1st Edition

Africa-Europe Relationships A Multistakeholder Perspective

Edited By Raffaele Marchetti Copyright 2020
200 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

200 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

200 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The relationships between Africa and Europe are of high strategic importance. This volume studies the ongoing dynamics between the two continents by adopting a pluralist understanding of international relations which encompasses non-state actors as well as states. Going beyond pure intergovernmentalism, this focus of this book is on activists, business people, religious believers, local... Read more

Introduction
1. A more encompassing understanding of the Africa-European relationship
Raffaele Marchetti

Civil society organizations
2. European-South African elite collaboration, balanced by civil society solidarity
Patrick Bond
3. Mission, Development and ‘Reverse Mission’ in Europe-Africa Religious Relations
Dena Freeman
4. The Role of Think Tanks between Africa and the EU
Silvia Menegazzi
5. The Exacerbation of Community Confinement: Involved Social Forces and Effects on the Euro-African State Relationship
Belkacem Iratni 

Business organizations
6. Bi-continental Encounters for Fairer ACP-EU trade? Assessing Multi-Stakeholder Initiatives
Mark Langan
7. Sleeping Beauty Awakens. Africa rise and the new deal with international energy stakeholders
Lapo Pistelli
8. The evolution (2000-2017) and proposed future scenarios of EU Africa Relations in Technological innovation: A multi-stakeholder perspective
Robert Mudida 

Institutions
9. Eurafrica reconsidered: Europe and African leaders in historical perspectives
Véronique Dimier and Giuliana Gliottone
10. Integration Dynamics between the African Union (AU) and the Regional Economic Communities (RECs) in light of a newly oriented Euro-African Geopolitics
Marco Massoni
11. Entangled regions: how multiple interregionalisms reshape Central Africa
Frank Mattheis
12. Cities in the Africa-Europe Interaction
Elena De Nictolis

Biography

Raffaele Marchetti is Deputy Rector for Internationalization and Associate Professor in International Relations at the Department of Political Science and the School of Government of LUISS, Italy. His research interest concerns global politics and governance, hybrid and city diplomacy, transnational civil society, (cyber-)security and political risk, and democracy. His most recent publications include Government–NGO Relationships in Africa, Asia, Europe and MENA (Routledge, 2018) and Debating Migration to Europe: Welfare vs Identity (Routledge, 2017).