Contemporary Africa and the Foreseeable World Order

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Contemporary Africa and the Foreseeable World Order sheds light on the place of "Africa Agency in the competitive and changing global system. This book provides scholars, policymakers, and other stakeholders studying and working on African issues with innovative solutions, strategies, knowledge, insights, case studies, and analyses to support decision-making on how best African states should position themselves in the dynamic global system in order to influence key decisions. Featuring themes such as the African Union (AU) and the consequences of the discovery of oil in the non-traditional oil exporting countries, the editors and contributors have demonstrated why and how Africas position in the foreseeable world order is largely dependent on the influence of both existing and emerging world powers. .

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"This is a must-read for anyone seeking to understand the foreseeable world order. Intellectually stimulating, full of new ideas for policymakers and stakeholders operating in Africa, this edited volume is scrupulously careful to report only the facts about the continent's foreign relations, within the region and with the rest of the world. Onditi and his collaborators have offered a new depiction of what they call the foreseeable world order that may achieve a longstanding African aspiration to set a global agenda. -- Douglas Yates, American University of Paris
At a time when the African Union is engaged in a far-reaching debate on institutional and financial reform,Contemporary Africa in the Foreseeable World Orderoffers timely and stimulating perspectives on the place of the African continent in a changing world order. This is an important contribution to international relations' scholarship on Africa, with an interest in changing values, rules and institutions in Africa and how these relate to emerging new powers such as China." -- Ulf Engel, University of Leipzig
Contemporary Africa and the Foreseeable World Order is a much-welcomed book because it looks at International relations from a specific African perspective. The African continent is often studied simply as the field and the stake of competing external interests. In this book, Africa becomes the position from which international relations are analyzed and evaluated. This book positively contributes to the deconstruction of the narrative of the dark continent that still affects too many academic researches. -- Valerio Bini, University of Milan
Contemporary Africa and the Foreseeable World Order helps to shine a spotlight on the challenges facing Africa, indicate the areas where significant strides have been made, and propose how African countries can act individually and collectively to build on those gains. The book makes for a compelling read. -- Ejeviome Eloho Otobo, Global Governance Institute, Brussels, Belgium

Author Bio

Francis Onditi is head of department of the School of International Relations and Diplomacy at Riara University. Gilad Ben Nun is senior researcher at Leipzig University. Cristina D'Alessandro is senior fellow at the Center on Governance at the University of Ottawa. Zach Levey is professor and chair of the Department of International Relations at the University of Haifa.