Pan-African initiatives in global governance
| dc.contributor.author | Gottschalk, Keith | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2014-01-20T14:20:17Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2014-01-20T14:20:17Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2013 | |
| dc.description | Paper presented at the Teaching Africa in International Studies Seminar, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, 26 September 2013. | |
| dc.description.abstract | As recently as 2009, a five hundred page textbook on international relations did not even mention the African Union in its index. The same applied to the Wikipedia entry on international organizations until a colleague of this author corrected that omission in 2011. The mainstream international relations literature has the perspective that our continent is marginal, the AU invisible, and Africa is a problem, that is spoken to, or spoken for. African agency in global governance is a perspective whose time has come. Drawing on constructivist and transformational theories, this paper explores how the African Union family or organizations, including its regional communities such as COMESA, EAC, ECOWAS, and SADC, seek to engage with and negotiate Africa’s positioning in global governance. These Pan-African initiatives go far beyond anything that ASEAN, the Arab League, or the OAS have succeeded in. This paper draws upon research by the author and Kiki Edozie for their forthcoming book The African Union’s Africa. (Michigan State University Press, 2014) | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10566/958 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.privacy.showsubmitter | false | |
| dc.rights | This file may be freely used for educational uses, as long as it is not altered in any way. No commercial reproduction or distribution of this file is permitted without written permission of the authors. | |
| dc.status.ispeerreviewed | false | |
| dc.subject | African Union | en_US |
| dc.subject | Global Governance | en_US |
| dc.subject | Peacekeeping | en_US |
| dc.subject | Regional community | en_US |
| dc.title | Pan-African initiatives in global governance | en_US |
| dc.type | Conference Paper | en_US |