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The analysis shows that African governments should try to retain their skilled personnel by significantly improving their economies so as to provide the basic necessities of life to their people. African governments should also democratise their political institutions and respect individual human rights. Finally, they should create a conducive socio political environment for the skilled professional to operate, otherwise even the most patriotic of them would be tempted to emigrate. (DSE)

Der Autor untersucht Probleme, Chancen und Perspektiven der 1991 auf dem OAU-Gipfel in Nigeria beschlossenen African Economic Community, die sich bis zum Jahr 2025 aus den verschiedenen Projekten der regionalen Integration als wirtschaftlicher Zusammenschluß aller afrikanischen Staaten entwickeln soll. Mit Nachdruck verweist der Autor darauf, daß Afrika in der Welt von morgen nur dann eine Chance hat, wenn es seine Kräfte durch regionale und kontinentale Integration bündelt.(DÜI-Kör)

Deconstructing International Relations (IR) episteme acknowledges its generation of power imbalances in security knowledge that relegate African experiences to the margins of global politics. Central to this process of relegation is a pervasive 'methodological whiteness', which, while eliding coloniality and racism, projects white experience as a universal perspective. Accompanying this Eurocentric bias has been the intrusive projection of the Weberian state as the most effective site for security governance and conflict prevention on a continent with states that are characterized by a hybridity of political orders, which deviate substantially from the ideal-type state that they seek to mimic. Not only has this resulted in disastrous policies in many parts of Africa, but critical questions arise as to the relevance of conventional IR and security studies as neutral sites for dispassionate knowledge production and policy-making on African security, thereby necessitating alternative perspectives. This article reflects on the ways in which IR and security studies have been responsible, in part, for the production of a racialized mode of security knowledge generation that obfuscates the security policies and experiences of people in African locales. It draws on insights from post-colonial discourses and the episteme of alternativity to explore how the study of events and processes in Africa in a theoretically conscious manner could advance IR scholarship as a whole. It contends that incorporating African experiences as they manifest through hybrid security orders can broaden the empirical base for IR theorizing about security since they offer another perspective outside the conventional western assumptions and experiences.

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Indigenous Conflict Management Strategies: Global Perspectives presents a variety of traditional conflict management approaches as well as several cases of both successful and unsuccessful integrations of indigenous and Western strategies. As it explores these approaches, this books also analyzes the central characteristics, strengths, and weaknesses of a multitude of indigenous systems from around the globe.