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What is the state of knowledge on African foreign policy making in the twenty-first century, both toward international organizations and otherwise? In the main, the introduction to this edited volume argues that although what it terms the “Omnipotent African Executive Model” of foreign policy analysis used to be relevant, a combination of newly powerful actors and shifts in geopolitics have led a moment of “Decentered Inputs” in African foreign policymaking.
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Warner, J. (2018). Introduction. In: Warner, J., Shaw, T. (eds) African Foreign Policies in International Institutions. Contemporary African Political Economy. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-57574-6_1
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