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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Sources of Messianism and pragmatism -- 2 The rise and fall of Nikita S. Khrushchev -- 3 Up the down staircase: the era of Leonid Brezhnev -- The defeat that turned into success -- The Middle East in Soviet military strategy -- A semi-victory turned into defeat -- Sliding downhill -- Lost opportunities -- The human dimension -- 4 "Ardent revolutionaries, loyal friends" -- the USSR and the Communist movement -- 5 An exotic flower of Arabia -- 6 Through the looking glass, or the decision-making process -- Quadrangle: Ministry of Foreign Affairs – International Department of the Central Committee – State Security Committee – Ministry of Defence -- Personalities in big politics -- Diplomats: Their pluses, minuses, capabilities -- 7 Afghanistan: Russia's unhealed wound -- "Cannot lose Afghanistan" -- "History gives no answer" -- The logic of the fateful decision -- Seeking a solution -- 8 Messianism in decline: the time of Mikhail Gorbachev -- 9 Foreign policy and domestic policy: the USSR, Israel and the Palestinians -- 10 Storms in alien deserts -- 11 Cursed Nineties -- Ignore not interfere . . . -- The Madrid process and the fate of the "mother of all conflicts" -- Russia–Israel: "Friendship" with reservations -- The minefields of Iraq -- Turkey: a privileged trade partner -- Difficult movement towards each other -- A desirable partner -- 12 To return, but how? -- The attempts to keep Iraq as a partner -- The years and the fruit of real pragmatism: Russian-Turkish relations -- "A good neighbour, but neighbours are not chosen": the Russian Federation and Iran -- Afghanistan: far, but in some ways close -- Russia and the countries of the Arabian Peninsula: certain progress -- A partnership but not an alliance (Russia and Egypt in the 2000s)

Chapter 1 African Summitry: Representation of "External Other" in the "Power Transit" Era -- Part 1: African Agency in Post-Pandemic World -- Chapter 2: The Interface between Article 4(h) of the Constitutive Act and the African People's Agency: The Role of the AU in Post-Pandemic African Diplomacy -- Chapter 3: The Global Demographic Change and Africa-Asia Relations: Beyond Big Power Summits -- Chapter 4: Post-Covid-19 African Development Challenges in African Think Tanks Studies -- Chapter 5: Cameroon and China Educational Cooperation in the Post-Covid Era: The Case of Chinese Language Teaching and Learning -- Chapter 6: Promotion Strategies for Mitigating the Impact of Covid-19 on Kenya's Exports -- Chapter 7: Intra-Africa Trade in Services and the AFCFTA -- Chapter 8: Trading African Art at Sotheby's: a Story Told by Lions or Hunters? -- Part 2: Great powers summits on cooperation with Africa -- Chapter 9: Diplomacy on regional and inter-regional Levels: What works, why and for whom? -- Chapter 10: The EU and Turkey's Development Aid Policies in Sub-Saharan Africa: Unpacking the Similarities and Differences -- Chapter 11: TICAD and FOCAC Summit Diplomacy: Similarities and Differences -- Chapter 12: Beyond Summitry: The Role of Hard and Soft Power in Turkey's Africa Strategy -- Chapter 13: Decoding of Turkey's Last Two Decades in Africa -- Part 3: Healthcare cooperation and regional initiatives in Africa -- Chapter 14: Resource flows in D R Congo public health and healthcare in the Covid-19 pandemic -- Chapter 15: China in fight against COVID-19 and its consequences for Africa -- Chapter 16: EU efforts to increase the pandemic preparedness on a global scale before the COVID-19 outbreak -- Chapter 17: India-Africa: development cooperation in healthcare -- Part 4: Conflicts and Political Process Despite COVID Pandemics -- Chapter 18: Managing Conflict and political processes despite COVID-19 -- Chapter 19: The African Union – United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID): Mission Accomplished? -- Chapter 20: The EU Peacekeeping Strategy in Mali: Challenges and Prospects -- Chapter 21: Land Conflicts in Cote d'Ivoire in 1990's as a Premise for the Civil War -- Chapter 22: The Oromo Revolution: How Has Interethnic Relations Changed in Ethiopia? -- Chapter 23: Conflict Development and African Union Security Management Capacity Challenges.

Part One: Legacy of Decolonization -- Sixty Years Later: Africa's Stalled Decolonization -- Post-Colonial Period in the History of Africa: Development Challenges -- Rethinking the Role of Araujo Castro in Brazilian Position on the Decolonization of Africa -- USSR and the Nkrumah's Project of the Union of African States, 1963-1965. (Based on Russian Archival Materials) -- Part Two: Emerging Powers and Africa in the context of Multipolar World Formation -- Designs of the Four: Comparing African Strategies of Russia, China, US and EU against the Backdrop of the (re-)Emerging Bipolarity -- Russia–Africa: New Cooperation Prospects in a Changing World -- Africa's Shadow Rise and the Mirage of Economic Development -- Security and Development in China-Africa Contemporary Cooperation -- Costs and Benefits of China's Role in Southern Africa -- Africa in the Hierarchy of China's Core National Interests -- Part Three: African Solutions to African Problems: the Role of Africans in Peacekeeping -- The African Union and Peacekeeping in Africa: Challenges and Opportunities -- African Peacekeeping and African Integration: Current Challenges -- IGAD's Mediation and Peacekeeping in Africa: Challenges and Perspective -- Women's Participation in the United Nations Peacekeeping Operations: Overcoming Barriers -- Farmer-Herders Conflict as a Challenge to National Unity in Nigeria -- Part Four: Mental Decolonization through Non-Western International Relations Theories -- Analytic Afrocentricity and the Future of African Studies -- African Foreign Policy Thought and Classical Political Doctrines: the Commonality of Ethical and Axiological Grounds -- In Quest of African IR Theories: Panafricanism and National Ideologies, Critical Theories or Post-colonial Studies? -- An African Worldview on International Relations: Theory and State Policy -- Part Five: Decolonization in the 21st Century and Future Perspectives -- Problem of African Agency in International Relations from the European Union Viewpoint -- Information Dependence as the Neocolonialism of the 21st Century: Past, Present, Future. .