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African Affairs' is the top journal in African Studies and has been for some time. This book draws together some of the most influential, important, and thought provoking articles published in its pages over the last decade. In doing so, it collates essential cutting-edge research on Africa and makes it easily available for students, teachers, and researchers alike. 0'The African Affairs Reader' is broken down into four sections that cover some of the biggest themes and questions facing the continent today, including: the African State, the Political Economy of Development, Africa's Relationship with the World, and Elections, Representation & Democracy. Within each section, articles deal with some of the most significant recent trends and events, such as the prospects for democratization in Ghana and Nigeria, the factors underpinning Rwanda's economic success, the rise of political corruption in South Africa, the spread of the drugs trade, the struggle against gender based violence, and the growing influence of China. Each section is introduced by a new purpose-written essay by the journal's editors that explains the evolution of the wider debate, highlights key contributions, and suggests new ways in which the discussion can be taken forward. Taken together, the essays and articles included in the volume provide both a coherent introduction to the study of Africa and a compelling commentary on the current state of play on the continent.

Africa --- Politics and government. --- #SBIB:328H41 --- #SBIB:327H17 --- Instellingen en beleid: Afrika: comparatief / diverse landen --- Buitenlandse politiek: Afrika --- Democratization --- Democracy

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Africa, West --- Afrique occidentale --- Colonization --- History --- Commerce --- Colonisation --- Histoire --- #SBIB:328H41 --- Instellingen en beleid: Afrika: comparatief / diverse landen --- -Africa, Western --- West Africa --- Western Africa --- -Colonization --- Africa, West - Colonization

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#SBIB:35H6050 --- #SBIB:324H30 --- #SBIB:328H41 --- Bestuur en beleid: nationale en regionale studies: Afrika --- Politieke cultuur --- Instellingen en beleid: Afrika: comparatief / diverse landen

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"How do government arrangements emerge? When and how does individual agency turn into collective agency? How do sensory experiences of violence, instability, etc affect the configuration of governance arrangements? When, why, and how are governance arrangements institutionalized?This book seeks to contribute to a non-normative conceptualization of the emergence and transformation of government arrangements, and addresses the under-theorization of actors and agency in conventional governance theories. The editors and contributors theorize the concept of governance more concretely by analyzing the key actors and arrangements that define states of governance across different places and by examining its performance and development in particular settings and time periods. Each contribution to the edited volume is based on a case-study drawn from Africa, though the book argues that the core issues identified remain the same across the world, though in different empirical contexts. The contributions also range across key disciplines, from anthropology to sociology to political science. This ground-breaking volume addresses governance arrangements, discusses how social actors form such arrangements, and concludes by synthesizing an actor-centered understanding of political articulation to a general theory of governance. Scholars across disciplines such as political science, development studies, African studies, and sociology will find the book insightful."--

Gouvernance --- Anthropologie politique --- #SBIB:39A73 --- #SBIB:328H41 --- Etnografie: Afrika --- Instellingen en beleid: Afrika: comparatief / diverse landen --- Africa --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Politics and government --- Government --- Anthropologie politique.

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Africa, which was not long ago discarded as a hopeless and irrelevant region, has become a new 'frontier' for global trade, investment and the conduct of international relations. This book surveys the socio-economic, intellectual and security related dimensions of African regionalisms since the turn of the 20th century. It argues that the continent deserves to be considered as a crucible for conceptualizing and contextualizing the ongoing influence of colonial policies, the emergence of specific integration and security cultures, the spread of cross-border regionalisation processes at the expense of region-building, the interplay between territory, space and trans-state networks, and the intrinsic ambivalence of global frontier narratives. This is emphasized through the identification of distinctive 'threads' of regionalism which, by focusing on genealogies, trajectories and ideals, transcend the binary divide between old and new regionalisms. In doing so, the book opens new perspectives not only on Africa in international relations, but also Africa’s own international relations.This text will be of key interest to students and scholars of African politics, African history, regionalism, comparative regionalism, and more broadly to international political economy, international relations and global and regional governance.

#SBIB:328H41 --- Instellingen en beleid: Afrika: comparatief / diverse landen --- International relations. Foreign policy --- Africa --- Regionalism --- Régionalisme --- Afrique --- Politics and government. --- Politique et gouvernement