Abigail Kabandula
Biographic Data
| ID | 3087258 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Abigail Kabandula |
| GIVEN NAMES | Abigail |
| FAMILY NAME | Kabandula |
| SIGNATURE | KABANDULA A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Dalhousie University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8037-0276 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 210 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 365 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 209 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Subsidiarity in global security governance: Lessons from the African Union
This article examines the practice of subsidiarity in contemporary global security governance, using Somalia as a case study. It analyses the African Union’s intervention through its Mission in Somalia (AMISOM), in partnership with the United Nations and a range of state and non-state actors. While subsidiarity seeks to enhance legitimacy by empowering regional organisations to lead responses to regional crises, the Somali case demonstrates how i…
Incremental change or transformation? Changes in US foreign policy towards Africa since 2001
Drivers of influence of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates in East Africa: Evidence from Sudan
Recent studies show that political and security competition between states in the Middle East vis-à-vis the Horn of Africa has intensified since the Arab Spring. This competition has exacerbated instability in fragile states such as Sudan. However, there is limited research on the influence of the Gulf States in Sudan. Using the neoclassical realist agent-structure framework, data from the Formal Bilateral Influence Capacity (FBIC) index and inte…
Africa and the Formation of the New System of International Relations—Vol. II: Beyond Summit Diplomacy: Cooperation with Africa in the Post-pandemic World
Special Issue on “Covid-19, Peace and Security in Africa: Challenges and Opportunities”
Covid-19 and human development/security: What futures for social sciences/policy
COVID-19 and human development/security: what futures for social sciences/policy?." The Round Table, 110(1), pp. 179–180 Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author
Rethinking “new regionalisms” out of Africa 2020
This article suggests that the quarter of the world’s states that are African can yet contribute to new “developmental” regionalisms in theory and practice, as the North enters a period of ambivalence about, if not retreat from, positive global engagement. This article builds on the pioneering analysis of Björn Hettne with Inotai on new regionalism and the related contributions out of contemporary “development” studies by Jan Nederveen Pieterse o…
Canada’s Covid-19 response: Navigating national and global solidarity
Canada’s Covid-19 response: navigating national and global solidarity." The Round Table, 109(3), pp. 326–327
State of Crisis: International Constraints, Contradictions, and Capitalisms?
This chapter identifies some of the salient features of both the crisis and the response to it by situating them within the global political economy, with its many constraints and occasional opportunities. The experience of depression and drought has undermined the widespread postcolonial tendency toward state capitalism; nascent forces favoring degrees of "liberalization" have been reinforced, partially because of International Monetary Fund and…
The Empire’s New Clothes: The Myth of the Commonwealth - A Third Review
"The Empire’s New Clothes: The Myth of the Commonwealth - A Third Review." The Round Table, 107(3), pp. 385–386
Rising powers and the horn of Africa: Conflicting regionalisms
Rising powers are evolving centres for varieties of conflict as well as development. With a focus on the complexities of the Horn of Africa, we juxtapose Jan Nederveen Pieterse1 on what is rising – States? Inter-regionalisms? Diasporas? Economies? Companies? New technologies? – with the late Jim Hentz2 on non-traditional security (NTS) challenges on the continent. NTS factors include fragile states/ungoverned spaces, migrations and viruses, which…
Is the G20, Like the G7, an Endangered Species
The G20 will meet for its thirteenth summit at the end of 2018. This article contextualises the G20 within a changing global political economy and examines challenges and changes: the rise of China, non-state and trans-state actors, new regionalisms, environmental and climate change, new technologies and transnational crime. The G20 has limited room for manoeuvre, but informed and challenged by and about these trends, it may yet find a way forwar…
Africa in 21st century US and EU agendas: A comparative analysis
The burgeoning attention to African International Relations (IR) can be seen as a part of the overdue interest in global IR, while also serving to balance IR's current obsession with Asia and especially with east Asia. Within this trend, Lola Raich's monograph takes a novel approach, as it does not focus on, for example, African agency in sustainable development or on South–South cooperation. Rather, it discusses northern policies on African secu…
From Millennium Development Goals to Sustainable Development Goals: Rethinking African Development
African futures: Essays on crisis, emergence, and possibility
There are many ‘Africas’, not just ‘developmental’ versus ‘fragile’ or ‘hopeful’ rather than ‘hopeless’, but also the Africa of ‘development economics’ as opposed to that of ‘anthropology’. These two contrasting edited volumes suggest that the ‘Africa rising’ narrative can be considered in terms of theory as well as policy, particularly when it comes to its contribution towards a more ‘global International Relations’ (IR). Akbar Noman and Joseph …
Africa in global International Relations: Emerging approaches to theory and practice. Edited by Paul-Henri Bischoff, Kwesi Aning and Amitav Acharya: Minding the gap: African conflict management in a t…
Journal Article Africa in global International Relations: emerging approaches to theory and practice. Edited by Paul-Henri Bischoff, Kwesi Aning and Amitav Acharya: Minding the gap: African conflict management in a time of change. Edited by Pamela Aall and Chester A. Crocker Get access Africa in global International Relations: emerging approaches to theory and practice. Edited by Bischoff Paul-Henri, Aning Kwesi and Acharya Amitav. Abingdon: Rout…
The Commonwealth of Nations and the EU after the ‘Global’ Crisis: Rethinking Post-2015 ‘Global’ Development
The continuing ‘global’ crisis has accelerated divergences between regions, especially between the ‘rising’ global South, the European Union (EU) of the PIIGS (Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece and Spain) and Cyprus, which belongs to both the Commonwealth and the EU. This article studies the emerging ‘vertical’ divergences between the EU and the global South, especially around the so-called Economic Partnership Agreements, and the parallel ‘horizo…
Africa: Why economists get it wrong. By Morten Jerven: Africa's new oil: power, pipelines and future fortunes. By Celeste Hicks: South Sudan: a slow liberation. By Edward Thomas
Zed Books deserves our appreciation for continuing to publish timely and original titles on Africa, remarkably in initial paperback editions: who else would print over 300 pages on South Sudan? This contribution is especially welcome as the continent anticipates a post-2015 world, which may be post-commodity boom and is increasingly post-hegemonic. Africa may no longer be hopeless, but not all Africans are hopeful, as indicated by the risks some …
Energy and CSR in Trinidad and Tobago in the Second Decade of the Twenty-first Century
Studies in the Economic History of Southern Africa: South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland
African agency? Africa, South Africa and the BRICS
Are you willing to be made nothing? Is Commonwealth reform possible
A new round of Commonwealth reform proposals commenced at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting of 2009. An ensuing report, titled A Commonwealth of the people: time for urgent reform, contained a long list of proposals that eventually resulted in 2013 in the adoption of the Commonwealth Charter. Many classic international organizations are in need of reform, but this is, of course, challenging. This new Commonwealth reform process will no…
Same Bed, Different Dreams” and “Riding Tiger” Dilemmas: China’s Rise and International Relations/Political Economy
State of Human Rights in Nigeria: Cencod 2012 Annual Report
Sylvester Odion Akhaine and Bonaventure Uche Chizea (Eds) Lagos, Centre for Constitutionalism and Demilitarisation (CENCOD) for MacArthur Foundation, 2011, pp. xv + 405, ISBN 978355977X (paperback)
Development in the Commonwealth Caribbeans after a half-century of independence: Insights From Transnational and Regional Perspectives
After 50 years of formal independence in the anglophone Caribbean, this article suggests gains for both analysis and policy may be made by something of a paradigm shift towards a focus on transnational and regional relations. This is especially so for the myriad small, particularly island, states which have always been relatively 'open' especially as contemporary governance demands proliferate as indicated in the first section below. And it holds…
Who Leads Matters: The Effects of Powerful Individuals
The rise of China and India in Africa: Challenges, opportunities and critical interventions
In recent years, China and India have become the most important economic partners of Africa and their footprints are growing by leaps and bounds, transforming Africa's international relations in a dramatic way. Although the overall impact of China and India's engagement in Africa has been positive in the short-term, partly as a result of higher returns from commodity exports fuelled by excessive demands from both countries, little research exists…
The Comparative Study of Foreign Policy: A Survey of Scientific Findings
African agency? Africa, South Africa and the BRICS
Emerging Powers and Africa: Implications for/from Global Governance
This article examines the increasing engagement between the ‘emerging powers’ and African countries, and the implications for international governance. The global power dynamic is undergoing a cumulative reordering process, where countries including China, India, Brazil and Russia are occupying increasingly prominent roles in the international system. In their approach to Africa, the ‘BRIC’ countries have employed a mix of soft power, public dipl…
Global and/or regional development at the start of the 21st century? China, India and (South) Africa
Projected economic growth for China and India presents considerable opportunities and dilemmas for the African region, especially for human development, rights and security around its own growth centre, South Africa. This article juxtaposes a set of overlapping perspectives—emerging economies versus nics, fragile versus developmental states, new regionalisms, resource conflicts and new South – South relations—to analyse the present and prospectiv…
The political economy of new regionalisms
(1999). The political economy of new regionalisms. Third World Quarterly: Vol. 20, No. 5, pp. 897-910
Reformism and Revisionism in Africa’s Political Economy in the 1990s: The Dialectics of Adjustment
This timely text reevaluates the contemporary political economy of Africa in the light of continuing economic and ecological crises, changing perceptions and prescriptions, and transformations in glob
Beyond post‐conflict peacebuilding: What links to sustainable development and human security
The proliferation of peacekeeping and coalition operations in Africa over the last five to ten years poses profound challenges for analysis and praxis, explanation and prescription. This article is premised on the assumption that at least some of the causes of the social conflicts ‐ that have led to the growing demand for diverse elements in the peacekeeping nexus ‐ lie in the character and consequences of structural adjustment programmes. The se…
New Regionalisms in Africa in the New Millennium: Comparative Perspectives on Renaissance, Realisms and/or Regressions
Eec‐acp Interactions and Images as Redefinitions of Eurafrica: Exemplary, Exclusive and/or Exploitative
Reformism, Revisionism, and Redicalism in African Political Economy During the 1990s
African states and studies are in a profound period of revisionism as the 'lost decade' of the 1980s yields to the 'adjustment reforms' of the 1990s. The relative optimism and expansion of the initial years of independence have long since been superseded by pessimism and contraction as successive energy, drought, debt, and devaluation shocks have resulted in impoverishment and inequalities. The former has affected 'vulnerable groups' in particula…
Beyond Neo-Colonialism: Varieties of Corporatism in Africa
Although the essential character of Africa's dependence on the world system changes very slowly, if at all, particular aspects of it are always in flux. For whilst dependence continues to generate underdevelopment, some growth has occurred in several countries at particular periods with important implications for certain classes. The incorporation of the continent into the world system is an ongoing process that reflects shifts in (i) the nature …
Rising powers and the horn of Africa: Conflicting regionalisms
Rising powers are evolving centres for varieties of conflict as well as development. With a focus on the complexities of the Horn of Africa, we juxtapose Jan Nederveen Pieterse1 on what is rising – States? Inter-regionalisms? Diasporas? Economies? Companies? New technologies? – with the late Jim Hentz2 on non-traditional security (NTS) challenges on the continent. NTS factors include fragile states/ungoverned spaces, migrations and viruses, which…
The Foreign Policy System of Zambia
The study of foreign policy is under-developed” (Brecher, 1972: 1). This observation is particularly accurate for Africa, where analysis has concentrated on the role of presidents and on the ideology of states in the international system. As a small contribution toward the development of foreign policy analysis in Africa, this article focuses on the variety of actors in the foreign policy system of Zambia. It is an attempt to present an exhaustiv…
The Commonwealth(s) and Global Governance
Commonwealth as an inter-governmental organization has not been studied with any reference to the growing literature on multilateralism. (1) Commonwealth is a unique grouping, embracing developed, developing and least developed countries across all regions of the globe, and including many of the world's smallest countries. It is a valuable forum for addressing issues such as tax, competition, money laundering, and corruption, as well as broader p…
Globalization, Anti-Globalization and the Commonwealth(s)
The Commonwealth nexus offers insights into contemporary 'governance'--continuous relations between state and non-state actors (notably civil societies and private companies)--global and otherwise, even if most students of international organization have yet to so appreciate. But relations between inter- and non-state Commonwealths are not as creative as they might be and both the United Nations and World Bank now offer lessons to them. Yet the C…
Africa's Challenge to International Relations Theory
The Organization of African Unity after Thirty Years
The South in the ‘New World (Dis)Order’: Towards a political economy of Third World foreign policy in the 1990s
(1994). The South in the ‘New World (Dis)Order’: Towards a political economy of Third World foreign policy in the 1990s. Third World Quarterly: Vol. 15, The South in the new World (Dis)Order, pp. 17-30
South Africa: The corporatist/regionalist conjuncture
(1994). South Africa: The corporatist/regionalist conjuncture. Third World Quarterly: Vol. 15, No. 2, pp. 243-255
Satisfying Africa's Food Needs: Food Production and Commercialization in African Agriculture
Economic Crisis in Africa: African Perspectives on Development Problems and Potentials
Ethnicity as the Resilient Paradigm for Africa: From the 1960s to the 1980s
Foreign Policy, Political Economy and the Future: Reflections on Africa in the World System
Journal Article FOREIGN POLICY, POLITICAL ECONOMY AND THE FUTURE: REFLECTIONS ON AFRICA IN THE WORLD SYSTEM Get access TIMOTHY M. SHAW TIMOTHY M. SHAW Dr Shaw is the editor of several books on African international relations and is presently Visiting Senior Lecturer in the Department of International Relations at the University of Ife, Nigeria, and Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia. Fo…
The United Nations in International Politics and Multinational cooperation: Economic, social and scientific development
Journal Article The United Nations in International Politics and Multinational cooperation: economic, social and scientific development Get access The United Nations in International Politics. Ed. by Leon GordenkerPrinceton, N.J.: Princeton University Press; London: Oxford University Press. 1971. 241 pp. Index. £3.60.Multinational cooperation: economic, social and scientific development. Ed. by Robert S. Jordan.New York, London, Toronto: Oxford U…
African Liberation Movements: Contemporary Struggles Against White Minority Rule
Journal Article African Liberation Movements: contemporary struggles against white minority rule Get access African Liberation Movements: contemporary struggles against white minority rule, by Richard Gibson. OUP/IRR, xiii+350pp. Bibliography, index, map, tables. £3·50. TIMOTHY M. SHAW TIMOTHY M. SHAW Dalhousie University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 71, Issue 285, October 1972, …
Politics in South Africa
Social Science and Democratic Theory
The Analysis of International Politics: Essays in Honor of Harold and Margaret Sprout
Guerrilla Struggle in Africa: An Analysis and Preview
Explaining Senegalese Foreign Policy
Africa Contemporary Record: Annual Survey and Documents, Volume 4, 1971-1972
Southern Africa in Perspective: Essays in Regional Politics
Dominance and Diversity: The International Hierarchy. Steven L. Spiegel Partnership or Confrontation? Poor Lands and Rich. Paul Alpert
International Relations and World Images: A Study of Norwegian Foreign Policy Elites
Southern Africa: Co-operation and Conflict in an International Sub-System
Most attempts to explain the slowness and perversity of change in Southern Africa are deficient because not enough attention is paid to regional interactions. This review suggests that it is time to correct the over-concentration on the national or global relations of this international sub-system by the adoption of an intermediate level of analysis. We cannot understand the coexistence of confrontation and co-operation in Southern Africa without…
South African Imperialism in Southern Africa
Technical Assistance Administration in East Africa
Livres/Books
Comparing Foreign Policies: Theories, Findings and Methods
The Comparative Study of Foreign Policy: A Survey of Scientific Findings
Discontinuities and Inequalities in African International Politics
Regional Co-Operation and Conflict in Africa
The growth of both co-operation and conflict among the states of Africa is illustrative of the trend towards regionalism in world politics.1 The current international system contains a large number and rich diversity of actors. Most new countries are essentially regional states; although they are dependent on international exchange, their primary foreign policy concerns are concentrated at the regional level. The immediate issues which African st…
States in Evolution: Changing Societies and Traditional Systems in World Politics
Livres/Books
Accelerated Development in Southern Africa
Zambia and Malawi: The Politics of Dependence and Development
The OAU and the UN: Relations between the Organization of African Unity and the United Nations
Journal Article The OAU and the UN: relations between the Organization of African Unity and the United Nations Get access The OAU and the UN: relations between the Organization of African Unity and the United Nations, by Berhanykun Andemicael. Africana/Holmes & Meier for United Nations Institute for Training and Research, 1976. xx+331pp. Bibliography, index. The Organization of African Unity after Ten Years: comparative perspectives, edited by Ya…
International organizations and the politics of Southern Africa: Towards Regional Integration or Liberation
The balance of power in Southern Africa has shifted since 1973 with the independence of Mozambique and Angola and with increased pressures on the white regimes in Rhodesia and South West Africa. However, Southern Africa continues to be a distinctive regional subsystem' dominated by the hegemony of South Africa and characterized by substantial economic, military and social interactions. It is somewhat premature to suggest that a revolutionary situ…
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