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I position Francafrique within the theoretical framework of International Relations, and analyse it using regime theory. I show how this approach elucidates the nature and structure of Francafrique, and why it is especially valuable for assessing the continuity and changes of Franco-African relations during the past two decades. This approach helps us to determine whether we may speak of the normalization, the incremental adaptation or, instead, the confusion of France's African policy today. The question is discussed using the concrete example of France's foreign policy towards Cote d'Ivoire since 2000. I argue that this dynamic model of the interaction between structure and agents, which takes into account the complexity of the interplay of the systemic and domestic factors in state actors' foreign policy decision-making, contributes to a better understanding of the dynamics of North-South relations. [Reprinted by permission; copyright Sage Publications Ltd. & ECPR-European Consortium for Political Research.]

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Editor -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Dedication -- List of Figures -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 Things -- 2 Sexonomics -- 3 Smells -- 4 Species -- 5 Intersections -- 6 Failures -- 7 Explications -- References -- Index.

First published in 1958, The Foundations of Political Theory strives to answer essential questions of politics by studying its foundations. In this book, Mr. Greaves treats the state as only one among several associations whose function is to promote entirely human ends. He tries to reinterpret such ideas as self-realization' and the good life' in ways acceptable to students of contemporary philosophy, who reject the theological and metaphysical doctrines these ideas have been tied to in the past. He insists that men get their moral standards and their ideas about what makes life worth living by reflecting on their experience; that there are no ultimate and self-evident moral principles. While admitting that moral standards are subjective in the sense that we cannot explain how men come to have them except by showing how they serve their needs, he refuses to allow that rational argument about them is therefore impossible. Since men are rational, since they have purposes and ideals and not merely desires, and since they know that to realize these purposes they must live with others, there are moral standards acceptable to all men when their function is understood.

This book demonstrates that theory in literary and cultural studies has moved beyond overarching master theories towards a greater awareness of particularity and contingency ℓ́ℓ including its own. What is the place of literary and cultural theory after the Age of Theory has ended? Grouping its chapters into rubrics of metatheory, cultural theory, critical theory and textual theory, the collection demonstrates that the practice of ℓ́ℓdoing theoryℓ́ℓ has neither lost its vitality nor can it be in any way dispensable. Current directions covered include the renewed interest in phenomenology, the increased acknowledgement of the importance of media history for all cultural practices and formations, complexity studies, new narratology, literary ethics, cultural ecology, and an intensified interest in textual as well as cultural matter

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