Africa in an Era of Crisis
Author: Kofi Buenor Hadjor
Publisher: Africa World Press
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780865431508
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Kofi Buenor Hadjor
Publisher: Africa World Press
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780865431508
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Arthur Gavshon
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-05-20
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 0429725612
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The great power rivalry surging across Africa today is a heritage of those European statesmen who a century ago in Berlin ruled straight lines on school atlases to carve up a continent-and whole nations with it-into tidy colonial compartments. With African states searching for a political identity in the post-colonial era, the superpowers are now j
Author: Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja
Publisher: Sapes Books
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 30
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Adekeye Adebajo
Publisher: Jacana Media
Published: 2012-02
Total Pages: 285
ISBN-13: 1920196293
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"This book is about the games that Great Powers play. Nearly half of all UN peacekeeping missions in the post-Cold War era have been in Africa, and the continent currently hosts the greatest number (and also the largest) of such missions in the world. Uniquely assessing five decades of UN peacekeeping in Africa, Adekeye Adebajo focuses on a series of questions: What accounts for the resurgence of UN peacekeeping efforts in Africa after the Cold War? What are the factors that have determined the success, or contributed to the failure, of the missions? Does the mandating of so many peacekeeping missions signify the failure of Africa's regional security organizations? And, crucially, how can a new division of labour be established between the UN and Africa's security organisations to more effectively manage conflicts on the continent? Adebajo's historically informed approach provides an in-depth analysis of the key domestic, regional, and external factors that shaped the outcomes of fifteen UN missions, offering critical lessons for future peacekeeping efforts in Africa and beyond." --
Author: Magnus Blomström
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2002-01-22
Total Pages: 359
ISBN-13: 1134864477
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Highly topical with the severe famine again in Sub-Saharan Africa Authors have many previous publications and a lot of experience in this area Book is drawn from an international conference on the responses to crises in Africa, at Stockholm School of Economics, supported by the Swedish International Development Authority
Author: Olayiwola Abegunrin
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2020-11-12
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 3030566420
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book discusses African migration and the refugee crisis. Economic, political and social tension in the Middle East and in many parts of the Global South has induced historic mass migration across national and international borders. The situation is especially dire in Africa, where a sizable number of Africans have chosen or have been forced to leave their countries of origin for Europe and North America. Written by an international team of scholars, this edited book traces the refugee crisis around the world, telling the necessary story of forced migration, intentional exclusion, and human insecurity from an Afrocentric lens. The volume is divided into three sections. Section I places African migration within the broader contexts of international history, law, economics, and policy. Section II discusses cases of African migration to Europe, Latin America, and the Mediterranean. Section III considers negative consequences of mass African migration, including the restriction and criminalization of migration, post-traumatic stress disorder, and gender-based violence. A compelling account of risk, resilience, and global power dynamics, this volume will be useful to students and researchers interested in African studies, migration, peace and conflict studies, and policy as well as professionals, practitioners, NGOs, IGOs, governmental and humanitarian organizations.
Author: Catherine Scott
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2017-06-30
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 1786732106
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →How should failed states in Africa be understood? Catherine Scott here critically engages with the concept of state failure and provides an historical reinterpretation. She shows that, although the concept emerged in the context of the post-Cold War new world order, the phenomenon has been attendant throughout (and even before) the development of the Westphalian state system. Contemporary failed states, however, differ from their historical counterparts in one fundamental respect: they fail within their existing borders and continue to be recognised as something that they are not. This peculiarity derives from international norms instituted in the era of decolonisation, which resulted in the inviolability of state borders and the supposed universality of statehood. Scott argues that contemporary failed states are, in fact, failed post-colonies. Thus understood, state failure is less the failure of existing states and more the failed rooting and institutionalisation of imported and reified models of Western statehood. Drawing on insights from the histories of Uganda and Burundi, from pre-colonial polity formation to the present day, she explores why and how there have been failures to create effective and legitimate national states within the bounds of inherited colonial jurisdictions on much of the African continent.
Author: Commission on African Regions in Crisis
Publisher: Grip
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 298
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