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Cover -- Half Title -- Dedication -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction: African-Arab-OECD Triangular Cooperation -- PART 1 GEOPOLITICS AND ARMS TRANSFERS -- 2. Eurafrica, Eurabia, and African-Arab Relations: The Tensions of Tripolarity -- 3. African-Arab-OECD Military Relations: The Recycling of Imperialism -- PART 2 NATURAL RESOURCES, OIL BILLS, AND PATTERNS OF TRADE -- 4. Resources, Scarcity, and Development Priorities in Sub-Saharan Africa -- 5. Africa, the Energy Crisis, and the Triangular Relationship -- 6. Patterns of Trade and Prospects for Growth in a Trireglonal System: Arab Oil Exporters, Sub-Saharan Developing Africa, and the OECD -- PART 3 PETROFUNDS AND THE LEGAL FRAMEWORK FOR TRIANGULAR COOPERATION -- 7. Financial Flows from the Arab Middle East and the OECD Nations to Sub-Saharan Africa: An Assessment and Prospects -- 8. Arab Aid to Black Africa: Myth Versus Reality -- 9. The Legal Framework for Transnational Investment and Lending in Sub-Saharan Africa -- List of Abbreviations -- About the Editor and Contributors -- Index.

First published in 1972.

Bewertung der afrikanisch-arabischen Beziehungen, wobei versucht wird, folgende Fragen zu klären: wie schätzen sich Afrikaner und Araber gegenseitig ein, welches sind die Quellen ihrer Vorstellungen von dem jeweiligen anderen Partner, sind die arabischen Verhaltensweisen gegenüber den Afrikaner (und umgekehrt) hinderliche oder fördernde Faktoren bei der interregionalen Zusammenarbeit zwischen Afrika und den arabischen Ländern, welches sind die großen politischen und wirtschaftlichen Herausforderungen der beiden Regionen und wie haben ihre jeweiligen Führungen darauf reagiert. (DÜI-Ott)

The history of the Arabs in Africa has included a number of contradictions. The Arabs have been both conquerors and liberators, both traders in slaves and purveyors of new ideas. With the Arabs came both Islam and commerce. Indeed, trade and Islam have been companions throughout much of the modern history of Africa north of the Zambezi. In Northern and West Africa caravans of Muslim traders go back for centuries. In East Africa others have come for a millenium from the Gulf of Oman and Southern Arabia, consciously engaged in cultural dissemination. The spread of Islam in Africa has been due far less to consciously organized missionary activity than to trade and conquest. Ali A. Mazrui

During the 1970s, enthusiasts for Africian – Arab solidarity emphasised the potential benefits of political co-operation and economic partnership between sub-Saharan Africa and the Arab Middle East. The interest in such a relationship gained momentum among African and Arab Head of States, culminating in their summit meeting in Cairo in March 1977. It is now time to examine both the basis of the euphoria and the prospects, or lack of them, for the development of a comprehensive and durable relationship between the contiguous regions.

Zum gegenwärtigen Zeitpunkt gibt es keine grundlegenden Ergebnisse der Solidarität zwischen den arabischen und afrikanischen Ländern; nach der Euphorie der frühen 70er Jahre (Resolution zum arabisch-israelischen Konflikt und zum Rassenkonflikt in Südafrika) hat sich verlegener Optimismus breitgemacht

Theshrinking political arena in Africa,1caused by the authoritarian practices of presidential monarchs, has more often than not undermined the process of legitimation, as those who have not 'fallen into things' resort to unconstitutional means to gain access to political and economic kingdoms. Hitherto, political competition has become a raw power struggle, partly as a result of the absence of stable institutions for channelling and ordering politics,2and partly because political leadership is so divided that it has failed to give form to statecraft. The failure of the first generation of African politicians has consequently encouraged the military to intervene and to sack them. But the African army has also experienced divisions and factions. Its record has not been impressive. Thus, in most African countries, the political situation has deteriorated progressively to praetorianism.3