This book investigates why Africa has been marginalised in IR discipline and theory and how this issue can be addressed in the context of the emerging Global IR paradigm. To have relevance for Africa, a new IR theory needs to be more inclusive, intellectually negotiated and holistically steeped in the African context. In this innovative volume, each author takes a critical look at existing IR paradigms and offers a unique perspective based on the African experience. Following on from Amitav Acharya and Barry Buzan's work, Non-Western International Relations Theory, it develops and advances non-Western IR theory and the idea of Global IR.

1 Africa in Global International Relations: Emerging Approaches to Theory and Practice, An Introduction Paul-Henri Bischoff Kwesi Aning and Amitav Acharya 2 A Critique of Failing International Relations Theories in African Tests Ahmed Salem 3 Feminist IR and the study of Africa: (still) together on the theoretical margins? Heidi Hudson 4 Disciplining the Developing World? Perspectives from a South African IR Candice Moore 5 Soft balancing among African weak states: A challenge to Realists International Relations Theory Leslie Blaauw 6 Africa in international relations: agent, bystander or victim? Jo-Ansie van Wyck 7 An Emerging, Established or Receding Normative Agent? Probing the African Union's Recent Response to and Intervention in Libya Gerrie Swart 8 Africanizing the international and internationalizing Africa: security, war on terror and Mali Kwesi Aning and Nancy Annan 9 Bridging the Gap: The Pan-African School and International Relations Theory Tim Murithi