Apply For MembershipForeign Policy and International Relations
This volume is a collection of papers presented by Ambassadors, High Commissioners and diplomats at the Ambassadorial Forum. Launched in 2004 by the Africa Institute of South Africa, the Ambassadorial Forum brings together the diplomatic corps attached to South Africa to share their countries’ official foreign policy position on topical issues. It also provides ongoing opportunity for diplomats, academics, civil society, the media and other stakeholders to engage in an exchange of ideas, particularly in terms of internal, bilateral and international foreign policy dimensions of the Africa nation states. Foreign Policy and International Relations: Reflections of Diplomats is divided into two sections: firstly, it focuses on the foreign policy of selected countries, including Angola, Nigeria and Tunisia; and secondly, it looks at bilateral and multilateral issues such as AGOA, the East African Community, TICAD, and the Euro- Mediterranean Partnership.
Dynamics of Civil Society in Liberalising francophone Africa
The major thesis of this monograph is that whilst many of the states in Francophone Africa were not spared the authoritarianism and militarism of degenerate single-party and military states of the 1960s through the 1980s, the effects have been far from being even in state-society relations. Nor have the responses of civil societies been the same. The author argues that the Benin social type represents perhaps the most advanced case of a fairly balanced state-civil society relation to the extent of a relatively advanced consolidation of neo-liberal democracy. This is not so much because Benin is gradually approximating to a social democracy as that it is enthusiastically driving itself towards constitutionalism and a more or less firm commitment to the rule of law. It is at the latter level, not at that of progressive social-economic equalization, that Benin makes for interesting reading.
