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My main interest is in Eastern Africa with a focus on regional integration and development cooperation.
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The security situation in East Africa is double-natured, no armed conflicts are being waged in the traditional territory of EAC partner countries at present, and the region on the whole is enjoying relative stability, which, however, has been clouded since 2015 by a political crisis in Burundi (Shlenskaya in Proceedings of the Institute for African...
To outline the geographic framework of this study, it is necessary to specify what is meant by the subregion of East Africa whose integration is investigated in this monograph. Analysis of regional identity with due account of ethnic and linguistic peculiarities of respective countries helps get a deeper insight in integration processes.
The East African Community was one of the earliest integration projects in the region. In the late 1970s, when almost all African countries had become free from colonial dependence, the EAC 1.0 disintegrated. Later, from the 1970s through the 1990s, when most integration projects on the continent were emerging, East African nations found themselves...
The problem of overlapping memberships in regional economic communities (REC’S) by East African states concerns not only African countries that are members of adjoining integration groups (COMESA, SADC, etc.).
The African Peace and Security Architecture (APSA) was established in 2002 as a long-term structural response to the peace and security challenges across the continent. Unfortunately, Africa, especially the Eastern Africa region is involved in some of the world’s longest armed conflicts (DRC, Sudan / South Sudan, Somalia). The region is also occupi...
This paper examines Africa’s evolving role as a preferred destination for external migrants, specifi cally highlighting Rwanda’s emergence as a hub for resettling illegal refugees and failed asylum seekers from select Western European countries. Despite Africa’s atypical status as a migrant hotspot, there has been a rise in refugees and asylum seek...
The pandemic which is sweeping across the globe has ushered in a new epoch in Africa which makes it imperative for the African Union (AU) to revisit its strategies and agenda in relation to the protection of the people’s sovereignty, understood in the context of protecting humanity in the continent. First, African dependence on the distribution of...
This article develops a proposed unifying theoretical framework for the concept of ‘interlocalization ’ as an explanatory adjustment to the hegemonic concept of internationalism. This is a response to an exploratory study by Francis Onditi, published by the Futures, ‘Futuring an “Inclusive Knowledge Futures” Framework beyond IR Theories’, aimed at...
This article develops a proposed unifying theoretical framework for the concept of ‘_interlocalisation’_ as an explanatory adjustment to the hegemonic concept of internationalization. This is a response to an exploratory study by Francis Onditi, ‘_Futuring an ‘Inclusive Knowledge Futures’ framework beyond IR theories_’, aimed at elucidating Afrocen...
This article traces the evolution of the externalization migration management strategy within the context of migration flows and route trends in the East and Horn of Africa region. In doing so, this article sets forth several types of externalization migration management strategies used, especially by the European countries, to regulate migrant flo...
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Eastern African small island states played a role in advancing the ‘Blue Economy’ concept prior to the Rio+20 summit in 2012, when it emerged on a global stage. As their main concern they cited threats caused by climate change to marine life, on which they are highly dependent. This briefing explores the uneven development of the various na...
Women are often overlooked with regard to their political roles in advancing peace and development in society, but some African women have been at the forefront of these movements and are recognized for their roles in conceptualizing African agency in international politics. In January 2012, the African Union (AU) adopted a decision calling for the...
The analysis allowed us to identify the main features of regional integration in East Africa in the narrow sense (East Africa).
Using the results of the 2017–2018 survey of international scholars from nine countries of Sub-Saharan Africa, Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia draws preliminary conclusions about the dominant theoretical approaches in the African international studies academic community. The authors further elaborate on the prospects for conceptualizing Af...
The concept of recipient foreign aid countries that seems so deceptively simple is undergoing tremendous evolution as the international development cooperation scene is also evolving. This change is exemplified by the inclusion of some global South countries as some of the new emerging donors. As the new emerging donors abandon some of the classica...
Whenever any state’s sovereignty is threatened, its first instinct is to protect itself. In 2015, the European Union was in the spotlight, recording unprecedented numbers of migrants, and as a result, refugee camps deteriorated to deplorable conditions. Illegal migration was perceived as a security threat in Europe, and member-states were forced to...
"Recentering Africa in International Relations”
draws a reader into a new understanding of the contemporary Africa. The book is formed as a collection of essays with different research focus but one shared research question — whether Africa is included or excluded from world politics? “Does the persistent peripheralization of Africa owe to the fac...
This paper highlights the challenges that the international community faces in responding to the terrorists and the need to change tactics to respond more effectively to an increasingly nebulous enemy. Terrorism can take different forms and is perpetrated by both state and non-state actors. This research looks into the network structure of terroris...
Russia has not colonized any African country,
and its relationship with the continent is quite different as compared to other European countries like Britain or France. With the absence of language environment, there has been a need for creating new modern strategies of cooperation especially with President Putin’s government shifting from USSR co...
