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Perspectives on the State Borders in Globalized Africa -

Perspectives on the State Borders in Globalized Africa

Buch | Softcover
208 Seiten
2023
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-06434-5 (ISBN)
CHF 69,80 inkl. MwSt
Assessing the different kinds of borders between African nations, the contributors present a borderland and trans-region approach to understanding the challenges and opportunities facing the peoples of the African continent.

Africa faces rampant violence, terrorism, deterioration of water-energy-food provision, influxes of refugees and immigrants, and religious hatred under the trends of globalization. Solutions for these issues require new perspectives that are not attempted by conventional state-building approaches. Statehood is limited in many places on the African continent because many states are combined by loose political ties. African states’ borders tend to be regarded as porous and fragile. However, as the contributors to this volume argue, those porous borders can contribute to cultural and socio-economic network construction beyond states and the creation of active borderlands by increasing people’s mobility, contact, and trade.

A must read for scholars of African studies that will also be of great value to academics and students with a broader interest in nationhood, globalization, and borders.

Yuichi Sasaoka is a professor in the Graduate School of Governance Studies at Meiji University, Japan. Aimé Raoul Sumo Tayo is a senior researcher at the Center for Strategic Studies and Innovations, Yaoundé, Cameroon. Sayoko Uesu is a research associate at National Graduate Institute for Policy Research (GRIPS), Japan.

Introduction 1. New Perspectives on the African State Borders 2. From Contested Borders to Cross-border Cooperation in the Lake Chad Basin: Stakes and Challenges 3. A Porous Border and Economic Activity in the Kampala Kinshasa Market, West Nile, Northwestern Uganda 4. Cross-Border Refugee Crisis and Local Governments in the West Nile Region, Uganda 5. Mobility as a Culture in rural Africa 6. Micro-Regionalism in Southern Africa 7. Transnational Violent Actors in the Borderlands of the Sahel and Challenges for Stabilization: Any role for Japan? 8. Insecurity in the Horn of Africa and IGAD 9. The Hardening of African Borders in the Era of Growing Security Threats and the Global War on Terror 10. Porous Boundaries and Anisotropic Mobility: Migration and Cross-Border Trade between Nigeria and Japan 11. Decentralization and Conflict Prevention in East Africa Conclusion

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics
Zusatzinfo 8 Tables, black and white; 3 Line drawings, black and white; 1 Halftones, black and white; 4 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 453 g
Themenwelt Naturwissenschaften Geowissenschaften Geografie / Kartografie
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10 1-032-06434-X / 103206434X
ISBN-13 978-1-032-06434-5 / 9781032064345
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