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Australia and Africa = A New Friend from the South? /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Australia and Africa/ by Nikola Pijović.
Reminder of title:	A New Friend from the South? /
Author:	Pijović, Nikola.
Description:	XIX, 187 p. 8 illus.online resource. :
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Africa—Politics and government. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-3423-8
ISBN:	9789811334238

Australia and Africa = A New Friend from the South? /
Pijović, Nikola.

Australia and AfricaA New Friend from the South? /[electronic resource] :by Nikola Pijović. - 1st ed. 2019. - XIX, 187 p. 8 illus.online resource. - Africa's Global Engagement: Perspectives from Emerging Countries,2662-7825. - Africa's Global Engagement: Perspectives from Emerging Countries,.

Introduction -- Section 1 Australia’s historical engagement with Africa -- Chapter 1 Colonials or Liberators? Early Australians in Africa -- Chapter 2 White Australia meets a decolonizing Africa -- Chapter 3 A new approach? -- Chapter 4 Brokering independence for Zimbabwe -- Chapter 5 The end of an Era -- Section 2 Australia’s contemporary engagement with Africa -- Chapter 6 The post-Cold War ‘Decline of Africa’ -- Chapter 7 John Howard’s African paradox: It’s all about the Commonwealth -- Chapter 8 The millennial ‘Rise of Africa’ -- Chapter 9 ‘New Engagement’ with Africa -- Chapter 10 Retreat from Africa? -- Chapter 11 Conclusion: The future of Australia and Africa.

This book offers analysis of Australia’s engagement with Africa, as well as the country’s rather unique status as a ‘new’ actor and emerging country in Africa. With its empirical originality and comparative contribution, the book fills a gap in both the study of Africa’s global engagement with emerging countries, and in connection with Australia’s largely unknown engagement with African states. Australia has presented itself as Africa’s ‘friend from the south,’ without any colonial baggage, and is interested in a long-term partnership for trade and development. In this context, Australia is only one of many ‘new’ players seeking more intensive engagement with Africa since the end of the Cold War. At its core, the book argues that because of its largely unacknowledged ‘flawed’ historical engagement with Africa, as well as the political partisanship driving its fickle and volatile contemporary engagement with the continent, Australia suffers from an inability to assess its strategic and long-term interests – i.e., it doesn’t know what it wants in or from Africa. This makes Australia a rather unique emerging player in Africa: while other 'new' actors' engagement with Africa is generally strategic, and driven to a large extent by a desire to secure resources and counter the influence of geopolitical rivals, Australia’s efforts with regard to Africa are more episodic and not about acquiring resources or countering its rivals. Hence, while immigration, globalization, trade, terrorism, and climate change continue to bring Africa and Australia closer together, Australia’s failure to understand its own interests continues to hamper its engagement with Africa.

ISBN: 9789811334238

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-981-13-3423-8doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

1253951
Africa—Politics and government.

LC Class. No.: JQ1870-3981

Dewey Class. No.: 320.96

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