POLITICAL SCIENCE
Africa's Railway Renaissance: The Role and Impact of China
This book investigates the history, political economy and spatiality of Chinese railway projects in Africa. It examines the financial governance of Sino-African railway projects, their socio-cultural, political and economic effects as well as the regional dimension of Africa’s new railway...
$247.00
$190.00
Africa's Radicalisms and Conservatisms: Volume II: Pop Culture, Environment, Colonialism and Migration
Volume II of Africa's Radicalisms and Conservatisms continues the broad themes of radicalisms and conservatisms that were examined in volume I. Like volume I, the essays examine why the two “isms” of radicalisms and conservatisms should not be viewed as mere irreconcilable...
$207.00
$159.00
Africa's Radicalisms and Conservatisms: Volume I: Politics, Poverty, Marginalization and Education
With Africa as its point of reference and departure, this volume examines why and how the two concepts – radicalisms and conservatisms – should not be taken as mere binaries around which to organize knowledge. It demonstrates that these concepts...
$295.00
$227.00
Africa's Quest for Reform of the United Nations Security Council: Vitalities and Pitfalls
This book discusses Africa’s call for reform of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) based on a decolonization perspective as opposed to the mainstream history of International Organizations (IOs). It advocates for the decolonization of IO history arguing that the...
$143.00
$110.00
Africa's Quest for Modernity: Lessons from Japan and China (2023)
This monograph addresses the complexity of China-Africa and Japan-Africa relations from a comparative perspective. The volume is divided into five sections. Section I focuses on the divergent perspectives that are reflected in the discourse on China-Africa relations. Section II discusses...
$169.00
$130.00
Africa's Platforms and the Evolving Sharing Economy
Digital transformation concepts have created new business principles such as the on-demand economy and a new sharing economy. While the on-demand economy has primarily grown out of industrialized economies, especially North America, Africa has been known to exhibit communal living...
$215.00
$165.00
Africa's Platforms and the Evolving Sharing Economy
Digital transformation concepts have created new business principles such as the on-demand economy and a new sharing economy. While the on-demand economy has primarily grown out of industrialized economies, especially North America, Africa has been known to exhibit communal living...
$280.00
$215.00
Africa's place in the international football system: Why South Africa received the 2010 FIFA World Cup
Master's Thesis from the year 2007 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Region: Africa, grade: 70, Stellenbosch Universitiy, language: English, abstract: For millions of people around the globe, football is an important part of everyday life. Similarly, many...
$97.00
$75.00
Africa's Persistent Vulnerable Link to Global Politics
A key dimention of global politics is the interaction that takes place between the nation-states as primary actors, and the systemic environment within which the actors operate. How a nation-state relates to the structural realities of the international system depends...
$30.00
$23.00
Africa's Peace Puzzle: Interstate Peace in Malawi, Zambia, and Botswana
Africa is often portrayed as a continent marked by violence and war. While conflict has indeed touched much of the continent, a few countries have managed to avoid it altogether. Africa's Peace Puzzle tells the story of three of them^―Malawi, Zambia, and...
$137.00
$105.00
Africa's Peace Puzzle: Interstate Peace in Malawi, Zambia, and Botswana
Africa is often portrayed as a continent marked by violence and war. While conflict has indeed touched much of the continent, a few countries have managed to avoid it altogether. Africa's Peace Puzzle tells the story of three of them^―Malawi, Zambia, and...
$46.00
$35.00
Africa's Path to Net-Zero: Exploring Scenarios for a Sustainable Energy Transition (2023)
This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the challenges and opportunities for achieving a net-zero energy transition in Africa. With a focus on policy, technology, financing, and socio-political factors, the book presents four potential scenarios for a sustainable energy transition...
$182.00
$140.00
Africa's Oil Coast: How the Region's Strategic Importance May Cause Operational Challenges for AFRICOM as Currently Constructed
The U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) is at a critical crossroads regarding the trajectory of its organizational design and operational approach. Asproblems in Africa continue to escalate and present additional threats to U.S. national security, the combatant command faces issues it...
$17.00
$13.00
Africa's New Scramble: Lobito vs. Belt and Road in the Superpower Showdown
Africa’s future is being built on steel, copper—and strategy.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...
$33.00
$25.00
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
$66.00
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,...
$33.00
$25.00
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...
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$11.00
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
$47.00
Africa's Moment (English)
Translated by David Fernbach The 21st century will be the century of Africa. This continent was once seen as empty, rural, animist, poor, and forgotten by the world. Now, fifty years after independence, it is full to bursting, urban and...
$102.00
$78.00
Africa's Moment
Translated by David Fernbach The 21st century will be the century of Africa. This continent was once seen as empty, rural, animist, poor, and forgotten by the world. Now, fifty years after independence, it is full to bursting, urban and...
$43.00
$33.00