New Security Threats and Crises in Africa

INTRODUCTION- Africa and the New World Era: Context and Stakes; J.Mangala PART I. AFRICA AND THE OLD BALANCE OF POWER Britain and Africa: The Current Agenda; P.Williams Imperialism and US-Africa Relations; G.Kieh Is France Disengaging from Africa? A Critical Look at Nicolas Sarkozy's 'Rupture' Policy in the Context of France-Africa Relations; D.Mengara Russian-American Engagement on Africa; M.Vishnevskiy PART II. AFRICA AND THE NEW BALANCE OF POWER Africa's China relations: contending imaginaries, changing politics and the realities of consolidation; D.Large India's New Engagement of Africa: Trends and Implications; P.Pham The African Policy of Brazil in the Framework of South-South Cooperation; G.Lechini Japan and Africa: Diplomacy of Change and Continuity; S.Adem PART III. ENGAGING MULTILATERAL INSTITUTIONS The Evolving Africa-UN Relationship since the End of the Cold War; A.Bariagaber The European Union and Africa: Old Partners in a Changing World; J.Mangala The World Bank for Africa, or the World Bank for the World Bank?; P.Clements Can Sub-Saharan Africa achieve the Millennium Development Goals?; E.Cleeve PART IV. RESPONDING TO GLOBAL CHALLENGES: AFRICAN PERSPECTIVES AND DYNAMICS Africa's Response to International Terrorism and the War against It; A.K.Bangura The United States Africa Command: Neo-Imperialism or Hegemonic Stability?; J.Mangala Confronting the Challenges of Health Security in Africa; J.Youde Food Security in Africa; A.Mwaniki Climate Change: Socio-Economic and Political Implications for Africa; L.Zulu International Migrations; J.Mangala PART V. CONFRONTING AFRICA'S ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT New Encounters in US-Africa Democracy Relations: Less of the Same?; R.K.Edozie U.S. AIDS Policy in Africa: Managing the Multiple Objectives of the PEPFAR Program; P.Diven The Impact of the World Economic Crisis on African Economies; K.Quartey  Nationalism, the African State and the Myth of the Ethnic Carnivore; R.Yidana PART VI. THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY AND AFRICAN CRISES The Conflicts in Sudan: A Strategic and Humanitarian Reading; M.Salih The Dangers of 'Enablement:' The International Community and Conflict in the Great Lakes; J.F.Clark The Crisis in Zimbabwe: Regional Dynamics and International Involvement; M.Mupepi The Peripheral Capitalist State, the Crises of Underdevelopment and Civil War: A Comparative Study of Liberia and Sierra Leone; G.Kieh International Actors and Cote d'Ivoire's Crisis; A.K.Bangura