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It is not easy to track policy thinking around Europe, but fresh ideas and new reports from over 130 think tanks and universities that make up the Europe's World Advisory Board are featured under Partner Network.
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The fourteenth edition of Europe's World is out. We feel it's fair to say that few if any publications in the field of international relations and policy debate have grown as fast or widened their scope so remarkably as Europe's World. Table of contents of Issue 14. The search is on for 'global governance' solutions to the world's economic and political problems. The trouble is, of course, that there's not much agreement across Europe or around the world on what sort of policy instruments, institutions and rules would open the way to a fairer international system serving the needs of North and South, East and West while avoiding the pitfalls that led to the global crisis. Read more |
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Background
The African continent may be about to escape the marginalisation from world politics in which the end of the Cold War landed it. Both the Western powers and China seem to be re-engaging with the continent, both economically and politically, driven by humanitarian concerns, concerns for their own security as well economic motives. China seems to be interested in Africa for several reasons: As a market for its industrial products (which tend to be more affordable for African consumers than those from the West) and as a potential source of energy and other resources needed for its economic development. Some see this as the beginning of a new ‘scramble for Africa’ in which China and the powers of the West are likely to collide, whereas others are more optimistic and view the rising China as a future partner, largely sharing the values and concerns of the West.
Taking as her point of departure the China-Africa Summit of November 2006 and the EU-Africa Lisbon Summit of 2007, Professor Maxi Schoeman will compare the two approaches and assess prospects and obstacles to future China-Africa-Europe relations, with a special emphasis on the implications for the African continent.
Maxi Schoeman is Professor and Head of the Department of Political Sciences at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. She specialises in continental security issues and African political economy. Schoeman serves on the South African Ministry of Defence’s Transformation Advisory and Monitoring Board and is Deputy Chair of the Institute of Global Dialogue in Midrand, South Africa.
Programme
15.00-15.15
Introduction
Bjørn Møller, Senior Researcher, DIIS
15.15-16.00
China and Africa: Whose Opportunity; Whose Challenge?
Maxi Schoeman, Professor, University of Pretoria, South Africa
16.00-16.15
Coffee Break
16.15-17.00
Open Discussion
Chair: Bjørn Møller, Senior Researcher, DIIS
Practical Information
The seminar will be held in English.
Participation is free of charge, but registration is required. Please register here (http://www.diis.dk/sw66683.asp) no later than Tuesday, 14 October 2008 at 12.00 noon.
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