Africa in World Politics Into the 1990s

Africa's international relations are in a state of transition as the continent enters the last decade of the twentieth century. Old assumptions about development, security, diplomacy and dependence are being challenged by new realities of debt, drought, devaluation and destabilisation. Collective self-reliance remains elusive despite the demise of nationalism. This collection identifies the major issues in Africa's foreign and development policies and prospects as she enters the 1990s.

List of Tables and Figures - List of Abbreviations - Notes on the Contributors - Map - Introduction: Marginalisation, Differentiation and Redefinition; T.M.Shaw - The Non-Aligned Movement and the New International Division of Labour; T.M.Shaw - The Organisation of African Unity in World Politics; K.Mathews - Beyond Lome III: Prospects for Symmetrical Euro-African Relations; R.I.Onwuka - CMEA-African Economic Relations - The Revival of Regionalism: Cure for Crisis or Prescription for Conflict?; T.M.Shaw - ECOWAS: Towards Autonomy or Neo-Colonialism?; S.K.B.Asante - Foreign Military Intervention in Africa: the New Cooperative- Competitive Imperialism; L.Anise - France's Africa: a Struggle Between Exclusivity and Interdependence; E.Nwokedi - The Angolan Puzzle: Intervening Actors and Complex Issues; K.W.Grundy - Conclusion: the Political Economy of Africa in the World System, 1960- 85; T.M.Shaw - Index

Tim Shaw is Research Professor and Graduate Program Director in Global Governance and Human Security at the University of Massachusetts Boston, USA and Emeritus Professor at the University of London, UK. He has an extraordinary record, both as a scholar and administrator, most recently as Professor and Director at the Institute of International Relations at the University of the West Indies, St Augustine in Trinidad; Associate Research Fellow at UNU Comparative Regional Integration Studies in Bruges and Senior Fellow at Centre for International Governance Innovation at the University of Waterloo. He has edited the International Political Economy series for Palgrave Macmillan for more than 30 years.