...The final case details the role of alliance construction in southern Africa’s status-building policy following the Cold War. Suddenly bereft of superpower patronage, these countries viewed NATO and Europe more broadly as the most effective strategy to foster military security and economic...

...Chapter 4 discusses the cooperation between the US and South Africa. While US efforts to “co-opt” South Africa can be traced back to late 1994, the cooperation really started only after a meeting between then vice president of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, and US vice president Al Gore in late...

... Aid Hu Jintao Jiang Zemin Kuwait Mao Zedong Oman Qatar Saudi Arabia South Africa United Arab Emirates UAE Washington DC Xi Jinping Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence Five Principles China Great Power Middle East Africa Sub-Saharan Africa Rising Power International Order Liberal...

...This chapter explores China's post–Cold War interests in the Middle East and sub-Saharan Africa: promoting its domestic economic growth through access to resources and markets, fostering support for it in the international arena, ensuring its domestic stability, advocating for developing country...

...Cooperation forums (China–Arab States Cooperation Forum- CASCF and Forum on China-Africa Cooperation-FOCAC) are China’s primary multilateral mechanisms to coordinate economic, political, and security relations with the Middle East and Africa. China's political behavior is competitive, excluding...

...China created special envoys for the Middle East, Syria, and Africa to address what it perceives as hot spots and challenges to peace and security in these regions. When it was initially established, China's special envoy for Middle East issues focused on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. In a post...

...This chapter answers the following questions: What are China's interests in the Middle East and sub-Saharan Africa? How have they changed over time? How is China cooperating or competing with the United States in these regions? How is China's behavior converging with or diverging from liberal...

... dynamic between France and the eastern portion of North Africa. An ascendant France in the Mediterranean enhanced Louis XIV's crusading credentials and intensified the symbolic insult of Barbary captivity. Meanwhile, further royal over local involvement in saving Christians from Muslim lands broadened...

... and black slavery and calls for either multi- or unilateral action against North Africa. Cannibalism Mogodor Slave traders Britain French slaves Larache Louis XV Mercedarians Pères de la Merci Morocco Ransom by family members Senegal Shipwreck victims as slaves Treaty of Paris 1763 Trinitarians...

...This chapter explores the development of policies to combat sleeping sickness in British, Belgian, and German colonies in East Africa. It argues that even though policy-making was carried out within national contexts, strategies to address this problem developed and changed over time because...

...This chapter looks more closely at sleeping sickness drug therapy research, specifically the collaborative network created by Paul Ehrlich in Africa. It focuses specifically on his relationships with researchers in London, Entebbe, Paris, and Brazzaville, and then assesses the impact...

... Iberia/Spain Pre-colonial North Africa Commerce/Economy in a certain respect, the 1792 Ottoman conquest of Oran vindicated Don Joseph Vallejo’s 1734 prediction that Oran would remain deadweight so long as Spain held it. After 1792 the Regency of Algiers invited merchants to settle in Oran...

.... Hence, “the sealed condition” arising from infibulation is evoked as a common practice, if not a rite of passage per se, by Somali women writers such as Saïda Hagi-Dirie Herzi. Infibulation is known as Sudanese circumcision in Egypt and pharaonic circumcision in other parts of Africa, particularly Sudan...

...; consent and dissent; custom and human rights. Women across Africa's “excision belt” have broken away from the male discourses of anthropology and psychoanalysis and have fled from “the cult of culture” and from religious and patriarchal surveillance. They have relocated their struggle to the West, where...

... pasha imperial admiral Kuşadası Petitioning Prizes Samos Subjecthood Venice Adriatic Sea England France Iberia Morea Naval irregulars Netherlands Ottoman navy Booty Cicero concept of the pirate as “common enemy of all” attributed to Gentili Alberico Grotius Hugo North Africa Ottoman...

...This chapter presents a case study for how South Africa used UNITA as a proxy to intervene in the tense civil war in Angola to protect itself from communist influence. Pretoria wanted to prevent the African National Congress from taking over South Africa by force and to minimize Soviet influence...

... with global interests, the heightened competition in key regions mean that gains can be made in areas that are less strategic. Unfortunately, this probably means that Africa will experience an increase in civil wars propagated and supported by third-party intervention. future of proxy war proxy war self...

... of the most important developments in the shaping of tropical medicine as a specialty was the major sleeping sickness epidemic that spread across sub-Saharan Africa at the turn of the century. The book describes how scientists and doctors collaborated across borders to control, contain, and find a treatment...

...Faith in Empire is an innovative exploration of French colonial rule in West Africa, conducted through the prism of religion and religious policy. It examines the relationships among French Catholic missionaries, colonial administrators, and Muslim, animist, and Christian Africans in colonial...