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1. Introduction -- 2. The slowdown and real interest rates -- 3. The slowdown and asset prices -- 4. The slowdown and the share of profits -- 5. The slowdown in the data -- 6. Losing ground to China and other countries -- 7. The pandemic and its aftermath -- 8. Growth to the Rescue.

Case study rich, this volume advances our understanding of the significance of 'the city' in global governance. The editors call for innovation in international relations theory with case studies that add breadth to theorizing the role sub-national political actors play in global affairs. Each of the eight case studies demonstrates different intersections between the local and the global and how these intersections alter the conditions resulting from globalization processes. The case studies do so by focusing on one of three sub-themes: the diverse ways in which cities and sub-national regions impact nation-state foreign policy; the various dimensions of urban imbrications in global environmental politics; or the multiple methods and standards used to measure the global roles of cities.

1. Africa in global international relations : emerging approaches to theory and practice, an introduction / Paul-Henri Bischoff, Kwesi Aning and Amitav Acharya -- 2. A critique of failing international relations theories in African tests / Ahmed Ali Salem -- 3. Subversion of an ordinary kind : gender, security and everyday theory in Africa / Heidi Hudson -- 4. Disciplining the developing world? Perspectives from a South African IR / Candice Moore -- 5. African agency in international relations : challenging great power politics? / Lesley Blaauw -- 6. Africa in international relations : agent, bystander or victim? / Jo-Ansie vanWyck -- 7. An emerging, established or receding normative agent? Probing the African Union's recent response to and intervention in Libya / Gerrie Swart -- 8. Africanizing the international and internationalizing Africa : security, war on terror and Mali / Kwesi Aning and Nancy Annan -- 9. Bridging the gap : the pan-African school and international relations theory / Tim Murithi.

"The claim that world politics looks different depending upon one's location is now commonplace within the field of International Relations (IR). This exciting new textbook offers students a text that speaks to the main concepts, categories and issues of world politics from the vantagepoints of the global South. International Relations from the Global South: Worlds of Difference examines the ways in which world politics have been addressed by traditional core approaches and explores the limitations of these treatments for understanding both Southern and Northern experiences of the "international". The book encourages the reader to consider how key ideas have been developed in the discipline, and through systematic interventions by contributors from around the globe, aims at both transforming and enriching the dominant terms of scholarly debate. Each chapter is written according to a common structure, providing concrete examples of global South perspectives on world affairs, as well as discussion questions and suggestions for further reading. Drawing on a wide range of literatures, case studies and knowledges, this textbook is the first to speak to and from the global South, and will provide a new dimension to a variety of courses on international relations and IR theory. It is essential reading for students and teachers alike"--

"This book examines military and civilian actors in international interventions and offers a new analytical framework to apply on such interventions. While it is frequently claimed that success in international interventions hinges largely on military-civilian coherence, cooperation has proven challenging to achieve in practice. This book examines why this is the case, by analysing various approaches employed by military and civilian actors and discussing the different relationships between the intervening actors and those upon whom they have intervened. The work analyses different military concepts, such as peacekeeping and counterinsurgency, and the often-troubled relationship between the humanitarian and military intervening actors. It presents a new analytical framework to examine these relationships based on identification theory, which illuminates how the interveners represent those they have been deployed to engage, as well as their own identity and role. As such the book offers an enhanced understanding of the challenges related to civil-military cooperation in international interventions, as well as a theoretical contribution to the study of interventions, more generally. This book will be of much interest to students of international interventions, military studies, peacekeeping, security studies and International Relations"--

Sub-Saharan Africa continues to record strong economic growth, despite the weaker global economic environment. Regional output rose by 5 percent in 2011, with growth set to increase slightly in 2012, helped by still-strong commodity prices, new resource exploitation, and the improved domestic conditions that have underpinned several years of solid trend growth in the region's low-income countries. But there is variation in performance across the region, with output in middle-income countries tracking more closely the global slowdown and with some sub-regions adversely affected, at least tempor