Africa in a changing global order : marginal but meaningful? / Malte Brosig.
Brosig, Malte, author.
2021
JZ1773
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Title
Africa in a changing global order : marginal but meaningful? / Malte Brosig.
Author
Brosig, Malte, author.
ISBN
9783030754099 (electronic bk.)
303075409X (electronic bk.)
3030754081
9783030754082
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-75409-9
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
Copyright
©2021
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xiii, 227 pages) : illustrations
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-030-75409-9 doi
Call Number
JZ1773
Dewey Decimal Classification
327.6
Summary
This book focuses on marginal actors in the global order. Such a perspective is often missing as global order analysis is often biased towards exploring large powerful actors and equating their relations with global order. Such an approach is not only dated but also analytically incomplete. It is because of the increasingly decentred nature of global order, that marginal actors and their relations, tactics, strategies and approaches matter for global order as they matter for these actors. The book starts by providing an analytical framework exploring different policy options for African agency which are located along a nexus of choices ranging from accommodation, engagement to system transformation. The selection of a particular interaction type is argued to be dependent on external opportunity structures in the form of different global orders reaching from competitive polarity to dispersed forms of authority or even non-polarity. In addition to these external conditions, the ability to generate meaningful African agency facilitates a greater role in global order. Empirically, the book covers four policy fields which are peace and security, international criminal justice, economics and trade and COVID-19. Malte Brosig is Associate Professor in International Relations at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
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Intro
Contents
Abbreviations
List of Figures
List of Tables
1 The Global Order Debate and Africa
Mapping the Global Order Debate
Defining World Order
The Changing Global Order: Recent Trends
Living in a De-centralised Global Order
Africa in a Densely Inter-connected World
References
2 Conceptualising Marginality: Africa's Place in the Global Order
Thinking About Marginality in Global Order
Subaltern Realism and Marginality in Global Order
Conceptualising Options for Subaltern Actors
Conclusion
References

3 The African Security Regime Complex: Innovation in a Decentred Global Order
Regime Complexity
African Security in World Affairs: Foreign Military in Africa
The African Peace and Security Architecture (APSA)
Practicing Regime Complexity
Innovating Global Order
Expert Interview: Gilbert Khadiagala
References
4 International Criminal Justice as Normative Order: Africa and the ICC
How the Court Operates
The African Union's Challenge to the ICC
The Cases of Sudan and Kenya: Peace vs Justice
Diplomatic Immunity and Impunity
Imperial Justice

Africa, Geopolitics and the ICC
Concluding Observations: Shaping Normative Orders Africa's Non-marginal Role
Expert Interview: Navi Pillay
References
5 Economics
Africa's Position in the Global Economic Order
Shaping the Global Economic Architecture
African Agency in Trade Talks
Western Africa
Southern Africa
Concluding Observations: Evaluating African Positions in Trade Talks
Expert Interview: Carlos Lopes
References
6 COVID-19 and Global Order
The Pandemic Order
Africa and COVID-19
Pandemic Geopolitics: Accelerating Tensions

Vaccination and Global Order
Conclusion
Expert Interview: Richard Mihigo
References
7 Conclusion: Marginal but Meaningful-Analysing Africa's Role in Global Order
Africa Operating in the Global Order
References
Index

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