Africa Globalization in the News

• WHO: New quick TB test rolled out in Africa (07/01/08)
  

• Why South Africa's Mbeki won't rein in Mugabe (07/01/08)
  

• Congo peacekeepers helped heal bitter divisions at home (07/01/08)
  

• South Sudan tells Ugandan troops to leave (07/01/08)
  

• EU extends mandate of mission in DR Congo (07/01/08)
  

• AU Commends Kenya's grand coalition (07/01/08)
  

• U.S. pledges to increase health funding to Kenya (07/01/08)
  

• Australia opens up airspace to SA, Kenya (07/01/08)
  

• Rwanda: Anger over failure to hold genocide fugitive (07/01/08)
  

• Zimbabwe an issue for UN, not just Africa: US Secretary of State (06/30/08)
  

Africa-China Relations

• China's Presence Increasingly Important in Cooling the World’s Hot Spots (06/21/08)
  

• Angola: President Receives Chinese Businessman Interested in Investing (06/21/08)
  

• Oil prices hit $137 after fresh Nigeria outage (06/21/08)
  

• Africa Looks for Silver Lining in Food Crisis (06/21/08)
  

• In South Africa, Chinese is the New Black (06/19/08)
  

• Africa: Chasing China (06/19/08)
  

• Nigeria: Russian, Chinese Oil Firms Jostle for Ogoni (06/17/08)
  

• West Africa: Ecowas Positions for $10bn Chinese Aid (06/17/08)
  

• Africa: Concerns Over Chinese Investment And Working Conditions (06/17/08)
  

• Into Africa: China's Grab for Influence and Oil (06/12/08)
  

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Perspectives

• Globalization fueling arms trade in Africa contends an activist
  

• "Globalization without ethics impoverishes," says Philip Emeagwali in this keynote lecture at Michig
  

• Obama: 'Globalization and technology and automation all weaken the position of workers.'
  

• "Indians love globalization"
  

• Globalization Fuels Brave New World
  

• Globalization: A Panacea for World Economic Development?
  

• Religious Perspectives on Globalization
  

• The Challenges of Globalization for Africa
  

• African dictators and the forces of globalization
  

• Why Globalization is Older than We Think
  

• Obamamania
  

• Martin LeFevre: The End of Nationalism?
  

• What Comes After The U.S. Empire?
  

• THE PLACE OF THE DEVELOPING COUNTRIES IN GLOBALIZATION: UNCTAD PRESENTS THE LATEST FIGURES
  

• In Africa, One Step Forward and Two Back
  

• Globalisation Should Benefit the Least Developed Countries
  

• US Treasury Secretary Says Globalization Creates Wealth, But Unevenly
  

• China Challenges U.S., Europe in African Push
  

• Chinese And the Abuse of Nigerians
  

• The power of the Navy
  

GRCA Publications

   Papers:

2007

• "The Communist Party of China’s Ties to African Political Parties", Joshua Eisenman
• "The Power of an Alternative: Implications of the Chinese Response to Globalization", Yunxiang Yan
• "Chinese Business and African Development: Exploring 'Post-Conflict' Dimensions", Daniel Large
• "Can Chinese Investment Be a Catalyst for African Industrialization?", Deborah Brautigam
• "Chinese Workers in Africa: Working Conditions and Potential Conflicts", Sasha Gong
• "Uganda-China Relations in the 21st Century", Margaret Lee
• "“Chinese Devils?” Perceptions of the Chinese in Lomé's Central Market", Nina Sylvanus
• "Love at First Sight! or Confused Priorities: The Evolving China-Africa Relations", Fantu Cheru
• "India’s African Relations: Playing Catch up With the Dragon", Sanusha Naidu
• "Africa-Asia Trade and Investment: Challenges and Opportunities for African Economies", Yutaka Yoshino

2006

• "Towards an Organizing Framework for Addressing the Water and Sanitation Needs of the Developing World (Pt. 1)", David Tipping
• "Towards an Organizing Framework for Addressing the Water and Sanitation Needs of the Developing World (Pt. 2)", David Tipping
• "The Right to Water and Sanitation: A Useful Tool for Universal Service Delivery?", Laura Russ
• "Water Service Delivery and its Typologies in Urban Africa", Matthew Ryan Graham
• "African Water and Sanitation Bibliography", Matthew Ryan Graham

2005

• "The Peripheralization of the Urban Poor in the Local Manifestations of the Global Economy", Charisma Acey, Edmond Keller and Stephen Commins
• "The Contradictions of Water Management in Mexico", David Barkin and Daniel Klooster
• "Uneven Urban Development, Water and Finance during Africa’s Global Economic Integration", Patrick Bond
• "A Review of Privatization of Water and Sanitation Systems: The Case of Greater Buenos Aires", Martin Bosman
• "Globalization and uneven urbanization in Africa: the limits to effective Urban governance in the provision of basic services", Fantu Cheru
• "Globalization, Mega-projects and the Environment: Urban Form and Water in Jakarta", Mike Douglass
• "The Shifting of Public Authority in the Provision of Public Goods at the Local Level:", KINUTHIA MACHARIA
• "Water sector reforms in urban Africa: a road to mercantalization?", Davinder Lamba & Ali Memon
• "Globalization, Rapid Urbanization and Health Infrastructure", Deane Neubauer
• "Micro-Projects and Rapid Growth: Water provision and the case for clarifying privatization’s effects on public health", James H. Spencer
• "Urban Governance and Infrastructure Development: the cases of water, sewerage and sanitation systems", Tipping
• "Water in Northern Cities", Mark Amen
• "Globalisation, Cities and the Right to Water: Where are the Connections?", Jo Beall

2004

• "Global Democracy In A Post Cold War Era: A Multi-Country Comparative Assessment of Africa's Performance", Rita Kiki Edozie, Department of Politica
• "Globalization's Paradoxical Impact on State-Society Relations in Africa", Kidane Mengisteab
• "US and African Perspectives on Aid and Trade Policies", Fantu Cheru
• "Debt, External Actors, and Stalled Development in Africa", Thomas Callaghy
• "The United States and Africa: Meeting the Challenges of Globalization and Human Security", Edmond J. Keller
• "African Peacekeeping and US-Africa Relations", Severine Rugumamu
• "U.S. Intervention in Africa’s Ethnic Conflicts: The Scope for Action", Donald Rothchild, Nikolas Emmanuel
• "HIV/AIDS in Africa and US National Security", Sandra Joireman
• "The Horn of Africa, the US and Security Challenges", Ruth Iyob, Edmond J. Keller
• "The US, Globalization, and Natural Resource Wars in Africa: An Illustration from the Sudan", Lako Tongun
• "Human Security and Africa-US Relations", Caroline Thomas
• "Lessons Learned in the War Against HIV/AIDS in Kenya", Alfred K. Neumann

2003

• "The Political Salience of Cultural Difference: Why Chewas and Tumbukas are Allies in Zambia and Adversaries in Malawi", Daniel Posner
• "Development Despots: Foreign Aid, Domestic Politics, and the Quality of Governance", Barak Hoffman
• "Can Foreign Aid Buy Growth?", William Easterly
• "Economic Shocks and Civil Conflict: An Instrumental Approach", Edward Miguel, Shanker Satyanath

2002

• "Multiparty Competition, Founding Elections and Political Business Cycles in Africa", Steven A. Block, Smita Singh, Karen E. F
• "Ethnic Identity, Collective Action, and Conflict:", Macartan Humphreys, Daniel N. Posner
• "Tribe or Nation? Nation-Building and Public Goods in Kenya versus Tanzania", Edward Miguel
• "Time, Perspective, Choice and Uncertainty:", Stephen Commins
• "Globalization, Mass Communication, Democracy, and Security in Africa: Some Considerations", Folu F. Ogundimu
• "Globalization and the Deepening of Democracy", Sandra F. Joireman
• "Outline for Globalization and African Regional Security", Donald Rothchild
• "Economics and Human Rights: Making Globalization", Fantu Cheru
• "Globalization and Human Security: Framing the Issues", Edmond J. Keller
• "Globalization and the Democracy Project in Africa: A Comment", Ebere Onwudiwe
• "Dictators with Empty Pockets:", Clark C. Gibson, Barak Hoffman
• "Why Study Gender Issues in the Economies of Sub-Saharan Africa?", Michael Kevane

Online Policy Briefs

• "Economic Impact of HIV/AIDS in Botswana", Erika Reynolds, March 2008
• "Access to Water in Nigerian Cities: Advocating for Africa's Urban Poor", Charisma Acey, September 2007
• "Hydropolitics and Regional Stability in the Nile Basin", Aaron Tesfaye, August 2006
• "From Cotton to Petroleum: African Economic Viability and Global Priorities", Dena Montague, January 2005
• "World Begins to React to the Tragedy of Sudan", Edmond J. Keller, September 2004

Books

• "HIV/AIDS in Africa", eds, Edith Mukudi Omwami, Stephen Commins, & Edmond J Keller, May 2008
• "Africa-US Relations: Strategic Encounters", Donald Rothchild and Edmond J. Keller, editors,

Journals

• "Connection and Constitution: Locating War and Culture in Globalization Studies", Tarak Barkawi, December 2004
• "Promoting Human Rights in the Era of Globalization and Interventions: The Changing Spaces of Struggle", Micheline Ishay, December 2004
• "The New Geography of Global Civil Society: NGOs in the World City Network", Peter J. Taylor, December 2004
• "The Washington Consensus Meets the Global Backlash", Robin Broad, December 2004

Online Photo Essays

• Maasailand in Transition: Globalization Reaches the African Savannah
• African Women, Shea Butter, and Globalization