Overview
- Offers a comprehensive analysis of the current state of Africa's international relations
- Examines international cooperation with African countries in areas such as health care, education, and peacekeeping
- Explores how Africa's role in the system of international relations has changed during the COVID-19 pandemic
Part of the book series: Advances in African Economic, Social and Political Development (AAESPD)
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Table of contents (23 chapters)
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Healthcare Cooperation and Regional Initiatives in Africa
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Conflicts and Political Process Despite COVID Pandemics
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Front Matter
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About this book
In light of the growing number of African summits and a new awareness of international interdependence during the COVID-19 pandemic, this book provides a comprehensive analysis of the current state of Africa’s international relations (IR). Leading IR scholars from Africa and around the world examine international cooperation with African countries in areas such as health care, education, and peacekeeping and explore how Africa’s role in the system of international relations has changed during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The book is divided into four parts, the first of which explores analyzes the various actors that constitute African agency in the post-pandemic world, while the second focuses on the summits of the major powers regarding cooperation with Africa. The third part covers public health cooperation and regional initiatives in Africa, including issues such as vaccine diplomacy, while the fourth and final part discusses conflicts & political process despite COVID Pandemics.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Alexey Vasiliev is Honorary President of RAS Institute for African Studies (Russia). Between 2006 and 2011, he was Special Representative of President of Russia for contacts with leaders of African states. Over the five decades of academic work, he has published 40 books and more than 900 articles.
Denis Degterev is Head of the Department of Theory and History of International Relations at RUDN University, Moscow (Russia), and he also teaches at MGIMO-University, MFA of Russia. He published over 200 papers in leading journals. He specializes in development cooperation, Africa, and has written extensively on Global South. In 2002-2005, he worked in West Africa.
Timothy M. Shaw is Faculty Fellow at the Department of Conflict Resolution, Human Security, and Global Governance, McCormack Graduate School, UMass Boston (USA). Some of his areas of expertise are international political economy, human development and human security, and African and Caribbean regions. He has written and edited more than ten books.Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Africa and the Formation of the New System of International Relations—Vol. II
Book Subtitle: Beyond Summit Diplomacy: Cooperation with Africa in the Post-pandemic World
Editors: Alexey M. Vasiliev, Denis A. Degterev, Timothy M. Shaw
Series Title: Advances in African Economic, Social and Political Development
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-34041-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-34040-6Published: 04 October 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-34043-7Due: 04 November 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-34041-3Published: 03 October 2023
Series ISSN: 2198-7262
Series E-ISSN: 2198-7270
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 377
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 21 illustrations in colour
Topics: International Relations, African Politics, Foreign Policy, Regionalism, Diplomacy, Development Studies