Australia and Africa
A New Friend from the South?
Series: Africa's Global Engagement: Perspectives from Emerging Countries;
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Product details:
- Edition number 1st ed. 2019
- Publisher Springer Nature Singapore
- Date of Publication 5 February 2019
- Number of Volumes 1 pieces, Book
- ISBN 9789811334221
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages187 pages
- Size 210x148 mm
- Weight 454 g
- Language English
- Illustrations XIX, 187 p. 8 illus. Illustrations, black & white 0
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This book offers analysis of Australia’s engagement with Africa, as well as the country’s rather unique status as a ‘new’ actor and emerging country in Africa. With its empirical originality and comparative contribution, the book fills a gap in both the study of Africa’s global engagement with emerging countries, and in connection with Australia’s largely unknown engagement with African states.
Australia has presented itself as Africa’s ‘friend from the south,’ without any colonial baggage, and is interested in a long-term partnership for trade and development. In this context, Australia is only one of many ‘new’ players seeking more intensive engagement with Africa since the end of the Cold War. At its core, the book argues that because of its largely unacknowledged ‘flawed’ historical engagement with Africa, as well as the political partisanship driving its fickle and volatile contemporary engagement with the continent, Australia suffers from an inability to assess its strategic and long-term interests – i.e., it doesn’t know what it wants in or from Africa. This makes Australia a rather unique emerging player in Africa: while other 'new' actors' engagement with Africa is generally strategic, and driven to a large extent by a desire to secure resources and counter the influence of geopolitical rivals, Australia’s efforts with regard to Africa are more episodic and not about acquiring resources or countering its rivals. Hence, while immigration, globalization, trade, terrorism, and climate change continue to bring Africa and Australia closer together, Australia’s failure to understand its own interests continues to hamper its engagement with Africa. MoreTable of Contents:
Introduction.- Section 1 Australia’s historical engagement with Africa.- Chapter 1 Colonials or Liberators? Early Australians in Africa.- Chapter 2 White Australia meets a decolonizing Africa.- Chapter 3 A new approach?.- Chapter 4 Brokering independence for Zimbabwe.- Chapter 5 The end of an Era.- Section 2 Australia’s contemporary engagement with Africa.- Chapter 6 The post-Cold War ‘Decline of Africa’.- Chapter 7 John Howard’s African paradox: It’s all about the Commonwealth.- Chapter 8 The millennial ‘Rise of Africa’.- Chapter 9 ‘New Engagement’ with Africa.- Chapter 10 Retreat from Africa?.- Chapter 11 Conclusion: The future of Australia and Africa.
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