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Part I : Technology diffusion : the spread of mobile calling and internet -- Prologue (1986-2004) -- 1. Mobile voice calling booms (1993-2004) -- 2. Bandwidth as the digital economy's fuel : getting sub-Saharan Africa connected (1991-2015) -- 3. Cheaper mobile internet and low-cost smartphones come together with apps sub-Saharan Africans want to use (2005-2018) -- Part II : Technology influences : uses, behaviours and abuses -- 4. Mobile money : from transfering cash by SMS to digital payments ecosystem (2000-20) -- 5. Sub-Saharan Africans start to live the digital life (2000-20) -- 6. Sprinkling on the magic dust : digital's impact on development (1982-2020) -- 7. The ugly underbelly of the communications revolution : corruption, cronyism, regulation and government (1999-2020) -- Part III : Taking the long-view : start-up innovation and complex behaviour change -- 8. Sub-Saharan African start-ups : getting beyond the hype to address deep market challenges (1995-2020) -- 9. Doing complexity : making sense of what has happened over thirty-five years

Introduction : eight years in power : assessing Prime Minister Abe's legacy / James Brown, Guibourg Delamotte, and Robert Dujarric -- Transformation of domestic politics : Abe's durable legacy? / Nonaka Naoto -- Abe Shinzō's economic legacy / R. Taggart Murphy -- Pandemic downsizes Prime Minister Abe Shinzō / Jeff Kingston -- Gender policies and conservative values / Murakami Hiromi -- Prime Minister Abe's security policy : a broader spectrum / Guibourg Delamotte -- Japanese military diplomacy : Abe's security legacy? / Alessio Patalano -- Japan-US relations / Minohara Toshihiro -- Japan's diplomacy toward China under the Abe Shinzō administration / Soeya Yoshihide -- Recriminations & deepened distrust : assessing PM Abe's legacy of mismanaging Japan-ROK relations / Laney Bahan and David Satter White -- Abe Shinzō and the securitization of Japan-North Korea relations / Benoît Hardy-Chartrand -- Testing a theory to destruction : Abe's legacy and relations with Russia / James Brown -- Japan's foreign policy towards the Middle East and Africa under Abe / Kakizaki Masaki -- Japan's global image / Nancy Snow -- Japan and the world under Abe Shinzō's premiership : trying to become a rules-maker / Robert Dujarric.

"Westerners on both the left and right overwhelmingly equate globalization with Westernization and presume that the global economy is a pure Western-creation. While such a conception flatters the Western ego, this book challenges it via more inclusive thinking. It reveals the multicultural origins of globalization and the global economy, not so as to marginalise the West but to show how it has long been embedded in complex interconnections and interactions with non-Western actors/agents and processes. The central empirical theme is the role of Indian structural power that was derived from Indian cotton textiles, which organised and linked the first global economy together (1500-1850) and performed a vital, albeit indirect, role in the making of modern Western industrialization and the second (modern) global economy post-1850. These textiles underpinned the complex inter-relations between Africa, West and Central/East Asia, Southeast Asia, the Americas and Europe that collectively drove global economic development forward."

Chapter 1. Introduction: I am not an Africanist -- Chapter 2. The politician's words against the empire's weapons -- Chapter 3. Sow doubt, aestheticize, essentialize: How to write about African leaders -- Chapter 4. Killing hope in the Congo -- Chapter 5. The agency's kingmaker -- Chapter 6. The revolutionary and the white supremacist -- Chapter 7. The tyrant subcontractors: America's chosen African dictators, 1965-1985 -- Chapter 8. Economic poison: Western economic medicine before the Rwanda genocide and Congo wars of the 1990s -- Chapter 9. The peacekeeper and the warlord -- Chapter 10. Good and evil: How Africanists present Hutus as deserving of death -- Chapter 11. The infrastructure of judgment and denial -- Chapter 12. The state Kagame built -- Chapter 13. Stories from the African Mind -- Chapter 14. The front men and the refugees: The Congo War 1996-7 -- Chapter 15. The nuance to protect an empire -- Chapter 16. The warlord's aide and the broken alliance: The 1998-2003 Congo War -- Chapter 17. Conclusion: The empire's system for Central Africa. .

Sustainable Urban Mobility Pathways examines how sustainable urban mobility solutions contribute to achieving worldwide sustainable development and global climate change targets, while also identifying barriers to implementation and strategies to overcome them. Building on city-to-city cooperation experiences in Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America, the book examines key challenges in the context of the Paris Agreement, UN Sustainable Development Goals and the New Urban Agenda, including policies needed to achieve a sustainable, low-carbon pathway for transport and how an integrated policy strategy is designed to provide a basis for political coalitions. The book explores which institutional framework creates sufficient political stability and continuity to foster the take-up of and long-term support for sustainable transport strategies. The linkages of climate change and wider sustainable development objectives are covered, including success stories, best practices, and quantitative analysis for key emerging economies in public transport, walking, cycling, freight and logistics, vehicle technology and fuels, urban planning and integration, and national framework policies

Disaster Risk Governance offers the first extensive engagement with disaster risk governance in the Caribbean and Sub-Saharan Africa. In the last decade and a half Kenya, Jamaica, Dominica, and Zanzibar have all suffered massive destruction from disasters caused by natural hazards. Despite the tremendous investments in disaster risk reduction (DRR), disasters have wiped out the developmental gains of these countries. In this book, Denise Thompson argues that disaster risk governance (DRG) as a practical and academic matter has not been given the attention it deserves, and as a result, this neglect has undermined the time, money and resources invested in DRR in developing countries since the late 1970s and early 1980s. Thompson proposes that properly conceptualizing DRG based on context will help to address some of the deficiencies. Consequently, DRG needs to become a central focus, particularly for developing countries. Written with real-life implications for developing countries, Disaster Risk Governance is perfectly suited for practitioners and researchers in area studies, disaster risk reduction and disaster governance, as well as students of disaster studies.

As part of the emerging new research on civic innovation, this book explores how sexual politics and gender relations play out in feminist struggles around body politics in Brazil, Colombia, India, Iran, Mexico, Nepal, Turkey, Nicaragua, as well as in East Africa, Latin America and global institutions and networks. From diverse disciplinary perspectives, the book looks at how feminists are engaged in a complex struggle for democratic power in a neoliberal age and at how resistance is integral to possibilities for change. In making visible resistances to dominant economic and social policies, the book highlights how such struggles are both gendered and gendering bodies. The chapters explore struggles for healthy environments, sexual health and reproductive rights, access to abortion, an end to gender-based violence, the human rights of LGBTIQA persons, the recognition of indigenous territories and all peoples' rights to care, love and work freely. The book sets out the violence, hopes, contradictions and ways forward in these civic innovations, resistances and connections across the globe

"African ethics is primarily concerned with community and harmonious communal relationships. The claim is frequently made on behalf of African moral beliefs and customs that African society does not objectify and exploit nature and natural existents, unlike Western moral attitudes and practices. This book investigates whether this claim is correct by examining religious and philosophical thought, as well as traditional cultural practices in Africa. Through exploration of what kind of status is reserved for other-than-human animals in African ethics, Horsthemke argues that moral perceptions and attitudes on the African continent remain resolutely anthropocentric, or human-centred. Although values like ubuntu (humanness) and ukama (relationality) have been expanded to include nonhuman nature, animals have no rights, and human duties to them are almost exclusively 'indirect'. Animals and African Ethics concludes by asking whether those who, following their own liberation, continue to exploit and oppress other creatures, are not thereby contributing to their own dehumanization. "

"This book presents a unique, interdisciplinary approach to disaster risk research, combining cutting-edge natural science and social science methodologies. Bringing together leading scientists, policy makers and practitioners from around the world, it presents the risks of global hazards such as volcanoes, seismic events, landslides, hurricanes, precipitation floods and space weather, and provides real-world hazard case studies from Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, the Middle East, Asia and the Pacific region. Avoiding complex mathematics, the authors provide insight into topics such as the vulnerability of society, disaster risk reduction policy, relations between disaster policy and climate change, adaptation to hazards, and (re)insurance approaches to extreme events. This is a key resource for academic researchers and graduate students in a wide range of disciplines linked to hazard and risk studies, including geophysics, volcanology, hydrology, atmospheric science, geomorphology, oceanography and remote sensing, and for professionals and policy makers working in disaster prevention and mitigation"--

"In China Goes Global, eminent China scholar David Shambaugh delivers the book that the world has been waiting for--a sweeping account of China's growing prominence on the international stage. Thirty years ago, China's role in global affairs beyond its immediate East Asian periphery was decidedly minor and it had little geostrategic power. As Shambaugh charts, though, China's expanding economic power has allowed it to extend its reach virtually everywhere--from mineral mines in Africa, to currency markets in the West, to oilfields in the Middle East, to agribusiness in Latin America, to the factories of East Asia. Shambaugh offers an enlightening look into the manifestations of China's global ambitions: its extensive commercial footprint, its growing military power, its increasing cultural influence or "soft power," its diplomatic activity, and its new prominence in global governance institutions. But Shambaugh is no alarmist. In this balanced and well-researched volume, he argues that China's global presence is more broad than deep and that China still lacks the influence befitting a major world power--what he terms a "partial power." "--

Introduction Maria Amparo Cruz-Saco and Sergei Zelenev * Part One. Analytical Framework Maria Amparo Cruz-Saco, "Intergenerational Solidarity" * Vern L. Bengtson and Petrice S. Oyama, "Intergenerational Solidarity and Conflict: What Does it Mean and What are the Big Issues?" * Ariela Lowenstein, "Determinants of the Complex Interchange among Generations: Collaboration and Conflict" * Part Two. Main Issues and Programs * Donna M. Butts, "Key Issues Uniting Generations" * Elizabeth Larkin, "Who is Needy and Who Should Give Care? * Shannon E. Jarrott, "Programmes that Affect Intergenerational Solidarity" * Sanchez, Mariano, Juan Saez and Sacramento Pinazo, "Intergenerational Solidarity, Programs and Policy Development" * Part Three. Developing Countries * Maria Amparo Cruz-Saco, "Demographic Transition and Intergenerational Transfers in Peru" * Jacqueline Mazza, "Labor Markets and Social Inclusion in Latin America and the Caribbean: Perspectives for Inter-generational Solidarity" * Moneer Alam, "Is Caring for Elders and Act of Altruism?" * Akpovire Oduaran, "Exploration of Intergenerational Relationships in Sub-Saharan Africa" * Conclusions Maria Amparo Cruz-Saco and Sergei Zelenev, "Conclusions: Putting it all together"

chapter Introduction -- part Part I The case for regionalism with a strong social dimension -- chapter 1 Regional formations and global governance -- chapter 2 Globalization, regional integration and social policy -- chapter 3 Regional social policy from above: International organizations and regional social policy -- chapter 4 Regional social policy from below: Reclaiming regional integration: social movements and civil society organizations as key protagonists -- part Part II The social policy dimensions of regional integration: Case studies from four continents -- chapter 5 Social policies and rights in the European Union and the Council of Europe: Exhortation, regulation and enforcement -- chapter 6 Regional social policies in Latin America: Binding material for a young giant? -- chapter 7 Regional social policies in Asia: Prospects and challenges from the ASEAN and SAARC experiences -- chapter 8 Regional social policies in Africa: Declarations abound -- part Part III Regional social integration and global social governance -- chapter 9 The evolving context of world- regional social policy -- chapter 10 Global social governance and world- regional social policy.

Klappentext: In virtually every sport in which they are given opportunity to compete, people of African descent dominate. East Africans own every distance running record. Professional sports in the Americas are dominated by men and women of West African descent. Why have blacks come to dominate sports? Are they somehow physically better? And why are we so uncomfortable when we discuss this? Drawing on the latest scientific research, journalist Jon Entine makes an irrefutable case for black athletic superiority. We learn how scientists have used numerous, bogus "scientific" methods to prove that blacks were either more or less superior physically, and how racist scientists have often equated physical prowess with intellectual deficiency. Entine recalls the long, hard road to integration, both on the field and in society. And he shows why it isn't just being black that matters - it makes a huge difference as to where in Africa your ancestors are from.Equal parts sports, science and examination of why this topic is so sensitive, Taboois a book that will spark national debate.

AbstractWe study whether present‐day women's political participation in sub‐Saharan Africa is associated to the temporary gender ratio imbalances caused by the transatlantic and Indian Ocean slave trades, taking into account pre‐existing gender norms influenced by kinship structures. To study the interrelatedness between historical exposure to the slave trades, patrilineality and their association to contemporary women's political participation, we use individual‐level data for 35,595 women from 28 sub‐Saharan African countries from three rounds of Afrobarometer surveys, georeferenced to historical ethnic region kinship and slave trade data. Our findings suggest that a woman's ethnic region historical exposure to the transatlantic slave trade is associated with an increase in her likelihood to vote today, however, only in non‐patrilineal ethnic regions. This effect is mitigated in patrilineal ethnic regions, where women have less decision‐making power. This paper contributes to the literature on the contemporary sub‐national effects of the slave trades and the historical causes of gender gaps in political participation.