1st Edition
Regional Intervention Politics in Africa Crisis, Hegemony, and the Transformation of Subjectivity
By Stefanie Wodrig
Copyright 2017
188 Pages
by
Routledge
188 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book analyses regional interventions in African conflict spaces by engaging with political discourse theory.
Interventions are a performance of agency, but what happens if interventions are performed by forces that scholars have hardly ever considered as relevant agents in this regard? Based on a study of regional politics towards the crises in Burundi and Zimbabwe, the book analyses how... Read more
1. Introduction
2. The field of intervention: Crisis, hegemony, and subjectivity
3. Studying regional interventions
4. Regional forces in Burundi: 'We are able to act!'
5. Regional forces in Zimbabwe: 'Will we become like them?'
6. Regional interventions in Africa and beyond
Biography
Stefanie Wodrig is a research fellow at the University of Kiel, Germany, and has a PhD in Political Science.
