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Locating Africa on the global stage, this book examines and compares external involvement in the continent, exploring the foreign policies of major states and international organizations towards Africa. The contributors work within a political economy framework in order to study how these powers have attempted to stimulate democracy, peace and prosperity in the context of neo-liberal hegemony and ask whom these attempts have benefited and failed.

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 The Lack of Interest for Seaports in the International Law and Doctrine -- References -- 2 The Port and the International Law in General: A Land Appendix -- References -- 3 The Port and the Law of the Sea: An Accessory to the Waters -- References -- The Pre-industrial Port -- 4 Paolo Sarpi's Legal Doctrine -- References -- 5 The Colonial Factories -- References -- The Industrial Port -- 6 The Longshoremen's Organizations -- References -- 7 The 1923 Geneva Convention on Seaports -- References -- 8 The Forgotten Ports and Port Installations: Lotus Case, Wimbledon Case, Suez Crisis -- References -- 9 When You are Forced to Remember the Port: The Laws of Wars from the Hague Conventions to the Cuban Crisis -- References -- 10 The Mar del Plata Convention -- References -- 11 The Montego Bay Convention -- References -- The Port of Globalization -- 12 An Unprecedented Economic Significance and the Ascendance of the Multinational Terminal Operators -- References -- 13 The Decline of the Longshoremen's Organizations and Their Resistance in Europe -- References -- 14 Flags of Convenience and Port State Control -- References -- 15 Port Security: The Dubai Ports World Case and the ISPS Code -- References -- 16 From the Traditional to the Multimodal Seaport: The Right to Access -- References -- 17 Seaports in International Commercial Law -- References -- Assessment and Perspectives -- 18 Common Features in the International Regulation of Seaports -- References -- 19 A Contribution from Private International Law and Some Municipal Legal Orders -- References -- 20 Starting from a Unitary Notion of Port -- References.

This article reviews contextualist methods in intellectual history and discusses some of the specific challenges involved in their application to the study of International Relations (IR) and hence international intellectual history. While the broad thrust of these developments has been highly positive, the article argues that a distinction between classic and lesser works is a crucial part of the apparatus of the contextualist approach, which poses a problem in IR, where the idea of an established canon of great works has historically been less well developed than in the study of Political Theory or Law. As a result, the move towards contextualist methods of interpretation can force authors to restrict their focus onto a newly conceived, and somewhat narrow, canon, with a strongly political and legal flavour. The eclectic range of earlier, albeit less methodologically sophisticated, histories offer considerable resources for defining the scope of new empirical enquiries in international intellectual history, and the article concentrates on early modern journalism as an example of this opportunity.

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