The State of Africa 2010/11 : Parameters and Legacies of Governance and Issue Areas.
Title:
The State of Africa 2010/11 : Parameters and Legacies of Governance and Issue Areas.
Author:
Adar, G.
ISBN:
9780798303194
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (288 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- About the Editors -- About the Contributors -- Abbreviations, Acronyms and Concepts -- Introduction. Conceptual and Issue Areas in Context -- Global dimension -- Continental dimension -- Regional dimensions -- National dimensions -- Part 1: Local and National Demensions -- Part 2: Regional and Continental Reconstruction - -- Part 3: External Relations and Issue Areas -- Notes and references -- PART 1. Local and National Dimensions -- CHAPTER 1. Managing Diversity and Competitive Politics -- Introduction -- The centrality of the state in Africa -- Democracy as a tool for managing diversity -- Development as an instrument for redistribution of national resources -- Peace as a pre-condition for managing competitive politics -- Conclusion -- Notes and references -- CHAPTER 2. The African Post-Colonial State/Post-Adjustment State and the Social Contract -- Introduction -- Why the state? -- The war machine and the state -- Examples of war machines -- Political imagination, the social contract and the state in Africa -- Conclusion -- Notes and references -- CHAPTER 3. Indigenous Organisations, Social Movements and the Nigerian State -- Introduction -- Indigenous organisations and social movements in Africa: An analytical framework -- State response: Cooperation and compromise or resistance and repression? -- Social movements - state relations in Africa - the way forward -- Notes and references -- CHAPTER 4. Human Security in Africa -- Introduction -- What is human security? -- The state and the regionalisation of security in Africa -- Conflicts and conflict resolution -- Terrorism, the scramble for African resources and superpower intervention -- Safety and security of refugees and internally displaced persons -- Broad welfare and human development -- Conclusion -- Notes and references.
PART 2. Regional and Continental Reconstruction Governance, Security and Economic Dimensions -- CHAPTER 5/ Politics and Governance in Africa -- Introduction -- Governance as a concept -- Political culture and features of governance in Africa -- Regional initiatives towards good governance - the African Union and Nepad -- Regional political culture and authoritarianism -- Conclusion -- Notes and references -- CHAPTER 6. Pan-African Governance Architecture: Prospects and Future -- Introduction -- Pan-Africanism: Philosophical underpinning of continental governance -- Structures and institutions of pan-African governance: From the OAU to the AU -- The Pan-African Parliament -- The African Peer Review Mechanism -- Pan-African governance framework/regimes and contemporary politics of paradox -- Prognosis: Subregional organisations and pan-African governance -- Conclusion -- Notes and references -- CHAPTER 7. African Renaissance, African Conflicts and the Regional Security Complex -- Introduction -- Understanding the African Renaissance -- AU security architecture -- African solutions: A reality? -- Conclusion -- Notes and references -- CHAPTER 8. Intra-African Trade and Economic Development -- Introduction -- Intra-African trade versus trade with rest of the world -- Africa's recent economic performance: A fallacy of the trade and development story -- Conclusion and way forward -- Notes and references -- CHAPTER 9. Market Reforms and Socioeconomic Development in Africa -- Introduction -- The philosophy, ideology and critique of market reforms -- Background to and nature of market reforms in Africa -- Progress or setbacks? -- Business and investment environment in Africa -- Conclusion -- Notes and references -- PART 3. External Relations and Issue Areas -- CHAPTER 10. Africa in Emerging International Forums -- Introduction -- The continental cockpit.
Africa's engagement with multilateral institutions -- Forging new partnerships beyond the West -- Conclusion -- Notes and references -- CHAPTER 11. Africa and its Traditional Western Partners -- Introduction -- Towards a re-defi nition of 'traditional partnership' -- Partnership between the United States and Africa -- New Partnership for Africa's Development (Nepad) as a type of new partnership between Africa and 'traditional partners' -- Conclusion -- Notes and references -- CHAPTER 12. Africa and the Emerging Global South -- Introduction -- The African condition -- The Emerging Global South -- Africa and the BRIC states -- Conclusion -- Notes and references -- CHAPTER 13. Women and Gender: Beyond the Rituals of Empowerment -- Introduction -- The state of gender and women in empowerment -- Redefining culture and its basis of sexual polarisation -- Reaching beyond the dogma of religion in empowerment -- Refuting the sexist imagery of family empowerment -- Imperative for a vitiation of politics without women -- Envisioning a philosophy of money -- Empowerment as an epistemological groundwork 'to know and to be known' -- Conclusion and recommendation -- Notes and references -- CHAPTER 14. The State of Space Science in Africa -- Introduction -- Space science activities in Africa -- Space science policy issues in Africa -- The social benefi ts of space science -- Conclusion -- Notes and references -- PART 4. Conclusion -- CHAPTER 15. Conclusion Confronting Africa's Developmental Challenges -- Africa as a fragmented continent -- The function and role of the state in Africa -- The new scramble for Africa -- Note and reference -- Back Cover.
Abstract:
The State of Africa series project was conceived by the Africa Institute of South Africa (AISA) during its 2003�2004 financial year for purposes of mapping out on a regular basis critical issue areas relating to intra- and inter-African as well as extra-African relations. The first and second volumes of the series were published in 2004 and 2008 respectively. Volume 1: The State of Africa: Thematic and Factual Review served as an exploratory piece and covered a broad range of issues relating to politics and governance, millennium development goals (MDGs), peace and conflict and regional development. Volume 2: The State of Africa: Post-Conflict Reconstruction and Development focused thematically and examined � from critical and comprehensive perspectives � issues associated with post-conflict in Africa. The volume was grounded on the continent�s quest for conflict prevention, management and resolution as a means of creating an enabling environment for the consolidation of democracy and reconstruction of societies affected by crisis in general and war in particular. This volume, Volume 3: Parameters and Legacies of Governance and Issue Areas takes a multi-pronged and multi-faceted approach to some of these issues by providing in-depth analysis of dynamics at national, regional, continental and international levels. The global transformation in the 1980s and 1990s, which witnessed the crumbling of the Soviet Union, the Warsaw Pact and opened a window of opportunities for East�West bipolar rapprochement, particularly between the United States and Russia, also had impact on Africa at the national, regional and continental levels. Focusing on conceptual units, such as the state, indigenous organisations, regional and continental organisations as well as selected priority issues � in particular gender and empowerment, the global South, and space science
� the chapters in the book provide useful insights into the nature and impact of the transformation and its impact on the socio-economic and politico-security situation in Africa.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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