Africa in International Politics Africa has long been considered marginal to the world in both economic and political terms. This important volume seeks to rectify this, arguing that there has been a continual flow of both ideas and goods between Africa, Europe, Asia and later the Americas. Indeed, Africa has never existed apart from world politics, but has been unavoidably entangled in the ebb and flow of events and changing configurations of power. Africa in International Politics examines and compares external involvement in the continent, exploring the foreign policies of major states and international organisations towards it. Drawing on critical approaches from International Relations, International Political Economy and Security Studies, the book sets out a framework for understanding Africa’s place in world politics and provides detailed analyses of the major external states and international organisations currently influencing African politics. At the same time, Africa is viewed as a player in its own right whose behaviour and agency acts to define, in many cases, the policies and even identities of external agents. This book provides the first comprehensive, critical and up-to-date analysis of the policies of the major external actors towards Africa after the Cold War. The chapters focus on the policies of the United States, the UK, France, China, Russia, Japan and Canada, as well as the European Union, international financial institutions and United Nations peacekeeping. Ian Taylor is a Senior Lecturer in African Politics at the University of Botswana and Visiting Research Fellow in the Department of Political Science, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa. Paul Williams is a Lecturer in Security Studies at the University of Birmingham, UK. 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Jackson 25 Asia and Europe Development and different dimensions of ASEM Yeo Lay Hwee 26 Global Instability and Strategic Defence Neville Brown 27 Africa in International Politics External involvement on the continent Edited by Ian Taylor and Paul Williams Africa in International Politics External involvement on the continent Edited by Ian Taylor and Paul Williams I~ ~~o~!l~n~~;up LONDON AND NEW YORK First published 2004 by Routledge Published 2017 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017, USA Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business Copyright © 2004 Ian Taylor and Paul Williams for selection and editorial matter; individual contributors their contributions Typeset in Times by Taylor & Francis Books Ltd The Open Access version of this book, available at www.tandfebooks.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercail-No Derivatives 4.0 license. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Africa in international politics : external involvement on the continent/ edited by Ian Taylor and Paul Williams. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Africa–Foreign relations–1960– I. Taylor, Ian, 1969– II. Williams, Paul, 1975– DT30.5.A3536 2004 327.6 2003017310 ISBN 978-0-415-31858-7 (hbk) Contents List of tables ix Notes on contributors x Acknowledgements xii Introduction: understanding Africa’s place in world politics 1 IAN TAYLOR AND PAUL WILLIAMS 1 The contending currents in United States involvement in sub-Saharan Africa 23 JAMES J. HENTZ 2 Britain and Africa after the Cold War: beyond damage limitation? 41 PAUL WILLIAMS 3 France’s policy towards Africa: continuity or change? 61 DANIELA KROSLAK 4 The ‘all-weather friend’? Sino-African interaction in the twenty-first century 83 IAN TAYLOR 5 Russia and Africa: moving in the right direction? 102 VLADIMIR SHUBIN 6 Japan–Africa relations: patterns and prospects 116 SCARLETT CORNELISSEN viii Contents 7 Canada and Africa: activist aspirations in straitened circumstances 136 DAVID BLACK 8 The European Union’s external relations with Africa after the Cold War: aspects of continuity and change 155 STEPHEN R. HURT 9 The international financial institutions’ relations with Africa: insights from the issue of representation and voice 174 CAROLINE THOMAS 10 From Congo to Congo: United Nations peacekeeping in Africa after the Cold War 195 ADEKEYE ADEBAJO Index 213 Tables 2.1 British trade relations with sub-Saharan Africa 53 2.2 British bilateral aid: top ten African recipients, 1999–2000 55 8.1 Regional destinations of EU aid disbursements as a percentage of total EU aid flows 159 9.1 Extreme poverty in sub-Saharan Africa 175 9.2 Poverty in sub-Saharan Africa 176 Contributors Adekeye Adebajo is Director of the Africa Program at the International Peace Academy in New York and Adjunct Professor at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, USA. He served on United Nations missions in South Africa, Western Sahara and Iraq. He is author of Building Peace in West Africa: Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea-Bissau (Lynne Rienner, 2002) and Liberia’s Civil War: Nigeria, ECOMOG, and Regional Security in West Africa (Lynne Rienner, 2002), and co-editor of Managing Armed Conflicts in the Twenty-First Century (Frank Cass, 2000). David Black is Chair of the Department of International Development Studies and Associate Professor of Political Science at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada. His current research includes human rights in the foreign policies of South Africa and Canada; Canadian policy towards Africa; and sport and world politics. He is co-editor of Bridging the Rift: The New South Africa in Africa (Westview, 1997), and co-author of Rugby and the South African Nation (Manchester University Press, 1999). Scarlett Cornelissen is a Lecturer in the Department of Political Science at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa. Her research interests are in international relations; the political economy of tourism; development theory and global tourism. She has published articles on Japan’s relations with Africa and identity politics in the Western Cape in South Africa. James J. Hentz is Associate Professor in the Department of International Studies and Political Science, Virginia Military Institute, USA, where he teaches national security, international relations and African political and economic development. He is the co-editor of New and Critical Security and Regionalism: Beyond the Nation State (Ashgate, 2003). His book South Africa and the Logic of Cooperation in Southern Africa is forth- coming (Indiana University Press). Dr Hentz was a visiting Fulbright Scholar at the Miklós Zrínyi National Defence University, Budapest, Hungary, in the spring of 2003. Stephen R. Hurt is a Lecturer in International Relations at Oxford Brookes University. His research area is international political economy with a Contributors xi particular interest in development and southern Africa. He has published articles on European development policy in Third World Quarterly and International Relations. Daniela Kroslak recently received a PhD from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, focusing on the role and responsibility of the French government in the Rwandan genocide. She spent six months at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI) in 2002 where she was employed as a researcher