African Foreign Policies (eBook, ePUB)

Selecting Signifiers to Explain Agency
Redaktion: Bischoff, Paul-Henri

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores, at a time when several powers have become serious players on the continent, aspects of African agency, past and present, by African writers on foreign policy, representative of geography, language and state size.

In the past, African foreign policy has largely been considered within the context of reactions to the international or global "external factor". This groundbreaking book, however, looks at how foreign policy has been crafted and used in response not just to external, but also, mainly, domestic imperatives or (theoretical) signifiers. As such, it narrates individual and changing foreign policy orientations over time-and as far back as independence-with mainly African-based scholars who present their own constructs of what is a useful theoretical narrative regarding foreign policy on the continent-how theory is adapted to local circumstance or substituted for continentally based ontologies. The book therefore contends that the African experience carries valuable import for expanding general understandings of foreign policy in general.

This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of Foreign Policy Analysis, Foreign Policy Studies, African International Relations/Politics/Studies, Diplomacy and more broadly to International Relations.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. März 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000048377
• Artikelnr.: 58931123

Autorenporträt

Paul-Henri Bischoff is Professor of International Relations and erstwhile longstanding Head of Department of Political and International Studies at Rhodes University, Grahamstown-Makhanda, South Africa.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. What Next? Past and present African foreign policy
concepts and practices 3. The African Union as a Foreign Policy Player:
African Agency in International Cooperation 4. Unprincipled Pragmatism and
Anti-Imperialist Impulses in an Interconnected World: The Zuma Presidency,
2009-2017 5. Towards A Strategic Culture Approach to Understanding and
Conceptualising Ethiopia's Foreign Policy Towards Israel and the Middle
Eastern Arab Countries 6. Nigeria's Foreign Policy and Intervention
Behaviour in Africa: What Role for Agency? 7. Zimbabwe and New Signifiers:
Towards a cultural political economy of Foreign Policy Making 8. Realist
Conceptions of Kenya's Foreign Policy and Foreign Policy Behaviour: A
Theoretical and Contextual Disposition 9. Addressing the Conceptual Void of
African Small State Foreign Policy in Orthodox Theory: A Case Study of
Botswana's Principled Pragmatism 10. Tunisia's Foreign Policy Towards
France Before and After an Undemanding 'Revolution': A Theoretical
Explanation of the An-Nahdha-led Interim Governments' Soft Policy 11.
Straddling Between Convergence and Divergence: A Constructivist's View of
Malawi's Foreign Policy in Post-independence Africa 12. Strategies of a
Small State Between Realism and Liberalism: Sixty Years of Guinea's
Diplomacy and Foreign Policy (1958-2018) 13. Rethinking SADC's Collective
Policymaking Processes on External Relations and Non-state Participation
for Region-building 14. Towards an Understanding of the Interplay Between
Ghana's Foreign and Defence Policies 15. Conclusion