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Scramble with a New Africa: Comparing Strategies and Policies for the Future of Africa

The relationship of Africa with the rest of the world is undergoing a fascinating transformation. While more than ever, economists point to the potential of Africa's development, the strategic community is often reducing its focus on the rising role of China and other emerging powers in the extraction of natural resources on the African continent.

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Monday
Jun. 13, 2011
12:00pm – 1:00pm ET

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Ludger Kühnhardt, Professor of Political Science, University of Bonn, and Public Policy Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center

The relationship of Africa with the rest of the world is undergoing a fascinating transformation. While more than ever, economists point to the potential of Africa's development, the strategic community is often reducing its focus on the rising role of China and other emerging powers in the extraction of natural resources on the African continent.

In reality, the world is not facing a new scramble for Africa but rather the scramble with a new Africa. More than ever, Africa itself is defining the parameters of its own future. External players are actively pursuing their own interests in Africa while trying to form partnerships with the continent that has so far been the least affected by globalization.

Public Policy Scholar Ludger Kühnhardt is currently studying the interplay of African strategies for the future of Africa with the African strategies of external actors, notably the US, the European Union, China, India and the Arab world. He argues that while the approaches of African and non-African players often focus on different priorities, methods and objectives, it has become a test-case for smart multilateralism to find as much common ground as possible between the different approaches and strategies concerning Africa and its future. Ludger Kühnhardt, Professor of Political Science, is on sabbatical leave from the University of Bonn, Germany, where he directs the Center for European Integration Studies ZEI. His home institution is looking a great deal into issues of comparative regionalism with a current focus on Africa. In this Wilson Center workshop he will report about his work-in- progress.

 

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Global Europe Program

The Global Europe Program addresses vital issues affecting the European continent, US-European relations, and Europe’s ties with the rest of the world. We investigate European approaches to critical global issues: digital transformation, climate, migration, global governance. We also examine Europe’s relations with Russia and Eurasia, China and the Indo-Pacific, the Middle East and Africa. Our program activities cover a wide range of topics, from the role of NATO, the European Union and the OSCE to European energy security, trade disputes, challenges to democracy, and counter-terrorism. The Global Europe Program’s staff, scholars-in-residence, and Global Fellows participate in seminars, policy study groups, and international conferences to provide analytical recommendations to policy makers and the media.  Read more

Africa Program

The Africa Program works to address the most critical issues facing Africa and US-Africa relations, build mutually beneficial US-Africa relations, and enhance knowledge and understanding about Africa in the United States. The Program achieves its mission through in-depth research and analyses, public discussion, working groups, and briefings that bring together policymakers, practitioners, and subject matter experts to analyze and offer practical options for tackling key challenges in Africa and in US-Africa relations.    Read more

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