African Foreign Policies in International Institutions [Hardcover]

This book is the first to exclusively consider the foreign policy tendencies of African states in international institutions. As an edited volume offering empirically based perspectives from a variety of scholars, this project disabuses the notion that Africa should be considered a niche interest in the field of foreign policy analysis. It asserts that the actions of the continent's states collectively serve as an important heuristic by which to interrogate and understand the foreign policies of other global states, and are not simply anomalously extant entities whose actions should be studied only insofar as they deviate from predictions based on the experiences of Western or other non-African states.
1. Introduction - Africa Foreign Policies and International Organizations:The View from the 21st Century.- 2. An Ambivalence to the Norm-Cycle: The African Union's New Approach to Continental Peace and Security.- 3. The AU and Continental Foreign Economic Policy Making in Africa: Institutions and Dialectics on Integration in the Global Economy.- 4. The Troubled Socialising Agent: Democratic Governance and the African Unions Quest to Become an Independent Foreign Policy Actor.- 5. Beyond the Collective: Comparative Strategic Utility of the African Union and the RECs in Pursuing Individual National Security Foreign Policy Goals.- 6. The Role of African Regional Organizations in Post-Election Governments of National Unity.- 7. Nationalism Underpinned by Pan-Regionalism: African Foreign Policies in ECOWAS in Era of Anti-Globalization.- 8. The Intergovernmental Authority on Development: Internal Culture of Foreign Policymaking and Sources of Weaknesses.- 9. The Uses (and Abuses) of the Economic Community of Central African States: The Hidden Functions of Regional Economic Community Membership for African Regimes.- 10. The Instrumentalization of SADC to Achieve Fol(