73148 - International Relations of Africa

Academic Year 2014/2015

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Forli
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in International relations and diplomatic affairs (cod. 8783)

Course contents

The first part of the course examines the early phase of interaction among African countries after independence and in particular the creation of the Organisation of African Unity. The second part analyses the regionalisation of security in Africa after the end of the Cold War. Relations between Africa and the European Union will be critically scrutinized. The third part of the course examines the creation of the African Union and and the genesis and outcomes of the New Partnership for Africa's Development.

Readings/Bibliography

Reading for students attending classes

A. Pallotti e M. Zamponi, L'Africa sub-sahariana nella politica internazionale, Firenze, Le Monnier-Mondadori, 2010.

A. Pallotti, Dossier: Unione Europea e Africa, in Afriche e Orienti, vol. 13, n. 1-2, 2011 (da pagina 5 a pagina 92).

J. Adésínà, Y. Graham & A. Olukoshi (eds), Africa and Development Challenges in the New Millennium. The NEPAD Debate, Dakar, CODESRIA, London, Zed Books & Pretoria, UNISA Press, 2006, capitoli 1, 4 e 6.

P. Carmody, The New Scramble for Africa, Cambridge, Polity Press, 2011.

T. Weiss, M. Wlez, The UN and the African Union in Mali and beyond: a shotgun wedding?, International Affairs , vol. 90, n. 4, 2014.

C. Alden, M. Shoeman, South Africa in the company of giants: the search for leadership in a transforming global order, International Affairs, vol. 89, no. 1, 2013.

H. Solomon, S outh Africa in Africa: A Case of High Expectations for Peace , in “South African Journal of International Affairs”, vol. 17, no. 2, 2010.

A. De Waal, African roles in the Libyan conflict of 2011, International Affairs , vol. 89, n. 2, 2013.

H. Melber, Engagement matters: South Africa, the United Nations and a rights-based foreign policy, South African Journal of International Affairs», vol. 21, no. 1, 2014.

C. Saunders, Military Intervention in Conflict Situations in Africa: Thoughts on South Africa's Role, in “ Strategic Review for Southern Africa”, vol. 35, no. 2, 2013.

Reading for students not attending classes

A. Pallotti e M. Zamponi, L'Africa sub-sahariana nella politica internazionale, Firenze, Le Monnier-Mondadori, 2010.

E. Schmidt, Foreign Intervention in Africa.From the Cold War to the War on Terror, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2013.

C. Alden, China in Africa, London, Zed Books, 2007.

M. Lee, The Political Economy of Regionalism in Southern Africa, Boulder, Lynne Rienner, 2003.

J. Adésínà, Y. Graham & A. Olukoshi (eds), Africa and Development Challenges in the New Millennium. The NEPAD Debate, Dakar, CODESRIA, London, Zed Books & Pretoria, UNISA Press, 2006.

 

Teaching methods

Lectures.

Students can find an Atlas of African History at the information desk of the Library R. Ruffilli and at the Ufficio didattico of the Faculty of Political Sciences "Roberto Ruffilli".

Assessment methods

Oral examination.

Teaching tools

Powerpoint

Office hours

See the website of Arrigo Pallotti