African Foreign Policies Selecting Signifiers to Explain Agency

• Main Author: Bischoff, Paul-Henri
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Routledge 2020; Taylor and Francis; Taylor & Francis Group
• Edition: 1
• Series: Routledge Studies in African Politics and International Relations
• Subjects: Africa-Foreign relations-1960; Africa-Politics and government-1960; African foreign policies; African Politics; African Studies; Botswana; continentally based ontologies; Diplomatic relations; Ethiopia; Foreign Policy; International Relations; Malawi; Nigeria; South Africa; the African experience; Tunisia; Ahmed Salem; Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church; Socio-economic Development; SADC Treaty; Middle Eastern Arab Countries; Foreign Policy Behaviour; Foreign Policy Agency; Humanitarian Aid; Strategic Culture Approach; Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma; African Agency; Bingu Wa Mutharika; SADC Tribunal; President Bingu Wa Mutharika; Collective Foreign Policy; SADCC; National Role Conceptions; South Africa's Foreign Policy; Ethiopia's Foreign Policy; Actor-centric Perspective; Foreign Policy; Foreign Policy Analysis; SADC Secretariat; Nigeria's Foreign Policy; SADC Summit

This book explores, at a time when several powers have become serious players on the continent, aspects of African agency, past and present, by African writers on foreign policy, representative of geography, language and state size. In the past, African foreign policy has largely been considered wit...

Table of Contents:

• Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- List of acronyms -- Chapter 1 Introduction: African foreign policy studies-selecting signifiers to explain agency -- Introduction -- Signifiers -- Foreign policy agency: Individual and collective -- Culture and ideology expressed in foreign policy -- The agency of small states: Balancing, rhetoric, role conceptions -- Agency and anti-agency: Strategic choices informed by realism -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 2 African agency: Past into present African foreign policy concepts and practices -- Introduction -- African foreign policy practice-Then into now -- African re-imagining and actorness: The African Renaissance and South Africa -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3 The African Union as a foreign policy player: African agency in international cooperation -- Introduction -- Foreign policy as African agency and African agency as foreign policy -- AU: Foreign policy actor and foreign policy maker -- African agency: Concept and practice -- The context of Africa's agency in international relations: Post-coloniality, identity and ideology -- Agents, elites and African summitry as drivers of African agency -- Constituting actors and processes at AU: African foreign policy making -- AU foreign policy on international cooperation: The record on partnerships -- Beyond partnerships: African collective diplomacy in action -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 4 Unprincipled pragmatism and anti-imperialist impulses in an interconnected world: The Zuma presidency, 2009-2017 -- Introduction -- The ANC's conceptual approach to foreign policy -- South Africa and external relations -- Weakening moral authority -- Turning away from the West
• Conclusion: The future shape of South Africa's foreign policy -- References -- Chapter 5 Towards a strategic culture approach to understanding and conceptualising Ethiopia's foreign policy towards Israel and the Middle Eastern Arab countries -- Introduction and context -- A strategic culture framework for conceptualising Ethiopia's Middle Eastern foreign policy -- Ethio-Israeli relations -- Ethiopian and Middle Eastern Arab relations -- Shift in Ethiopia's strategic culture and foreign policy under the EPRDF and Meles -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 6 Nigeria's foreign policy and intervention behaviour in Africa: What role for agency? -- Introduction -- Reappraising Nigeria's foreign policy and intervention behaviour in Africa since independence -- What role for agency? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 7 Zimbabwe and new signifiers: Towards a cultural political economy of foreign policy making -- Introduction -- Culture and foreign policy: Mugabe and the use of totemism -- Africa: Individual and collective foreign policy as expressions of irrationality -- Conclusion -- Note -- References -- Chapter 8 Realist conceptions of Kenya's foreign policy and foreign policy behaviour: A theoretical and contextual disposition -- Background and introductory context -- Realism: Theoretical and conceptual frameworks for analysis -- From KDF to AMISOM: Realism and Kenya's foreign policy behaviour towards Somalia -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 9 Addressing the conceptual void of African small state foreign policy in orthodox theory: A case study of Botswana's principled pragmatism -- Introduction -- Constructivism: An appropriate theoretical framework -- Botswana's foreign policy and IR theory -- Botswana's foreign policy: Principled pragmatism in practice -- Botswana and the norms and principles of SADC and the AU
• Chapter 14 Ghana: Identity formation and the foreign and defence policies of a small state -- Introduction -- National role conceptions as ideational bedrock of foreign and defence policies -- Ghana's foreign and defence policies -- Foreign and defence policies under Nkrumah -- Nkrumah and Pan-Africanism -- Nkrumah and non-alignment -- Defence policy in the immediate post-independence era -- Foreign and defence policies after Nkrumah -- The interplay between Ghana's foreign and defence policies -- Ghana as a peacekeeper -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 15 Conclusion -- Culture and identity as foreign policy drivers -- Ideology, leadership, identity, roles and strategy -- Social factors and foreign policy: The social nature of African organisation -- Collective foreign policy actorness -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index
• Lesotho's political crisis -- The fallout with Zimbabwe -- The AU and ICC crisis -- Domestic change and Botswana's international liberal credentials -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 10 Tunisia's foreign policy towards France before and after an undemanding "revolution": A theoretical explanation of the An-Nahdha-led interim governments' soft policy -- Introduction -- Tunisia's foreign policy towards France before the uprising -- Post-uprising cooperation with Ben Ali's main international ally, 2011-2014 -- A realist-constructivist explanation of the puzzle -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 11 Straddling between convergence and divergence: A constructivist's view of Malawi's foreign policy in post-independence Africa -- Introduction -- In defiance of African unity? -- Embracing African unity -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 12 Strategies of a small state between realism and liberalism: Sixty years of Guinea's diplomacy and foreign policy (1958-2018) -- Introduction -- Realism, liberalism and small states: Theoretical underpinnings of Guinea's foreign policies -- What is the impact of Guinea's "small state" status on its foreign policy orientations? -- Guinea's realist foreign policy in action under the First Republic (1958-1984) -- Inconsistent liberalism in Guinea's foreign policy since 1984 -- Promotion of regional integration in Africa -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 13 Rethinking SADC: A mixed actor approach to collective policymaking on external relations -- Introduction -- SADC's history of policymaking: Policymaking under the FLS to the SADCC -- SADC's policymaking and power relations -- SADC's policies and non-state actors -- SADC's collective mixed actor approach on gender security -- SADC's key policies on gender -- Concluding reflections -- Notes -- References