Dunn, Kevin C., and Timothy M. Shaw, ed. 2001. Africas's Challenge to International Relations Theory.

Houndmills, U.K.; and New York: Palgrave. 242 pp.

The best way to understand this collection of essays is in terms of Africa's marginality and in Africanists' effort to demonstrate that despite this marginality Africa is important. Why should anyone consider that Africa today is central to the study of international politics? Kevin Dunn and other contributors make two fundamental assertions. First, they argue that because the dominant paradigms in International Relations (IR) theory-realism, or neorealism, fail to explain much of the international political behavior of Africa ...