Table Of ContentDiplomacy and Borderlands
This book examines Africa’s internal and external relations by focusing on three
core concepts: orders, diplomacy and borderlands.
The contributors examine traditional and non-traditional diplomatic actors,
and domestic, regional, continental, and global orders. They argue that
African diplomats profoundly shape these orders by situating themselves within
in-between-spaces of geographical and functional orders. It is in these border-
lands that agency, despite all kinds of constraints, flourishes. Chapters in the
book compare domestic orders to regional ones, and then continental African
orders to global ones. They deal with a range of functional orders, including
development, international trade, human rights, migration, nuclear arms control,
peacekeeping, public administration, and territorial change. By focusing on these
topics, the volume contributes to a better understanding of African international
relations, sharpens analyses of ordering processes in world politics, and adds to
our comprehension of how diplomacy shapes orders and vice versa. The studies
collected here show a much more nuanced picture of African agency in African
and international affairs and suggest that African diplomacy is far more exten-
sive than is often assumed.
This book will be of much interest to students of diplomacy studies, African
politics and International Relations.
Katharina P. Coleman is Associate Professor of Political Science at the
University of British Columbia, Canada.
Markus Kornprobst holds the Chair of Political Science and International
Relations at the Vienna School of International Studies, Austria.
Annette Seegers is Professor Emeritus at the University of Cape Town, South
Africa.
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Diplomacy and Borderlands
African Agency at the Intersections
of Orders
Edited by Katharina P. Coleman,
Markus Kornprobst, and
Annette Seegers
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Contents
List of figures vii
List of tables viii
List of abbreviations ix
List of contributors xii
Introduction: orders, borderlands and diplomacy – African
actors in world politics 1
KATHARINA P. COLEMAN, MARKUS KORNPROBST,
AND ANNETTE SEEGERS
1 Where local and global orders interface: an analysis of how
civil society actors contextualise human rights norms in
South Africa 23
MAXINE RUBIN AND MASANA NDINGA-KANGA
2 Human rights in South Africa’s identity: the interplay of
international and domestic mechanisms in South Africa’s
identity in global politics 47
ANNETTE SEEGERS
3 Zaire’s exile–diplomats: African agency in
overlapping orders 72
COLIN HENDRICKX
4 The borderlands of order in the borderlands of
Africa: Katanga and the Caprivi Strip 91
JAN ERK
vi Contents
5 Establishment of a new regional order in the Horn
of Africa 112
SONIA LE GOURIELLEC
6 The ECOWAS Commission and the making of regional
order in West Africa: intersecting logics in international
public administration 130
STEFAN GÄNZLE, JARLE TRONDAL, AND NADJA KÜHN
7 Overlaps and distinctiveness: Africa’s nuclear order 153
MARKUS KORNPROBST
8 African diplomacy in United Nations
peacekeeping operations 173
KATHARINA P. COLEMAN
9 Non-impunity, the International Criminal Court and the
African Union: exploring the borderland of the
international orders related to non-impunity 194
MARTIN WELZ
10 Stirring the pot: the African Union and the
international order 212
THOMAS KWASI TIEKU
11 Africa in the throes of global pushes and pulls 235
EGHOSA E. OSAGHAE
Conclusion 258
KATHARINA P. COLEMAN, MARKUS KORNPROBST,
AND ANNETTE SEEGERS
Index 267
Figures
6.1 Percentage of officials who agree or strongly agree that the
following considerations and concerns are very important
(Mean N = 40) 143
6.2 Percentage of officials who report that tensions often or
almost always occur within or between the following
(Mean N = 34) 145
6.3 Percentage of officials who agree or strongly agree that
coordination is efficient and effective in each of the following
areas (Mean N = 41) 145
6.4 Percentage of officials who either agreed or strongly agreed
that the following models of the ECOWAS Commission
were preferable/likely (Mean N = 34) 146
Tables
6.1 F our behavioural logics 135
6.2 ECOWAS Commission: distribution across staff categories 136
6.3 Percentage of officials who report that they spend much
or very much time on the following tasks 142
6.4 Percentage of officials who report that they often or very
often are in contact with the following counterparts 143
6.5 Percentage of officials who agree or strongly agree that
arguments from the following are of high importance 144
Abbreviations
AAM Anti-Apartheid Movement
AAPC All-African People’s Conference
ACABQ Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions
ACCORD African Centre for Constructive Resolution of Disputes
ACDP African Christian Democratic Party
ACERWC African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the
Child
ACJHPR African Court of Justice and Human and Peoples’ Rights
AFRA African Regional Cooperation Agreement for Research,
Development and Training
ANC African National Congress
ANENP African Network for Enhancing Nuclear Power Programme
Development
APSA African Peace and Security Architecture
AUDA Secretariat of the African Union Development Agency-New
Partnership for Africa’s Development
AU African Union
ASF African Standby Force
BSAC British South Africa Company
CADSP Common African Defence and Security Policy
CA Constitutional Assembly
CANU Caprivi African National Union
CEDAW Convention for the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination
against Women
CODESA Convention for a Democratic South Africa
COMESA Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa
CONAKAT Confédération des associations tribal du Katanga
CSO Civil Society Organization
CSSDCA Conference on Security, Stability, Development, and
Co-operation in Africa
CSVR Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation
CUDP Coalition for Unity and Democracy Party
DIRCO Department of International Relations and Cooperation
