Emerging powers, emerging markets, emerging societies: global responses
In: International affairs, Band 93, Heft 5, S. 1262-1263
ISSN: 1468-2346
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In: International affairs, Band 93, Heft 5, S. 1262-1263
ISSN: 1468-2346
In: Review of African political economy, Band 39, Heft 131
ISSN: 1740-1720
In: Review of African political economy, Band 39, Heft 131, S. 193-194
ISSN: 0305-6244
In: African affairs: the journal of the Royal African Society, Band 109, Heft 437, S. 686-687
ISSN: 1468-2621
In: African affairs: the journal of the Royal African Society, Band 109, Heft 437, S. 686-688
ISSN: 0001-9909
In: The journal of modern African studies: a quarterly survey of politics, economics & related topics in contemporary Africa, Band 46, Heft 1, S. 164-165
ISSN: 1469-7777
In: International affairs, Band 83, Heft 6, S. 1224-1225
ISSN: 0020-5850
In: International affairs, Band 79, Heft 2, S. 467-468
ISSN: 0020-5850
In: International affairs, Band 78, Heft 3, S. 615-616
ISSN: 0020-5850
In: International affairs, Band 78, Heft 4, S. 940
ISSN: 0020-5850
With the Cotonou Agreement due to expire in 2020, formal negotiations towards a new partnership agreement between the EU and African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) states began in September 2018. Based on the acceptance of the EU's negotiating mandate, the new arrangement will be primarily organised via three specific regional protocols with each of the ACP regions. Meanwhile, the Joint Africa-EU Strategy (JAES) launched in 2007, has seen the African Union (AU) gain increased prominence as an institutional partner of the EU. Given its ambitious pan-African agenda, it adopted an alternative 'African' vision for future EU-ACP relations, to the mandate agreed by the ACP states and expressed a willingness to become directly involved in the negotiations. This article contributes an important new case-study to the existing literature on 'African agency' in international politics by considering the scope for Africa to exert agency within the post-Cotonou negotiations, given the negotiation of a specific regional compact with Africa. It adopts a structurally embedded view of agency, based on Cox's understanding of historical structures, as a fit between institutions, ideas and material relations. The central argument is that, in comparison to the negotiation of the Cotonou Agreement two decades ago, there is greater scope for African agency. However, both the ideational and material aspects of Africa's relationship with the EU, condition the limits to how effective such agency might be. Moreover, tensions at the institutional level between the ACP and AU further undermine the potential for effective African agency.
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In: Journal of contemporary European research: JCER, Band 16, Heft 2
ISSN: 1815-347X
With the Cotonou Agreement due to expire in 2020, formal negotiations towards a new partnership agreement between the EU and African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) states began in September 2018. Based on the acceptance of the EU's negotiating mandate, the new arrangement will be primarily organised via three specific regional protocols with each of the ACP regions. Meanwhile, the Joint Africa-EU Strategy (JAES) launched in 2007, has seen the African Union (AU) gain increased prominence as an institutional partner of the EU. Given its ambitious pan-African agenda, it adopted an alternative 'African' vision for future EU-ACP relations, to the mandate agreed by the ACP states and expressed a willingness to become directly involved in the negotiations. This article contributes an important new case-study to the existing literature on 'African agency' in international politics by considering the scope for Africa to exert agency within the post-Cotonou negotiations, given the negotiation of a specific regional compact with Africa. It adopts a structurally embedded view of agency, based on Cox's understanding of historical structures, as a fit between institutions, ideas and material relations. The central argument is that, in comparison to the negotiation of the Cotonou Agreement two decades ago, there is greater scope for African agency. However, both the ideational and material aspects of Africa's relationship with the EU, condition the limits to how effective such agency might be. Moreover, tensions at the institutional level between the ACP and AU further undermine the potential for effective African agency.
The EU has in recent years adopted the International Labour Organisation's Decent Work Agenda in its external trade and development policy. It is portrayed as a way to mitigate any negative impacts on labour. However, African trade unions have campaigned against the EU's Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs). It is argued that their stance highlights the limitations of incorporating the Decent Work Agenda into trade agreements, which instead are seen as central to the process of entrenching economic liberalisation. As a result, the article considers the prospects for transnational labour solidarity to resist EPAs.
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In: Capital & class, Band 41, Heft 2, S. 291-313
ISSN: 2041-0980
This article addresses the question of 'the left' in contemporary South Africa in two senses: first, in terms of assessing the health of leftist politics; second, it asks to what extent are the self-identified left progressive in any meaningful sense. The first half of this article reflects on the current development situation in South Africa. Here, it is argued that within most sections of the South African left, there is broad agreement on the need to address the triple challenge of unemployment, rising inequality and poverty. The second half of this article identifies three broad sections to the contemporary left in South Africa (the Tripartite Alliance, the left outside the Alliance and the remnants of the revolutionary socialist left). It argues that the left within the Alliance, despite the launch of the New Growth Path, are failing to implement the sufficiently radical policy changes that are required to address the development challenges identified in the first half of this article. The left outside the Alliance, meanwhile, despite recent attempts at coordination, lacks influence and remains disconnected from the masses.
In: Third world thematics: a TWQ journal, Band 1, Heft 4, S. 547-562
ISSN: 2379-9978