| 期刊全称 | Australia and Africa | | 期刊简称 | A New Friend from th | | 影响因子2023 | Nikola Pijović | | 视频video | | | 发行地址 | Explains the history and evolution of Australia’s engagement with African states, outlining what Australia is pursuing and wants to achieve in Africa.Draws on interviews with high-level sources – Aust | | 学科分类 | Africa‘s Global Engagement: Perspectives from Emerging Countries | | 图书封面 |  | | 影响因子 | .This book offers analysis of Australia’s engagement with Africa, as well as the country’s rather unique status as a ‘new’ actor and emerging country in Africa. With its empirical originality and comparative contribution, the book fills a gap in both the study of Africa’s global engagement with emerging countries, and in connection with Australia’s largely unknown engagement with African states. .Australia has presented itself as Africa’s ‘friend from the south,’ without any colonial baggage, and is interested in a long-term partnership for trade and development. In this context, Australia is only one of many ‘new’ players seeking more intensive engagement with Africa since the end of the Cold War. At its core, the book argues that because of its largely unacknowledged ‘flawed’ historical engagement with Africa, as well as the political partisanship driving its fickle and volatile contemporary engagement with the continent, Australia suffers from an inability to assess its strategic and long-term interests – i.e., it doesn’t know what it wants in or from Africa. This makes Australia a rather unique emerging player in Africa: while other ‘new‘ actors‘ engagement with Africa is gener | | Pindex | Book 2019 |
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