Exploring Africa's Agency in International Politics

A protracted conventional knowledge within mainstream International Relations (IR) has been that African agents (states, organizations, and diplomats) are consumers of international norms and practices designed in the affluent countries of the Global North. Papers in this special issue present a challenge to this view; they discuss the active role and the influence of African actors in international politics and renew a call for the development of IR theories, concepts, and methods that reflect Global Southern and African experiences, ideas, institutions, actors and processes.In den Internationalen Beziehungen herrscht seit Langem die Auffassung vor, dass afrikanische Akteure (Staaten, Organisationen und Diplomaten) "Konsumenten" internationaler Normen und Praktiken sind, die in den wohlhabenden Ländern des Globalen Nordens entwickelt wurden. Die Artikel in diesem Special Issue stellen diese Sichtweise infrage; sie behandeln die aktive Rolle und den Einfluss afrikanischer Akteure in der internationalen Politik und erneuern die Forderung nach der Entwicklung von Theorien der Internationalen Beziehungen, von Konzepten und Methoden, die die Erfahrungen, Ideen, Institutionen, Akteure und Prozesse des Globalen Südens und Afrikas beinhalten

Governing Migration for Development from the Global Souths

The 14th thematic volume of International Development Policy provides perspectives through case studies from the global South(s) focusing on the challenges and opportunities of governing migration on multiple levels: the subnational, national, regional and international. It explores existing and new policies and frameworks in terms of their successes and best practices, and looks at them through the lens of additional challenges, such as those brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, the rise of nationalisms and an increase in xenophobia. The chapters also take the ‘5 Ps’ approach to sustainable development (people, planet, prosperity, peace and partnerships) and assess how migration policies serve sustainable development in a rapidly evolving context. Guest Editors: Dêlidji Eric Degila and Valeria Marina Valle. ‘A powerful and challenging collection that offers a depth of empirical and conceptual insight in order to demonstrate the need both to think about and understand international migration from perspectives of the ‘global south’.’ Andrew Geddes Professor of Migration Studies/Director of the Migration Policy Centre, Migration Policy Centre / Robert Schuman Centre ‘Governing Migration for Development from the Global Souths is an excellent volume that addresses and unpacks the governance-migration-sustainable development nexus in the global Souths. It maps distinct ways in which global South states are involved in and create new forms of migration governance that tend to be overlooked in analyses of multilevel governance that primarily reflect the concerns of the global North. The present volume is a must read for anyone interested in the role of the global Souths in migration governance.’ Marianne H. Marchand Research Chair in International Relations, Universidad de las Américas Puebla Cite the volume: Dêlidji Eric Degila and Valeria Marina Valle (eds.) (2022) Governing Migration for Development from the Global Souths, International Development Policy | Revue internationale de politique de développement, 14 (Geneva, Boston: Graduate Institute Publications, Brill-Nijhoff). DOI: 10.4000/poldev.4544 (paperback version: forthcoming, Autumn 2022 - https://brill.com/view/title/63268). Watch the videos of the authors explaining their chapter