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By 2100, more than 80 per cent of the world's population is expected to live in Afrasia (Africa and Asia). This book draws lessons from history, provides a new cognitive map of the world, and discusses multiple challenges global citizens will face in the age of Afrasia, an emerging macro-region. The centre of gravity of the world is shifting. Whether the world can manage a soft landing into sustainable equilibrium depends on the nature of the dialogue people in Africa and Asia will organise. The author argues that a state of equilibrium between the two is achievable, provided issues related to gender, employment, agriculture, human-nature relationships, and multicultural coexistence are simultaneously addressed. Can future Afrasia present itself as a community determined not to allow the return of predatory practice internally and externally? Will the fates of African and Asian peoples converge or diverge? How about the future relationships between Afrasia and the rest of the world? Exploring these questions using multiple disciplines, this book will be of interest to professional researchers and graduate students in IR and Afro-Asian relations, as well as Asian and African area studies, demography, geography, history, development economics, anthropology, language education, and religious studies. The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Afro-Asian politics. --- African-Asian politics --- Asian-African politics --- World politics --- Africa --- Asia --- Civilization --- Forecasting. --- Relations

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Matt Houngnikpo examines how domestic conflict, economic stagnation, political instability, poverty and underdevelopment have plagued Africa for decades. He argues that a reversal of the political, economic and social plight of Africa lies in better policies, good governance, and, more importantly, a new type of African leader and citizen.

Sustainable development --- Economic development --- Environmental aspects --- Economic development. --- Africa --- Ethnology --- Culture. --- Sociology. --- Development Studies. --- African Politics. --- African Culture. --- Politics and government.

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This book examines general Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) roles and comparative advantages in the broad fight to end global poverty, as well as roles and opportunities specific to particular Millennium Development Goals sectors.

Economic assistance --- Non-governmental organizations --- Poverty --- International cooperation. --- UN Millennium Project. --- Economic development. --- Development economics. --- Africa --- Communication in politics. --- Political science. --- Development Studies. --- Development Economics. --- African Politics. --- Political Communication. --- Political Science. --- Politics and government.

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The HIV/AIDS pandemic striking South Africa is of historic proportions. More people are living with AIDS in South Africa than in any other country in the world. Just in the past decade, the life expectancy in South Africa has dropped from 67 to 43 years. The social and economic impact of this disease is hard to overstate. However, what is striking is the paucity of thoughtful, reflective scholarship and writing on the subject. AIDS and South Africa: The Social Expression of a Pandemic addresses the economic, social and cultural impact of HIV/AIDS as it relates to South African society.

Africa—Politics and government. --- Ethnology—Africa. --- Welfare economics. --- Sociology. --- Africa—History. --- African Politics. --- African Culture. --- Social Choice/Welfare Economics/Public Choice/Political Economy. --- Sociology, general. --- African History. --- Africa --- Ethnology --- Culture. --- Social choice. --- Social Choice and Welfare. --- Politics and government. --- History.

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Electricity is an integral part of everyday life--so integral that we rarely think of it as political. In Electrical Palestine, Fredrik Meiton illustrates how political power, just like electrical power, moves through physical materials whose properties govern its flow. At the dawn of the Arab-Israeli conflict, both kinds of power were circulated through the electric grid that was built by the Zionist engineer Pinhas Rutenberg in the period of British rule from 1917 to 1948. Drawing on new sources in Arabic, Hebrew, and several European languages, Electrical Palestine charts a story of rapid and uneven development that was greatly influenced by the electric grid and set the stage for the conflict between Arabs and Jews. Electrification, Meiton shows, was a critical element of Zionist state building. The outcome in 1948, therefore, of Jewish statehood and Palestinian statelessness was the result of a logic that was profoundly conditioned by the power system, a logic that has continued to shape the area until today.

Electrification --- Jewish-Arab relations. --- History --- Political aspects --- 1917. --- 1948. --- african politics. --- arab. --- arabic. --- arabs. --- british rule. --- conflict. --- electric grid. --- electricity. --- electrification. --- engineering. --- european languages. --- hebrew. --- israel and palestine history. --- israeli. --- jewish statehood. --- jews. --- middle eastern history. --- palestinian statelessness. --- palestinian. --- pinhas rutenberg. --- political power. --- power system. --- setting the stage for conflict. --- zionist. --- E-books