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The European Union’s Geopolitics
The book deals with the urgent need for the EU to position itself globally in the wake of Brexit, a rapidly worsening climate crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic, an aggressive Russia, and an ever more assertive China. After 60 years of intensive navel gazing that focused on institutional design more than world politics, the EU is now forced to defend its liberal democratic values, which have come under attack from inside and outside the European integration project. Moreover, Realpolitik is back on the agenda. Europe’s content negligence of defense matters in the past few decades has been revealed by Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine.
Of Climate and Gender
What significance do gendered discourse structures have for the state identity of India and the EU when it comes to their respective climate policies? This question is the focus of the study, which offers a comprehensive analysis of the climate discourse of the emerging power India and the EU, often described as a leader of climate change governance. Following the assumption that, although a wide variety of solutions to the greatest challenge of our time – the climate crisis – have been formulated, politicians of various states and regional organisations opt almost exclusively for technological responses, this study explores one possible cause: firmly anchored gender structures within both the Indian and EU climate discourses. Anja Zürn employs the ecofeminist hegemony analysis she developed for this study, first reconstructing the climate policy identities of India and the EU, and then subjecting them to an ecofeminist critique.
Africa on the move : shifting identities, histories, boundaries
Africa is on the move. New geopolitical constellations have prompted individuals and groups to escape war, authoritarian regimes, environmental crises, and poverty. This has led to multiple migration patterns and complex mobilities of African people within and outside of Africa. This volume demonstrates that there is no unifying way to conceptualise the multiple nature of African mobilities. Some authors have conceptualised mobility on a metaphorical level while others provide analyses along spatial movement. This volume offers a vast portrayal of the diversity, innovation and richness of African mobile experiences through geographical, linguistic and socio-political domains. Providing nuanced and complex analyses offered by African Studies scholars of various disciplines, this book aims to contribute to new insights into African mobile experiences and to a repositioning of how Africa is represented globally.
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Bertelsmann Transformation Index 2008
The peaceful transition of authoritarian regimes toward democracy and a market economy poses enormous challenges for citizens and politicians alike. Around the world, under widely differing conditions and with varying degrees of success, reform-oriented groups are struggling to democratize their countries and to strengthen the market economy. Good governance is the decisive factor for the success or failure of any transition process. This is the third edition of the Bertelsmann Transformation Index (BTI), which is published every two years. The global ranking measures and compares transition processes worldwide on the basis of detailed country reports. Comparing systematically the status of democracy and market economy on an international basis, the BTI also provides comprehensive data on the quality of political management in 125 transition and developing countries from 2005 to 2007. The country reports and data are documented on the enclosed CD-ROM.
India’s Africa Policy
The book analyses how India’s rise to the status of an emerging power has affected New Delhi’s Africa policy, after sketching the historical evolution and normative underpinnings of Indo-African relations, and what challenges it has brought for New Delhi’s engagement with the continent. India and Africa share a history dating back millennia. Today, India is one of Africa’s biggest trading partner countries, second only to China. The country regularly extends lines of credit worth billions to African nations, and its pharmaceutical producers dominate many African markets; almost one-fifth of India’s oil imports and more than one-quarter of its natural gas imports come from the conti...
The City Record
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Die Afrikapolitik der Europäischen Union
Seit Mitte der 1990er Jahre sind die Beziehungen der Europäischen Union zum afrikanischen Kontinent in einem fundamentalen Wandel begriffen. Politische Elemente wie die Einhaltung von Menschenrechten, Demokratisierung, Good Governance sowie Konfliktprävention inkl. Krisenmanagement nehmen mittlerweile einen zentralen Stellenwert in der EU-Afrikapolitik ein. Nach einer ausführlichen Bilanzierung der über 40-jährigen Beziehungen der EWG/EG/EU zu Afrika analysiert das Buch diesen jüngeren Paradigmenwechsel unter dem Stichwort "Politisierung" und untersucht die Akteursqualität der EU in der Afrikapolitik. Dabei ist die Frage von besonderem Interesse, ob und in welchem Maß die EU sich durch Strukturreformen und neue Politikansätze inzwischen in die Lage versetzt hat, wirksam zur friedlichen Entwicklung Afrikas beizutragen. Die Analyse der Afrikapolitik ausgewählter EU-Mitgliedstaaten (Deutschland, Frankreich, Großbritannien) untersucht den Trend zur Europäisierung und ein Blick auf die US-Afrikapolitik erhellt den heutigen Stellenwert des Schwarzen Kontinents in der internationalen Politik.
