African Foreign Policies: Selecting Signifiers , Bischoff Paperback..

Name: African Foreign Policies: Selecting Signifiers , Bischoff Paperback..
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

African Foreign PoliciesSelecting Signifiers to Explain Agency\nAuthor(s): Paul-Henri Bischoff\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032400266, 978-1032400266\nSynopsis\nThis book explores, at a time when several powers have become serious players on the continent, aspects of African agency, past and present, by African writers on foreign policy, representative of geography, language and state size.\n\nIn the past, African foreign policy has largely been considered within the context of reactions to the international or global external factor. This groundbreaking book, however, looks at how foreign policy has been crafted and used in response not just to external, but also, mainly, domestic imperatives or (theoretical) signifiers. As such, it narrates individual and changing foreign policy orientations over timeand as far back as independencewith mainly African-based scholars who present their own constructs of what .