Introduction / By Katharina Coleman, Markus Kornprobst, and Annette Seegers -- Where Local and Global Orders Interface: An Analysis of How Civil Society Actors Contextualise Human Rights Norms in South Africa / By Maxine Rubin and Masana Ndinga-Kanga -- Human Rights in South Africa's Identity: The Interplay of International and Domestic Mechanisms in South Africa's Identity in Global Politics / By Annette Seegers -- Zaire's Exile-Diplomats: African Agency in Overlapping Orders / By Colin Hendrickx -- The Borderlands of Order in the Borderlands of Africa: Katanga and the Caprivi Strip / By Jan Erk -- Establishment of a New Regional Order in the Horn of Africa / By Sonia Le Gouriellec -- The ECOWAS Commission and the Making of Regional Order in West Africa: Intersecting Logics in International Public Administration / By Stefan Ganzle, Jarle Trondal, and Nadja Kuhn -- Overlaps and Distinctiveness: Africa's Nuclear Order / By Markus Kornprobst -- African Diplomacy in United Nations Peacekeeping Operations / By Katharina P. Coleman -- Non-Impunity, the International Criminal Court and the African Union: Exploring the Borderland of the International Orders Related to Non-Impunity / By Martin Welz -- Stirring the Pot: The African Union and the International Order / By Thomas Kwasi Tieku -- Africa in the Throes of Global Pushes and Pulls / By Eghosa E. Osaghae -- Conclusion / By Katharina Coleman, Markus Kornprobst, and Annette Seegers.
Summary:
"This book examines Africa's internal and external relations by focusing on three core concepts: orders, diplomacy and borderlands. The contributors examine traditional and non-traditional diplomatic actors, and domestic, regional, continental and global orders. They argue that African diplomats profoundly shape these orders by situating themselves within in-between-spaces of geographical and functional orders. It is in these borderlands that agency, despite all kinds of constraints, flourishes. Chapters in the book compare domestic orders to regional ones, and then continental African orders to global ones. They deal with a range of functional orders, including development, international trade, human rights, migration, nuclear arms control, peacekeeping, public administration and territorial change. By focusing on these topics, the volume contributes to a better understanding of African international relations, sharpens analyses of ordering processes in world politics, and adds to our comprehension of how diplomacy shapes orders and vice versa. The studies collected here show a much more nuanced picture of African agency in African and international affairs and suggest that African diplomacy is far more extensive than is often assumed. This book will be of much interest to students of diplomacy studies, African politics and International Relations"-- Provided by publisher.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.