African Union's Africa

Rita Kiki Edozie is Professor of International Relations and African Affairs at Michigan State University’s James Madison College and Director of African American and African Studies at MSU. Keith Gottschalk was a Fulbright fellow at Oakland University and is the former head of the Department of Political Studies at the University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa.

• Contents Foreword, Gerald C. Horne Preface Abbreviations Introduction: The African Union as Pan-African Method as New Study of International Relations Part 1: The African Union in Theories, Methods, and Institutional Design Chapter 1: Africa's African Union: Globalization and Global Governance Chapter 2: The Evolving "African" Suprastate: Histories, Anatomies, and Comparisons Part 2: African Issues and Contexts: Culture, Democracy, Security, and Development Chapter 3: Pan-Africanist Globalization and Cultural Politics: Promoting the African World View Chapter 4: The African Union Democracy: Navigating Indigenous Rights and Inclusions in Neoliberal Contexts Chapter 5: Pax Africana versus International Security: New Routes to Conflict Resolution Chapter 6: Driving the Pan-African Economic Agenda: Ideology and Institutionalism Part 3: The Prospective and the Prescriptive Chapter 7: The African Union's Africa: Its Prospects and its Challenges Conclusion: The (Pan) African Union Phenomenon: Mali as Exemplar Appendix: African Union: Provenance and Derivation of Organs and Institutions in Comparative Context Notes Bibliography Index

This is a dream book for the ardent Pan-Africanist who is yearning for a theoretically informed exploration of the African Union and a must-read for scholars and students looking for an interdisciplinary study of the premier and certainly themost important international organization in Africa in the first decade of the twenty-first century.—Thomas Kwasi Tieku, Department of Political Science, King’s University College at Western University, Ontario