The Foreign Policies of East African States

This book analyses the foreign policies of African countries, specifically in the region of East Africa.

Autorentext

Jude Kagoro is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Intercultural and International Studies (InIIS), Bremen University, Germany.

Julian Friesinger works as a Programme Manager for Andreas Hermes Akademie, Germany.

Klaus Schlichte is Professor of International Relations and World Society at the University of Bremen, Germany.

Inhalt

Introduction 1. The Historicity of International Relations in East Africa 2. The "Foreign Relations" of Uganda's Budget 3. Ensuring Intra-Regional Stability to Enable External Efficiency: The EAC as a Fragile Embryonic Security Community? 4. The "Impossible Mission" of the East African Community Regional Force (EACRF) to Fight the M23 Rebellion in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) 5. Rwanda-Uganda Relations: Elites' Attitudes and Perceptions in Inter-State Relations 6. "Seductions" of the International? Strategic Propping of Rwanda's Image in International Society 7. A Shift in Tanzania's Foreign Policy Towards Israel 8. An Examination of the Central Predicate of Uganda's Foreign Policy in the Great Lakes Region 9. War as Foreign Policy: Waltzian Imagery and the Great Lakes Region of Africa. Afterword: Foreign policy in East Africa after the Rwanda genocide