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The United States and the Transformation of African Security: The African Crisis Response Initiative and Beyond
The authors examine the African Crisis Response Initiative (ACRI). While traditionally, the U.S. military has not been heavily involved in Sub-Saharan Africa, this has begun to change since the end of the Cold War. U.S. forces have supported several humanitarian relief and evacuation operations associated with African conflicts, conducted numerous 'engagement' activities aimed at assisting African states and their militaries during the transition to democracy, and helped Africans develop a capability to avoid or solve their region's security problems. They conclude with recommendations where U.S. national security interests can be promoted with limited resources.
The African Union
A comprehensive examination of the work of the African Union (AU), with special emphasis on its capacity to meet the challenges of building and sustaining governance institutions and security mechanisms. Samuel Makinda and F. Wafula Okumu show how Africa and, in particular, the AU can effectively addressed the challenges of building and sustaining governance institutions and security mechanisms only if they have strategic leadership. Current debates on, and criticisms of, leadership in Africa are also analyzed as well as key options for overcoming the constraints that African leaders face. Core topics covered include: the colonial policies of the European powers the emergence of Pan-Africanism the creation of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) in 1963 the evolution of the OAU into the AU in 2002 the AU’s capacity to address poverty alleviation, conflict management and resolution, peacebuilding and humanitarian intervention.
Life after Dictatorship
Launches a new research agenda on one of the most common but overlooked features of the democratization experience worldwide: authoritarian successor parties.
Doomed Interventions
This book is for students and scholars studying political economy, public policy, and global health, and all those who are interested in knowing how ordinary Africans think about the response to the AIDS epidemic. It studies the divergent priorities of donors and citizens in response to AIDS intervention in Africa.
The Quest for Peace in Africa
... Contains the proceedings of the papers presented at the seventh OSSREA Congress held in December 2002, in Khartoum, Sudan.
The Politics of Memory in Post-Authoritarian Transitions, Volume One
History is a powerful tool in the hands of politicians, and can be a destructive weapon since power over the past is the power to decide who is a hero and who is a traitor. Tradition, the memory of ancestors, and the experience of previous generations are the keys that unlock the door to citizens’ minds, and allow certain ideas, visions and political programs to flourish. However, can history be a proper political weapon during democratisation processes when the past is clearly separated from the present? Are the new order and society founded on the basis of some interpretation of the past, or, rather, are they founded only with reference to the imagined future of the nation? This book exp...
Strengthening Parliamentary Democracy in SADC Countries
Parliamentary democrarcy in Lesotho has historically suffered setbacks. The first post-independence democratic experiment lasted for only five years since 1965 to 1970, when it was abandoned following Jonathan's electoral defeat and refusal to relinquish power to the winner, the late. Ntsu Mokhhle and leader of the opposition Basutoland Congress Party (BCP), subsequently suspending the constitution for 15 years. Reinstated in 1993 under the BCP government, parliament once again faced serious challenges.
The Geopolitics of Regional Power
In the last two decades, various states from the Global South have emerged as important players in international relations. Most popular among them is China. Brazil, India and South Africa have also taken essential roles in global and regional politics. Compared to traditional great powers, they can be labelled ’regional great powers’ or ’regional powers’ because their influence is - with the exception of China - concentrated on their neighbourhood. The impact of regions, meaning the impact of geography, on the economics and politics of regional powers is surprisingly understudied. This book analyses how geographical conditions influence the regional economics and politics of South Africa, allowing the author to delineate its region of influence.
Globalization
The definitive volume on globalization from a comparative politics perspective
