African engagements : Africa negotiating an emerging multipolar world / edited by Ton Dietz [and others].

Other author Dietz, Ton.
Format Book
Publication InfoLeiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011.
Description389 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Subjects

SeriesAfrica-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies ; v. 7
African-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies (Series) ; v. 7. ^A601811
Contents African engagements: on whose terms? Africa negotiating an emerging multipolar world / Ton Dietz, Kjell Havnevik, Mayke Kaag & Terje Oestigaard -- Trends in transnational political engagement in Africa: the promises of NEPAD / Samuel Teshale Derbe -- Political topographies of private security in sub-Saharan Africa / Peer Schouten -- The neoliberalisation of nature in Africa / Bram Buscher -- Foreign land acquisitions in Madagascar: competing jurisdiction of access claims / Sandra Evers, Perrine Burnod, Andrianirina Ratsialonana Rivo & Andre Teyssier -- 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 -- Beyond negotiating a multipolar world: Sudan's non-Western development cooperation alternative / Mohamed Salih -- 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 -- China into Africa: conflict or the triumph of Western order? / Gorm Rye Olsen -- Railway time: technology transfer and the role of Chinese experts in the history of Tazara / Liu Haifang & Jamie Monson -- China-Africa relations: the relevance of strategic engagement of African society organisations with China / Antony Otieno Ong'ayo -- New topographies of power? Africa negotiating an emerging multipolar world / Simona Vittorini & David Harris -- The Obama administration's engagements in Africa within historical context: great expectations versus daunting challenges / Peter J. Schraeder -- 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 -- Aligning and harnessing the gains of globalisation to an African advantage: towards 'glo-fricanisation' / Lawrence Ogbo Ugwuanyi -- Africa in the world: a historical view / Stephen Ellis.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2011018144
ISBN9789004209886 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN9004209883 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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