1st Edition

The Foreign Policies of East African States

222 Pages

by Routledge

222 Pages

by Routledge

222 Pages

by Routledge

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This book analyses the foreign policies of African countries, specifically in the region of East Africa. It reveals the regional dynamics and the way in which the international system interacts with these policies and how they are driven by domestic politics versus national visions, and vice versa. As such, it provides fine-grained and historically informed analyses of the international... Read more

Introduction

Julian Friesinger, Jude Kagoro and Klaus Schlichte

1. The Historicity of International Relations in East Africa

Jude Kagoro and Klaus Schlichte

2. The “Foreign Relations” of Uganda’s Budget

Klaus Schlichte

3. Ensuring Intra-Regional Stability to Enable External Efficiency: The EAC as a Fragile Embryonic Security Community?

Edward Silvestre Kaweesi

4. The “Impossible Mission” of the East African Community Regional Force (EACRF) to Fight the M23 Rebellion in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)

Blaise Muhire

5. Elites’ Attitudes and Perceptions in Shaping Rwanda-Uganda Relations

Moses Khisa and Gerald Bareebe

6. “Seductions” of the International? Strategic Propping of Rwanda’s Image in International Society

Matthew Sabbi

7. Tanzania: A Shift in Foreign Policy towards Israel

Leiyo Singo

8. An Examination of the Central Predicate of Uganda’s Foreign Policy in the Great Lakes Region

Solomon Muchwa Asiimwe

9. War as Foreign Policy: Waltzian Imagery and the Great Lakes Region of Africa

Edward Silvestre Kaweesi

Afterword: Foreign Policy in East Africa after the Rwanda genocide