Diplomacy and Borderlands

African Agency at the Intersections of Orders

Katharina Coleman, Markus Kornprobst, Annette Seegers, Katharina P. Coleman, Markus Kornprobst, Annette Seegers, Katharina Coleman, Katharina P. Coleman, Markus Kornprobst, Annette Seegers

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2019
• Print ISBN: 9780367273323
• eBook ISBN: 9781000732436
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: African History
• Index: Politics & International Relations

This book examines Africa's internal and external relations by focusing on three core concepts: orders, diplomacy and borderlands.

The contributors examine traditional and non-traditional diplomatic actors, and domestic, regional, continental, and global orders. They argue that African diplomats profoundly shape these orders by situating themselves within in-between-spaces of geographical and functional orders. It is in these borderlands that agency, despite all kinds of constraints, flourishes. Chapters in the book compare domestic orders to regional ones, and then continental African orders to global ones. They deal with a range of functional orders, including development, international trade, human rights, migration, nuclear arms control, peacekeeping, public administration, and territorial change. By focusing on these topics, the volume contributes to a better understanding of African international relations, sharpens analyses of ordering processes in world politics, and adds to our comprehension of how diplomacy shapes orders and vice versa. The studies collected here show a much more nuanced picture of African agency in African and international affairs and suggest that African diplomacy is far more extensive than is often assumed.

This book will be of much interest to students of diplomacy studies, African politics and International Relations.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of figures
• List of tables
• List of abbreviations
• List of contributors
• Introduction: orders, borderlands and diplomacy – African actors in world politics
• 1 Where local and global orders interface: an analysis of how civil society actors contextualise human rights norms in South Africa
• 2 Human rights in South Africa’s identity: the interplay of international and domestic mechanisms in South Africa’s identity in global politics
• 3 Zaire’s exile–diplomats: African agency in overlapping orders
• 4 The borderlands of order in the borderlands of Africa: Katanga and the Caprivi Strip
• 5 Establishment of a new regional order in the Horn of Africa
• 6 The ECOWAS Commission and the making of regional order in West Africa: intersecting logics in international public administration
• 7 Overlaps and distinctiveness: Africa’s nuclear order
• 8 African diplomacy in United Nations peacekeeping operations
• 9 Non-impunity, the International Criminal Court and the African Union: exploring the borderland of the international orders related to non-impunity
• 10 Stirring the pot: the African Union and the international order
• 11 Africa in the throes of global pushes and pulls
• Conclusion
• Index