African Union’s Africa : New Pan-African Initiatives in Global Governance, Pa…

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African Union’s Africa : New Pan-African Initiatives in Global Governance, Paperback by Edozie, Rita Kiki; Gottschalk, Keith; Horne, Gerald C. (FRW), ISBN 1611861365, ISBN-13 9781611861365, Brand New, Free shipping in the US

This volume surveys the contributions and initiatives of the African Union, a Pan-African global governance institution aimed at transforming the national politics of Africa and demonstrating its agency in globalizing the practice of African politics. It explains the methodological, theoretical, structural, and historical foundations for framing the African Union as a political and global institution, including its comparison to the European Union, and its main structural components; issues and events that illustrate its global and national impact in the areas of political, cultural, and economic globalization, particularly security, African identity, democracy, and political economy, and the institutions involved; and future impacts on resources, organizational capacity, and legitimacy, and advancing Pan-African globalization and transforming and formulating a contemporary form of African politics. Annotation ©2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR ()