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Africa at the Crossroads Between Regionalism and Globalization
John Mukum Mbaku, Suresh Chandra Saxena
Book Code: C8020
ISBN: 0-275-98020-0
ISBN-13: 978-0-275-98020-7
488 pages, tables
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 4/30/2004
List Price: $99.95 (UK Sterling Price: £57.95)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects: Reviews:
  • The book will be useful to graduate students of African economic development and policy makers concerned with Africa's future development. Recommended. Graduate, research, and professional collections.
    —Choice     November 2004
Description: Mbaku, Saxena, and their contributors examine the problems faced by Africa as it decides what to do to improve its ability to contribute to and benefit from the new globalization. Today, the continent stands at a crossroads; it must choose between joining the new global society and pursuing a process of internal self-reliance. The dilemma the continent faces is how to participate in and benefit from the new global economy as well as retain and also benefit from its emerging regional economic and political schemes. The book is written by a group of highly skilled and committed Africanists and is intended to make a significant contribution to the debate on poverty alleviation in Africa as well as on improving Africa's ability to participate in and benefit from the new globalization and how to achieve the type of peaceful coexistence in Africa that will enhance economic growth and development. It contains a refreshing, vigorous, and informative analysis of poverty alleviation strategies in the continent, how to achieve lasting peace and enhance the peaceful co-existence of population groups, and how to improve the continent's ability to participate more effectively in the new globalization. It emphasizes the importance of good policies and laws and institutions not only to peaceful coexistence, but also to sustainable poverty alleviation strategies. As Africans prepare themselves and their societies for the new globalization, it is critical that they provide themselves with governance structures that are locally-focused, and that enhance peace and sustainable development.
Table of Contents:
  • List of Tables
  • List of Contributors
  • Acknowledgments
  • Acronyms
  • Africa at the Crossroads: Introduction by John Mukum Mbaku and Suresh Chandra Saxena
  • Africa at the Crossroads of Globalization by Emmanuel Nnadozie
  • Globalization and Popular Disenchantment in Africa by Francis B. Nyamnjoh
  • A Tale of Three Images: Globalization, Marginalization, and the Sovereignty of the African Nation-State by Paul L. Ebioze Idahosa
  • Regionalism and Regional Cooperation in Africa: New Century Challenges and Prospects by Paul-Henri Bischoff
  • The New East African Union: A Defense and Security Organ as the Missing Link by P. Godfrey Okoth
  • From OAU to African Union: Africa's Giant Step Towards Continental Unity by Suresh Chandra Saxena
  • Fighting Poverty and Deprivation in Africa: The Continuing Struggle by John Mukum Mbaku
  • Internet Connectivity and Development in Africa: Look Before You "Leapfrog" by Lyombe S. Eko
  • Decentralization and Privatization ofInfrastructure by Mwangi S. Kimenyi and Wilson S. K. Wasike
  • Beyond Rhetoric: Peacekeeping in Africa in the Millennium by Korwa G. Adar
  • Cultural Diversity and the Search for Lasting Peace in Africa; Consociational Democracy Revisited by Ufo Okeke Uzodike
  • State Repair and Democratic Development in Africa by 'Kunle Amuwo
  • Ethnicity, Agonism of Difference and National Imagining in Post-Colonial Africa by Nantang Jua
  • The Struggle for Stability in Nigeria's Contemporary Politics (1990-1999) and the Lessons for the Fourth Republic by E. Ike Udogu
  • Imperialism and Militarialisme in Africa: The Political Economy of French Arms Sales and Military Intervention, 1960-1890 by Immanuel Tatah Mentan
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index
LC Card Number: 2003057997
LCC Class: HC800
Dewey Class: 337
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