? It brings together an empirically rich collection of chapters written by experts of regional organisations in Latin America, ...
Human Rights and the Judicialisation of African Politics
1st Edition
By Peter Brett
September 30, 2020
Human Rights and the Judicialisation of African Politics shows readers how central questions in African politics have entered courtrooms over the last three decades, and provides the first transnational explanation for this development. The book begins with three conditions that have made ...
China's Aid to Africa: Does Friendship Really Matter?
1st Edition
By Zhangxi Cheng, Ian Taylor
December 12, 2019
Although China has rapidly increased foreign aid to Africa and is now a relatively major player in the developmental assistance regime, little is still known regarding how China delivers its foreign aid, and even less about how this foreign aid actually works in the recipient countries. This book, ...
Political Trust and the Politics of Security Engagement: China and the European Union in Africa
1st Edition
By Benjamin Barton
December 12, 2019
The EU and China are often characterised as parties whose bilateral political differences still remain too large to bridge, so that they have failed to convert rhetorical promises into tangible results of cooperation, particularly with regards to the field of international security. Yet in terms of...
African Border Disorders: Addressing Transnational Extremist Organizations
1st Edition
Edited
By Olivier J. Walther, William F.S. Miles
March 28, 2019
Since the end of the Cold War, the monopoly of legitimate organized force of many African states has been eroded by a mix of rebel groups, violent extremist organizations, and self-defence militias created in response to the rise in organized violence on the continent. African Border Disorders ...
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...
Regionalism in Africa: Genealogies, institutions and trans-state networks
1st Edition
By Daniel Bach
May 24, 2017
Africa, which was not long ago discarded as a hopeless and irrelevant region, has become a new 'frontier' for global trade, investment and the conduct of international relations. This book surveys the socio-economic, intellectual and security related dimensions of African regionalisms since the ...
Real Governance and Practical Norms in Sub-Saharan Africa: The game of the rules
1st Edition
Edited
By Tom De Herdt, Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan
February 07, 2017
Although international development discourse considers the state as a crucial development actor, there remains a significant discrepancy between the official norms of the state and public services and the actual practices of political elites and civil servants. This text interrogates the variety of...
African Migrants and Europe: Managing the ultimate frontier
1st Edition
By Lorenzo Rinelli
December 08, 2016
The process of migration control mirrors the trajectories of the people who traverse national boundaries, making today’s borders flexible and fluid. This book explores the transformation of migration control in the post 9/11 era. It looks at how border controls have become more diffuse in the face ...
Homegrown Development in Africa: Reality or illusion?
1st Edition
By Chukwumerije Okereke, Patricia Agupusi
December 08, 2016
Internationally driven development programmes have not been entirely successful in transforming the economic status of African countries. Since the late 1990s many African countries have started to take initiatives to develop an integrated framework that tackles poverty and promotes socio-economic ...
Reconstructing the Authoritarian State in Africa
1st Edition
Edited
By George Kieh, Pita Agbese
October 10, 2016
This work seeks to examine the nature and dynamics of authoritarianism in Africa and to suggest ways in which the states covered in the book can be democratically reconstituted. In 1990, a wave of euphoria greeted the "third wave of democratization" that swept across the African Continent. The ...
Critical Perspectives on African Politics: Liberal interventions, state-building and civil society
1st Edition
Edited
By Clive Gabay, Carl Death
August 03, 2016
Strong states and strong civil societies are now increasingly hailed as the twin drivers of a ‘rising Africa’. Current attempts to support growth and democracy are part of a longer history of promoting projects of disciplinary, regulatory and liberal rule and values beyond ‘the West’. Yet this is ...