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Course Syllabus
Dr. R. Kiki Edozie
Assistant Professor
Global South Studies/African Affairs
Department of Political Science and IR
459 Smith Hall
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302-831-1939
POSC439/639
PROBLEMS IN AFRICAN POLITICS:
Contemporary Issues in African Affairs
The Liberian Civil War
The state of Post-Cold War & Post- 9/11 world politics is having important implications for the African continent which is seen to be going through both modernization and post-modernization simultaneously. By way of introducing the most recent trends in international African affairs, this course provides its participants with the major themes and polemics that are central to Africa in world politics. Main topics include the African Crisis, (including the health crisis and AIDs), the new AU/Nepad, Peace and Conflict in the Great Lakes, Liberia & Sierra Leone, and the Horn (including the Sudan Peace Process), Post-Apartheid South and Southern Africa (including Zimbabwe), Wither the Nigerian Giant? Francophone Africa (including Cote D’Ivoire), and New and Old Gulf Oil.
Required Texts and Instructional Resources:
- Akinrrinade, Sola & Amadu Sesay (1998) Africa in the Post Cold War International System. Pinter. London
- Khadiagala, Gilbert and Terence Lyons (2001) African Foreign Policies: power and process. Lynne Rienner. Boulder, London
- Edozie, R.Kiki Electronic Resources. Problems in African Politics: Contemporary Issues in African Affairs (40 articles on library reserve).
Suggested Online Resources
Grading Requirements:
- Participation in Four Seminar Panels (submit one page per seminar presentation)(1page){20%}
- Four One Page Policy Response Papers for Public Affairs Roundtable (1 page){10%}
- Class attendance and participation {10%}
- Midterm (Select a Topic from International Policy Issues List[1]; and Write a 5 page Research Paper on the Topic)(5pages) {20%}
- Final Short Research Paper (Select a Topic from Public and Political Affairs Country Case List[2]; and Write a 8 page Research Paper on the Topic) (8 pages) {40%}[3]
Calendar of Events:
2/10
Intro to Course
PART ONE:
INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC POLICY AND AFRICAN AFFAIRS
POST COLD WAR/POST APARTHEID NEW INTERNATIONAL REGIMES IN AFRICA
2/12
Akinrinade and Sesay, Africa in the Post Cold War International System, ‘Africa and the End of the Cold War’ by Scott Thomas
Khadiagala and Lyons, African Foreign Policies: Power and Process, ‘ Foreign Policy Making in Africa: An Introduction’by Khadiagala and Lyons.
2/17
Panel Discussion Library Electronic Resources
Werbner and Terence Ranger, Postcolonial Identities in Africa, ‘The African Crisis: context and interpretation’ by Patrick Chabal
Ali Mazrui, Africa’s International Relations, ‘Toward the Year 2000’
Sign-up Volunteers:
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2/19
Akinrinade and Sesay, Africa in the Post Cold War International System ‘Old Concepts and New Challenges in the post-Cold War Era’ by Karin von Hippel
Khadiagala and Lyons, African Foreign Policies: Power and Process ‘External Relations of WeakStates and Stateless Regions in Africa’ by William Reno
ECONOMIC GLOBALIZATION AND AFRICA
2/24
Panel Discussion Library Electronic Resources
Darryl Thomas, ‘Between Globalization and Global Apartheid: African Development in the New Millennium’ in The International Journal of African Studies, Fall 2001
Tandika Mkandawire and Charels Soludo, ‘The African Crisis’in Our Continent, Our Future, 1998
Guy Martin, ‘The Continued Relevance of Pan-Africanism in the Twenty First Century’ in Africa in World Politics, 2003
Sign-up Volunteers:
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2/26
Akinrinade and Sesay, Africa in the Post Cold War International System ‘Africa and global society: marginality, conditionality and conjuncture’by Stephen Wright
Akinrinade and Sesay, Africa in the Post Cold War International System ‘Regional and Sub-Regional Conflict Management Efforts’ by Amadu Sesay
AFRICA AND THE THIRD WAVE OF DEMOCRACY
3/2
Akinrinade and Sesay, Africa in the Post Cold War International System ‘The Re-Democratization Process in Africa: plus ca change, plus c’est la meme chose’by Sola Akinrinade
Stephen Ndegwa, ‘Kenya: Third Time Luck?’ Journal of Democracy 2003
AFRICA AND GLOBAL GOVERNANCE
3/4
Akinrinade and Sesay, Africa in the Post Cold War International System ‘Africa and the United Nations’ by Sola Akinrinade
Panel Discussion Library Electronic Resources
Claude Ake, ‘A Confusion of Agendas’ in Democracy and Development in Africa. Brookings Institute.
Joseph Stiglitz, ‘Broken Promises’ in Globalization and its Discontents Norten and Company. 2000
Sign-up Volunteers:
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NEW DIRECTIONS IN IPE: NEW OIL AND AFRICAN RESOURCE MOBILIZATION
3/9
Panel Discussion Library Electronic Resources
Neil Ford, ‘Oil Puts Africa on the Map’in New African, 2003
Richard Knight ‘Expanding Petroleum Production in Africa’ in Review of African Political Economy, 2003
Catholic Relief Services Report, ‘Oil Boom: Peril or Opportunity: Africa?’ Org
Sign-up Volunteers:
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GLOBAL PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS
3/11
Panel Discussion Library Electronic Resources
Stephen Morrison, ‘The African Pandemic Hits Washington’ in The Washington Quarterly. 2000
Marcella David,‘Rubber Helmets: The Certain Pitfalls of Marshalling Security Council Resources to Combat AIDS in Africa’ in Human Rights Quarterly 23.3 (2001)
David Barnard ‘In the High Court of South Africa, Case No 4138/98: the global politics of access to low-cost AIDS drugs in poor countries’ in Kennedy Institute of Ethic Journal. 2002
Sign-up Volunteers:
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US FOREIGN POLICY, THE BUSH DOCTRINE AND ISLAMIZATION IN AFRICA
3/16
Panel Discussion Library Electronic Resources
Donald Rothchild, ‘The U.S Foreign Policy Trajectory on Africa’ SAIS Review 21.1(2001) Project Muse Journal of Democracy Article
Gilbert Khadiagala, ‘The United States and Africa: Beyond the Clinton Administration’ SAIS Review 21.1 2001 Project Muse Journal of Democracy Article
Sign-up Volunteers:
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3/18
Akinrinade and Sesay, Africa in the Post Cold War International System, ‘The Triumph of Realism: Africa and the Middle East’ by Olusola Ojo
Panel Discussion Library Electronic Resources
Jean de la Gueriviere and Aacene Belmessous ‘The Different Faces of Black Islam’ and ‘The Progress of Islam in Africa’ African Geopolitics. Winter 2001/2002
Rene Lemarchand, ‘Beyond the Mad Dog Syndrome’ in The Green and the Black:Qadhafi’s Polices in Africa. 1988
Sign-up Volunteers:
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Midterm Due
SPRING RECESS
3/19-3/29
PART TWO:
PUBLIC AFFAIRS AND COUNTRY CASE INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC POLICY ISSUES
FRANCOPHONE AFRICA AND COTE’ D’IVOIRE
3/30
Khadiagala and Lyons, African Foreign Policies: Power and Process, ‘New Directions in Francophone West African Foreign Policies’ by Peter J. Schraeder
Panel Discussion Library Electronic Resources
Guy Martin, ‘France’s African Policy in Transition: Disengagement and Redeployment’ in Africa in World Politics, 2002
Cyril Daddieh, ‘Elections and Ethnic Violence in Cote D’Ivoire: the Unfinished Business of Succession and Democratic Transition’
CONFLICT AND REGIONAL WEST AFRICA
4/1
Khadiagala and Lyons, African Foreign Policies: Power and Process, ‘Foreign Policy Decision-making in Anglophone West Africa’
Panel Discussion Library Electronic Resources
Yekutiel Gershoni ‘War Without End and An End to A War: the prolonged wars in Liberia and Sierra Leone’ in African Studies Review, 1997
Quentin Outram, ‘It’s Terminal Either Way: an analysis of armed conflict in Liberia, 1989-1996’Review of African Political Economy. 1997
Sign-up Volunteers:
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NIGERIA: Wither Giant of Africa
4/6
Panel Discussion Library Electronic Resources
Ukoha Ukiwo ‘Politics, Ethno-Religious conflicts and Democratic Consolidation in Nigeria’ in Journal of Modern African Studies. 2003
John Ejobowah, ‘Who Owns the Oil? The Politics of Ethnicity in the Niger Delta of Nigeria’ Africa Today 47 (2000)
Sign-up Volunteers:
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SOUTH AFRICA AND THE AFRICAN RENAISSANCE
4/8
Khadiagala and Lyons, African Foreign Policies: Power and Process ‘Foreign Policy Decision-making in Southern Africa’s Fading Frontline’ by Gilbert Khadaiagala
Akinrinade and Sesay, Africa in the Post Cold War International System, ‘Southern Africa and the End of Apartheid: opportunities and challenges’by Abiodun Alao
Edozie, R. Kiki ‘Promoting African Owned and Operated Development: the New African Partnership for African Development (NEPAD) unpublished conference paper. 2003
THE NEW SOUTH AFRICA
4/13
Panel Discussion Library Electronic Resources
Michael Neocosmos, ‘Democracy, Rights Discourse, National Healing and State Formation: Theoretical Reflections on the Liberation Transition in Southern Africa’ Ashgate Policy Paper Series. 2000
Krista Johnson, ‘Liberal or Liberation Framework? The Contradictions of ANC rule in South Africa’ Journal of Contemporary African Studies. May 2003
Sign-up Volunteers:
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ZIMBABWE IN CRISIS
4/15
Panel Discussion Library Electronic Resources
Suzanne Danserau ‘Liberation and Opposition in Zimbabwe’ in Journal of Contemporary African Studies. May 2003
Sam Moyo, ‘The Political-Eocnomy of Land Acquisition and Redistribution in Zimbabwe. 1990-1999’ in Journal of Southern African Studies. March 2000
Sign-up Volunteers:
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RETREATING COLD WARS: RECONSTRUCTION IN ANGOLA AND MOZAMBIQUE
4/20
Panel Discussion Library Electronic Resources
Patrick Chabal, ‘Angola and Mozambique: the weight of history’ 1998 Working Papers On Line <
Thomas Turner, ‘Angola’ in Foreign Policy in Focus
Sign-up Volunteers:
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CONFLICT AND RECONSTRUCTION IN THE GREAT LAKES REGION
4/22
Khadiagala and Lyons, African Foreign Policies: Power and Process ‘Foreign Policy Making in the Great Lakes Region’ by Rene Lemarchand
Panel Discussion Library Electronic Resources
Paul Orogun. ‘Government, Ethnic Schisms, Civil War and Regional Destabilization of the DRC’ in World Affairs 2002
Ngolet, Francois ‘African and American Connivance in Congo-Zaire’ Africa Today. 2000
Sign-up Volunteers:
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10 YEARS REMEMBERING GENOCIDE: RWANDA
4/27
Panel Discussion Library Electronic Resources
Joel Settenheim, ‘The Arusha Accords and the Failure of International Intervention in Rwanda’
Stef Vandeginste, ‘Justice, Reconciliation and Reparation After Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity: the proposed establishment of popular ‘gacaca’ tribunals in Rwanda’
Sign-up Volunteers:
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THE HORN OF AFRICA and the Sudan Peace Process
4/29
Khadiagala and Lyons, African Foreign Policies: Power and Process, ‘The Foreign Policies of the Horn: The Clash Between Old and New’
Panel Discussion Library Electronic Resources
Eric Greaves, ‘Peace or War? The Moment of Truth for Sudan’
Africans, Arabs, and Islamists: From the Conference Tables to the Battlefields in the Sudan’ in African Studies Review. 1999
Sign-up Volunteers:
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Ethiopia and Eritrea
5/4
Panel Discussion Library Electronic Resources
Kidane Mengisteab ‘Ethiopia’s Ethnic-Based Federalism: 10 Years After’ in African Issues 2001
Leenco Lata, ‘The Ethiopia-Eritrea War’ in Review of African Political Economy 2003
Sign-up Volunteers:
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PART THREE:
AFRICAN PUBLIC AFFAIRS MAGAZINE ROUNDTABLE
Suggested Online Resources
One page typed response required from every student
5/6
Charles Taylor and the UN War Tribunal: Should Charles Taylor be repatriated from his exile in Nigeria to face the UN ICT for alleged crimes in Sierra Leone?
5/11
Was Zimbabwe treated unfairly by the Commonwealth? Does Robert Mugabe deserve to suffer the fate of Saddam Hussein?
5/13
Does Africa deserve a permanent seat on the UN Security Council? Which African country is best suited to attain such a role? Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania or Botswana?
5/18
The Democratic Republic of the Congo has some of the world’s most lucrative mineral resources. Will a post conflict, independent DRC share its resource and land abundance with neighboring Rwanda, Uganda?
5/25
FINAL DUE
ENDNOTES
[1] International Policy Issues
- Global Apartheid and the contemporary African political economy
- Political Marginalization and Africa in the Post Cold War Global Arena
- The African Crisis in the Context of African Development
- New International Regimes and Reconstruction: Pan-Africanism, the African Union and Nepad
- Economic and Political Reform: The Age of Sustainable Development in Africa
- Post-9/11 Security, Political Islam and the Bush Doctrine in Africa
[2] Public and Political Affairs: Case Studies
- Cote D’Ivoire and Conflict
- The Sudan and Peace
- The Democratic Republic of the Congo and Peace
- Crisis in Zimbabwe
- Liberia, Conflict and International Intervention
- Transitioning in Sierra Leone
- Transitioning in Rwanda
- Nigeria: wither African Giant?
- South Africa: new African Hegemon?
- Libya and Africa
[3] Suggested Essay Format:
- Select and Research Topic (use course sources)
- Theorize about Topic and Attempt a Thesis Statement or Theme
- Using external resources (at least one or two books) to Support your Thesis analytically and critically
- State Thesis upfront in an intro paragraph page, divide essay into at least three subsections, include a conclusion