Globalization and Emerging Trends in African States' Foreign Policy-Making Process: A Comparative Perspective of Southern Africa

Rok Ajulu

Sep 2020 · Routledge

About this ebook

This title was first published in 2002: The resurgence of the democratization movement in Africa in the post-Cold War era is gradually replacing authoritarianism with forms of democratic systems. These changes have put into question the traditional big man image of African states’ foreign policy and foreign policy-making. The first book of its kind to focus on the foreign policy-making process of Southern African countries in the era of globalization, these instructive and rewarding case studies contextualize the increasing involvement of other internal actors in African states foreign policy-making process. Foreign policy actors such as the Presidency, Ministries of Defence, Foreign Affairs, Trade, Finance and the Intelligence Community, among others, are examined in a comparative perspective.

About the author

Dr Korwa Gombe Adar, Associate Professor of International Studies and Dr Rok Ajulu, Senior Lecturer of International Political Economy, both at International Studies Unit, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa. Prof. Korwa Gombe Adar received his MA and PhD in International Studies at the University of South Carolina, Columbia, USA. Prior to joining Rhodes University in 1997, he taught at the University of Nairobi, Kenya. His articles have appeared in numerous internationally refereed journals. He is the author of Kenyan Foreign Policy Behaviour Towards Somalia, 1963-1983 (Lanham: University Press of America, 1994) and co-editor of The United States and Africa: From Independence to the End of the Cold War (Nairobi: East African Educational Publishers, 1995). He was one of the recipients of the 1992 Fulbright Research Grant for Senior African Scholars.