Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Introduction , Part I. Sovereignty and statehood ; Independence by right , Part II. Africa and the international order ; Policy autonomy and the history of British aid to Africa , Part III. New states and the continental order ; The scramble for Africa: inherited political boundaries , Part IV. Africa and the great powers ; French African policy in historical perspective , Part V. Conflict, war, and intervention ; Rebel movements and proxy warfare: Uganda, Sudan and the Congo (1986-99) , Part VI. Globalization and a new world order? ; "A project to be realized": global liberalism and contemporary Africa , Part VII. African renaissance? The African Union and NEPAD ; Explaining the clash and accommodation of interests of major actors in the creation of the African Union , Part VIII. The return of geopolitics ; China, India, Russia and the United States: the scramble for African oil and the militarization of the continent , A new phase in the war on terror: the implications of proxy intelligence and western complicity with state terrorist agencies , Introduction , Regimes of sovereignty: international morality and the African condition , The rise of the state system in Africa , "Development is very political in Tanzania": Oxfam and the Chunya Integrated Development Programme 1972-76 , Evolution of the United Nations anti-apartheid regime , What next? Selective genocide in Burundi , The OAU interventions in Chad: mission impossible or mission evaded? , Propaganda and politics , "Flee! The white giants are coming!" The United States, the mercenaries and the Congo 1964-65 , The prospects of socialism: Ethiopia and the Horn Odd , The United Nations in Africa: the rise of peacekeeping and the case of Somalia , The liberal peace is neither: peacebuilding, state building and the reproduction of conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo , Values, context and hybridity: how can the insights from the liberal peace critique literature be brought to bear on the practices of the UN peacebuilding architecture? , Is the EU's governance "good?": an assessment of EU governance in its partnership with ACP states , Female circumcision as female genital mutilation: human rights or cultural imperialism? , Politics, anti-politics, international justice: language and power in the special court for Sierra Leone , "Partnership" through accommodation? African development initiatives and universal policy prescriptions , The power of partnerships in global governance , Towards a critical geopolitics of China's engagement with African development , Policy autonomy and the history of British aid to Africa , Rebel movements and proxy warfare: Uganda, Sudan and the Congo (1986-99) , French African policy in historical perspective , Explaining the clash and accommodation of interests of major actors in the creation of the African Union , Independence by right , "A project to be realized": global liberalism and contemporary Africa , China, India, Russia and the United States: the scramble for African oil and the militarization of the continent , The scramble for Africa: inherited political boundaries , A new phase in the war on terror: the implications of proxy intelligence and western complicity with state terrorist agencies