African Foreign Policies

Paul-Henri Bischoff is Professor of International Relations and erstwhile longstanding Head of Department of Political and International Studies at Rhodes University, Grahamstown-Makhanda, South Africa.

1. Introduction 2. What Next? Past and present African foreign policy concepts and practices 3. The African Union as a Foreign Policy Player: African Agency in International Cooperation 4. Unprincipled Pragmatism and Anti-Imperialist Impulses in an Interconnected World: The Zuma Presidency, 2009-2017 5. Towards A Strategic Culture Approach to Understanding and Conceptualising Ethiopia’s Foreign Policy Towards Israel and the Middle Eastern Arab Countries 6. Nigeria’s Foreign Policy and Intervention Behaviour in Africa: What Role for Agency? 7. Zimbabwe and New Signifiers: Towards a cultural political economy of Foreign Policy Making 8. Realist Conceptions of Kenya’s Foreign Policy and Foreign Policy Behaviour: A Theoretical and Contextual Disposition 9. Addressing the Conceptual Void of African Small State Foreign Policy in Orthodox Theory: A Case Study of Botswana's Principled Pragmatism 10. Tunisia’s Foreign Policy Towards France Before and After an Undemanding ‘Revolution’: A Theoretical Explanation of the An-Nahdha-led Interim Governments’ Soft Policy 11. Straddling Between Convergence and Divergence: A Constructivist’s View of Malawi’s Foreign Policy in Post-independence Africa 12. Strategies of a Small State Between Realism and Liberalism: Sixty Years of Guinea’s Diplomacy and Foreign Policy (1958-2018) 13. Rethinking SADC’s Collective Policymaking Processes on External Relations and Non-state Participation for Region-building 14. Towards an Understanding of the Interplay Between Ghana’s Foreign and Defence Policies 15. Conclusion