Political Science
Political Science
Africa's New Scramble: Lobito vs. Belt and Road in the Superpower Showdown
In Africa’s New Scramble: Lobito vs. Silk Belt Road, Bosco Mutarambirwa reveals the fierce contest shaping the continent’s destiny: a 21st-century race between the U.S.-backed Lobito Corridor and China’s Belt and Road Initiative. From the mineral-rich heart of the Congo to the Atlantic port...
$32.00
Africa's New Peace and Security Architecture: Promoting Norms, Institutionalizing Solutions
This volume offers an informed and critical analysis of the operationalization and institutionalization of the peace and security architecture by the African Union and Africa's Regional Economic Communities (RECs). In creating this architecture, the African Union and the RECs tread...
$86.00
Africa's New Oil: Power, Pipelines and Future Fortunes
The development of Africa's oil has greatly accelerated in recent years, with some countries looking at the prospect of almost unimaginable flows of money into their national budgets. But the story of African oil has usually been associated with conflict,...
$32.00
Africa's New Leaders: Democracy or State Reconstruction?: Democracy or State Reconstruction?
This book's starting assumption is that democracy is always desirable, but may not always be possible in the short and medium run. The road to democracy thus may not initially be democratic. In this perspective, the author examines the experience...
$14.00
Africa's Fourth Industrial Revolution
With the rise of new technologies and disruptive innovations reshaping the global economy, the Fourth Industrial Revolution has been characterized as a fusion between the physical, digital, and biological worlds. From the increasing adoption of mobile devices to the entrepreneurial...
$122.00
Africa's Fourth Industrial Revolution
With the rise of new technologies and disruptive innovations reshaping the global economy, the Fourth Industrial Revolution has been characterized as a fusion between the physical, digital, and biological worlds. From the increasing adoption of mobile devices to the entrepreneurial...
$40.00
Africa's New Energy Producers: Making the Most of Emerging Opportunities
Sub-Saharan Africa is on the verge of an energy boom. New discoveries off the East and West coasts have raised hopes of significant revenues that can accelerate poverty reduction and enhance Africa’s status as a destination for industrial investment. The...
$61.00
Africa's External Engagement: Challenges and Opportunities
This volume brings together a number of scholars globally - from Africa and Asia to the Americas and Europe - to examine Africa’s global engagements. It approaches its subject matter theoretically and conceptually as well as empirically asking deeper questions...
$208.00
Africa's Engagement with the Responsibility to Protect in the 21st Century (2024)
This book sheds light on the practice, challenges, and prospects of the Responsibility to Protect (RtoP) amidst wide contestation, backlash, operational challenges, and expectation gaps associated with the theory and practice of the RtoP. Diverging from existing works, it provides...
$208.00
Africa's Energy Potential
The BiblioGov Project is an effort to expand awareness of the public documents and records of the U.S. Government via print publications. In broadening the public understanding of government and its work, an enlightened democracy can grow and prosper. Ranging...
$24.00
Africa's Energy Potential
The BiblioGov Project is an effort to expand awareness of the public documents and records of the U.S. Government via print publications. In broadening the public understanding of government and its work, an enlightened democracy can grow and prosper. Ranging...
$26.00
Africa's Economic Partnership with China: An Holistic Analysis
This book examines how increasing Africa-China relations in the fields of trade, development finance and investment have impacted productive capacities and structural economic transformation in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The book argues that statistical and empirical evidence shows that China’s influence...
$234.00
Africa's Displaced People
In 2014, nearly 60 million people were displaced worldwide. In fact, one out of every 122 people on Earth today is either a refugee, an internally displaced person, or seeking asylum in another country. In sub-Saharan Africa, there are more...
$22.00
Africa's Diamonds: Precious, Perilous Too?
The BiblioGov Project is an effort to expand awareness of the public documents and records of the U.S. Government via print publications. In broadening the public understanding of government and its work, an enlightened democracy can grow and prosper. Ranging...
$26.00
Africa's development trajectory. From NIEO to NEPAD
Academic Paper from the year 2013 in the subject Politics - Region: Africa, Northwest University, course: International Relations, language: English, abstract: Africa's challenges in implementing developmental programmes have to do with fundamentals of the very idea of their dependency underpinning....
$79.00
Africa's Development Impasse: Rethinking the Political Economy of Transformation
Orthodox strategies for socio-economic development have failed spectacularly in Southern Africa. Neither the developmental state nor neoliberal reform seems able to provide a solution to Africa's problems.In Africa's Development Impasse, Stefan Andreasson analyses this failure and explores the potential for...
$156.00
Africa's Development Impasse: Rethinking the Political Economy of Transformation
Orthodox strategies for socio-economic development have failed spectacularly in Southern Africa. Neither the developmental state nor neoliberal reform seems able to provide a solution to Africa's problems.In Africa's Development Impasse, Stefan Andreasson analyses this failure and explores the potential for...
$56.00
Africa's Development Dynamics 2022
Africa’s Development Dynamics uses lessons from Central, East, North, Southern and West Africa to develop policy recommendations and share good practices. Drawing on the most recent statistics, the analysis of development dynamics aims to assist African leaders in reaching the targets...
$116.00
Africa's Challenge to International Relations Theory (2001)
Africa has been noticeably absent in international relations theory. This new collection of essays by contemporary Africanists convincingly demonstrates the importance of the continent to every theoretical approach in international relations. This collection breaks new ground in how we think...
$71.00
Africa Through the Eyes of a Patriot
General Olusegun Obasanjo was recently elected president in the first Nigerian free and popular elections held after fifteen years of military rule. Having voluntarily given over his power to civilians in 1979, Obasanjo has since dedicated himself to Pan-Africanism, conflict...
$234.00
Africa's Booming Oil and Natural Gas Exploration and Production: National Security Implications for the United States and China
Two key long-term energy trends are shifting the strategic balance between the United States and China, the world's superpower rivals in the 21st century: first, a domestic boom in U.S. shale oil and gas is dramatically boosting America's energy security;...
$91.00
Africa's Booming Oil and Natural Gas Exploration and Production: National Security Implications for the United States and China
Two key long-term energy trends are shifting the strategic balance between the United States and China, the world's superpower rivals in the 21st century: first, a domestic boom in U.S. shale oil and gas is dramatically boosting America's energy security;...
$39.00
Africa's Biggest Problem: Unraveling the Complexities
Discover the heart of Africa's struggles as this groundbreaking book delves deep into the most pressing issue confronting the continent. Through an intricate exploration of historical, political, and socio-economic factors, "Africa's Biggest Problem: Unraveling the Complexities" offers a compelling narrative...
$26.00
Africa's Big Men: Predatory State-Society Relations in Africa
This book spotlights, analyzes and explains varying forms and patterns of state-society relations on the African continent, taking as point of departure the complexities created by the emergence, proliferation and complicated interactions of so-called ‘big men’ across Africa's fifty-four states....
$73.00
Africa's Big Men: Predatory State-Society Relations in Africa
This book spotlights, analyzes and explains varying forms and patterns of state-society relations on the African continent, taking as point of departure the complexities created by the emergence, proliferation and complicated interactions of so-called ‘big men’ across Africa's fifty-four states....
$260.00
Africa Through the Eyes of a Patriot
General Olusegun Obasanjo was recently elected president in the first Nigerian free and popular elections held after fifteen years of military rule. Having voluntarily given over his power to civilians in 1979, Obasanjo has since dedicated himself to Pan-Africanism, conflict...
$144.29
Africa's Atomic Odyssey
'Africa's Atomic Odyssey - A Compendium of a Continent's Encounter with Nuclear Power' reveals a complex interplay of geopolitical dynamics and colonial legacies. Nations with uranium reserves face pressures from global powers while striving for sovereignty over their resources. This...
$33.00
Africa's Asia Engagement in 21st Century
This book critically examines Africa’s engagements with Asian countries in the 21st century within the context of an emerging multi-polar world. It explores how African nations are diversifying their economic, diplomatic, cultural, and strategic partnerships by engaging with emerging Asian...
$169.00
Africa Through Structuration Theory: Outline of the FS (Fear and Self-scrutiny) Methodology of Ubuntu
Despite all the talk about African Renaissance, much of the continent is plagued by poverty and instability. To break out of that cycle, the guardians of African heritage (the old independence freedom fighters turned political leaders and their successors) and...
$62.00