From "tragedy" to "miracle"? Africa in the new multipolar context

156

Booklet

Publication date:

March 2015

This booklet aims to analyse which elements characterise the political, social and economic reality of Africa against the backdrop of the new political and economic context of the modern world, (multipolarity, the leadership of emerging markets such as China, India and Brazil, as well as so-called South-South Cooperation). Is Africa facing a new and hopeful future in contrast with a present and a past that has been dominated by war, hunger and poverty?

Africa

North-South Inequalities & Globalization

Economy & Society

Poverty & Social Exclusion

Author

Oscar

Mateos Martín

Member of the social area of CJ. Professor of International Relations at the Facultat de Comunicació i Relacions Internacionals Blanquerna (Universitat Ramon Llull) and coordinator of the GLOBALCODES research group. He is a member of the Governing Board of the Institut Català per la Pau (ICIP). He works on issues related to global governance, conflicts, peace and security, with a special focus on the African continent. She was responsible for the social area of CJ between 2010 and 2020. With CJ he has published The Pandemic Shock (Booklet nº 179), From "tragedy" to "miracle"? Africa in the new multipolar context (Booklet nº 156)