Political Science
Political Science
The African Union's Africa: New Pan-African Initiatives in Global Governance
The African Union’s Africa: New Pan-African Initiatives in Global Governance examines the initiatives of the Pan-African global governance institution the African Union (AU) as the organization and its precursor commemorate their Jubilee as international actors. Taking a unique approach, the book...
$55.00
The African Union's action for food security in Africa
Unlike international humanitarian organisations, the African Union considers food security from a development perspective, due to its status as a political organisation. It therefore has a framework of public policies which forms the basis of its action to promote food...
$94.00
The African Union: Autocracy, Diplomacy and Peacebuilding in Africa
The African Union has been a major factor in establishing peace, security and development in Africa. Today, however, the intranational body is struggling in the midst of a perceived dissipating appetite for supporting continental institutions. Previously seen as the panacea...
$47.00
Africa: A Biography of the Continent
In 1978, paleontologists in East Africa discovered the earliest evidence of our divergence from the apes: three pre-human footprints, striding away from a volcano, were preserved in the petrified surface of a mudpan over three million years ago. Out of...
$30.00
The African Union: Autocracy, Diplomacy and Peacebuilding in Africa
The African Union has been a major factor in establishing peace, security and development in Africa. Today, however, the intranational body is struggling in the midst of a perceived dissipating appetite for supporting continental institutions. Previously seen as the panacea...
$195.00
The African Union and the Challenges of Regional Integration in Africa
One of the major problems facing African countries today is that of underdevelopment and dependency. The expectations that political independence of African countries will engender development soon became a mirage as disease, famine, lack of good accommodation and health care...
$83.00
Africa Needs Inventors, Not Intercessors
Africa doesn't need another prophet.It needs inventors. Builders. Coders. Scientists. Strategists. For too long, the continent has been taught to look upward for salvation-while the rest of the world builds forward. While we fast and pray, others innovate and patent....
$29.00
Africa Must Be Developed: Agenda for the 22nd Century Domination
No matter where Africa is discussed, it’s always an elephant in the room. Because each time there is a discussion on Africa, two facts are implied without necessarily being expressed: Africa is mostly Black and developing. The author avouches that...
$15.00
Africa, Middle East and the Caribbean: On Multiracial Whiteness Throughout History
The tumultuous world history regarding racial relations took a new turn in 1492 for marked by the invasion of the Americas by European colonizers. Ever since, the descendants of the enslaved Africans who had been brought to the New World...
$31.00
African Realism?: International Relations Theory and Africa's Wars in the Postcolonial Era
African Realism? explains Africa's international conflicts of the post-colonial era through international relations theory. It looks at the relationship between Africa's domestic and international conflicts, as well as the impact of factors such as domestic legitimacy, trade, and regional economic...
$68.00
African Realism?: International Relations Theory and Africa's Wars in the Postcolonial Era
African Realism explains Africa’s international conflicts of the post-colonial era through international relations theory. It looks at the relationship between Africa’s domestic and international conflicts, as well as the impact of factors such as domestic legitimacy, trade, and regional economic...
$176.00
The African Presence: Representations of Africa in the Construction of Britishness
This book considers the ways that representations of Africa have contributed to the changing nature of British national identity. Using interviews, photo archives, media coverage, advertisements, and web material, the book focuses on major Africa campaigns: the abolition of slavery,...
$39.00
The African Presence CB: Representations of Africa in the Construction of Britishness
This book considers the ways that representations of Africa have contributed to the changing nature of British national identity. Using interviews, photo archives, media coverage, advertisements, and web material, the book focuses on major Africa campaigns: the abolition of slavery,...
$169.00
African Politics: An Introduction
African Politics: An Introduction is an engaging, broad‑ranging guide to the politics of African states, reflecting on contemporary patterns and trends, whilst also situating them in their historical context. Viewed from the outside, African politics are often said to be too...
$260.00
Africa: A Beginner's Guide
Vast, diverse, dynamic, and turbulent, the true nature of Africa is often obscured by its poverty-stricken image. In this controversial and gripping guide, Tom Young cuts through the emotional hype to critically analyse the continent's political history and the factors...
$19.00
Africa 2050: Realizing the Continent's Full Potential
Africa is at a critical inflection point. After decades of disappointing performance a combination of sound macro policies and a commodity price bonanza has led to a dramatic and long overdue surge in African growth rates and concomitant improvement in...
$169.00
African Political Economy in the Twenty-First Century: Theories, Perspectives, and Issues
African Political Economy in the Twenty-First Century: Theories, Perspectives, and Issues edited by Emeka C. Iloh, Ernest T. Aniche, and Stephen N. Azom fills the gap in the discourses on African political economy from an African perspective. Since the end of...
$195.00
Africa 2025-2026
The World Today Series: Africa 2025–2026 is an annually updated presentation of Africa. It provides historical background on Africa to help readers gain a thorough understanding of contemporary developments in this region. Broad introductory chapters are followed by sections on each country...
$52.00
Africa 2024-2025
The World Today Series: Africa provides students with vital information on all countries on the African continent through a thorough and expert overview of political and economic histories, current events, and emerging trends. Each country is examined through the following sections:...
$34.00
Africa 2023-2024
The World Today Series: Africa provides students with vital information on all countries on the African continent through a thorough and expert overview of political and economic histories, current events, and emerging trends. Each country is examined through the following sections:...
$34.00
Africa 2022-2023
The World Today Series: Africa provides students with vital information on all countries on the African continent through a thorough and expert overview of political and economic histories, current events, and emerging trends. Each country is examined through the following sections:...
$36.00
Africa 2020-2022
The World Today Series: Africa provides students with vital information on all countries on the African continent through a thorough and expert overview of political and economic histories, current events, and emerging trends. Each country is examined through the following sections:...
$39.00
Africa in the Wider World
In this collection of essays, regional and functional experts from CSIS consider Africa’s current place in the world, including trade and investment, peace and security, and democracy and good governance. The authors consider how Africa’s transformation is changing the way...
$64.00
Africa in the United Nations System (1945-2005)
Though there have been numerous studies on the United Nations, only a few have dealt comprehensively with Africa's relations with the world body. This book attempts to fill this lacuna by providing a systematic assessment of Africa's relationship with the...
$52.00
Africa in Black Liberation Activism: Malcolm X, Stokely Carmichael and Walter Rodney
This book revisits and analyzes three of the most accomplished twentieth century Black Diaspora activists: Malcolm X (1925–1965), Stokely Carmichael (1941–1998) and Walter Rodney (1942–1980). All three began their careers in the Diaspora and later turned toward Africa. This became...
$293.00
African Perspectives on Global Pandemics and the Challenges of Peace and Security
African Perspectives on Global Pandemics and the Challenges of Peace and Security by Masake Pilisano Harris and Richard Obinna Iroanya dissects the effects of pandemics in Africa and the possibilities for countering pandemic outbreaks in the future. The contributors of this...
$143.00
Africa in Data: How Africa is Rising and Where You Can Be a Part of It (Special Edition)
Why did M-PESA fail in South Africa and succeed in Kenya?How are leading African banks able to lend money with no credit history?How did Rwanda become a frontier for drone development?From Uber to the Boda Boda, Why will the Shared...
$78.00
Africa in Chaos (1999)
In a follow-up to his ground-breaking Africa Betrayed , George Ayittey takes up the plight of Africa at the end of the twentieth century. As he sees countries like Nigeria go over the edge of economic and social disaster, Ayittey...
$110.00
Africa in Black Liberation Activism: Malcolm X, Stokely Carmichael and Walter Rodney
This book revisits and analyzes three of the most accomplished twentieth century Black Diaspora activists: Malcolm X (1925–1965), Stokely Carmichael (1941–1998) and Walter Rodney (1942–1980). All three began their careers in the Diaspora and later turned toward Africa. This became...
$86.00
Africa the Way Forward
This book was born of the desire to share my feelings and concerns and that of others who are so much concerned about how the continent of Africa has remain dormant for centuries in terms of development and progress. Being...
$27.00