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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Abrahamsen, Rita

Titel

Internationalists, sovereigntists, nativists: Contending visions of world order in Pan-Africanism

Ist Teil von

• Review of international studies, 2020-01, Vol.46 (1), p.56-74

Ort / Verlag

London: Cambridge University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

Quelle

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Abstract Contrary to common assumptions that the liberal world order was ‘made in the West’, this article argues that it was produced in interaction with Pan-African ideology and actors. Developing a morphological analysis, it identifies three contending visions of world order within Pan-Africanism: a world of continental unity and transnational solidarity; a world of national sovereignty; and a world of racially defined units. It concludes that Pan-Africanism contains intellectual and political resources for the defence, reinvigoration, and invention of a more just, equal and rule-bound multilateral world, but that this cannot be taken for granted. Pan-Africanism is neither inherently progressive, nor reactionary, and can support multilateralism and sovereigntism in equal measure. Pan-Africanism's nativism also carries particular risks at a time when similar identitarian viewpoints are promoted by Radical Right movements. Understanding the manner in which Pan-Africanism informs and legitimises diverse political agendas is thus of crucial importance for IR, for Pan-Africanists, and for the future of world order.