Kevin Baliat. International Politics . Final Paper. 5/21/2017.

As many know through the news, Sub- Saharan Africa is not a wealthy nor financially stable

Kingsley Moghalu author of Emerging Africa: How the Global Economy's Last Frontier Can Prosper argues that the African economic can be transformed once there is a paradigm shift. which includes African countries creating complex products, the development of a stronger intuition, the use of propaganda and development of central banks. He believes that African countries can gain wealth and prosperity once these paradigm shifts are applied.

Poverty, hunger, famine, mud huts, uneducated, AIDs, and disease might be some typical terms someone might think of when they hear about the continent of Africa. For years, Africa has been considered the poorest continent, but change is rapidly approaching. Skyscrapers, educations, technology, developed, shopping malls, growing, and fashionable might not be particular worlds a common person would use to describe Africa, but research suggests that these words might be used in the near future. The purpose of this paper is to inform the reader of the rapid growth in Africa and explain what is causing the growth. The paper will also discuss what new entrants into the African market will have to focus on in order to be successful.

That is, how did the doctrine change the status quo regionally or globally after it was announced by the U.S.? What happened in Western Europe after the Truman Doctrine was announced? What happened in the Middle East after the Eisenhower Doctrine was announced? What happened with Cuba or Vietnam after Kennedy offered up his doctrine of flexible response? What happened in Southeast Asia or the Persian Gulf after the Nixon Doctrine went in effect? What happened in the Middle East after the Carter Doctrine was announced? What happened in Central

Foreign to Africa has caused little to no outside investment in business within the continent and a sizable portion of the continent’s savings are

Africa is a continent that attracted European countries decades ago, who colonized various countries in Africa in search of gold, iron, zinc, diamond and especially crude oil. It is sad that most of these countries with natural resources still suffer immensely from lack of basic things such as clean water, light, cooking gas, good schools, roads, good health care etc.

“I 'm hearing only bad news from Radio Africa, I 'm hearing only sad news from Radio Africa”, sang the pop group ‘Latin Quarter’ in their song “Radio Africa” released in 1985. ‘Radio Africa’ refers to all the news you hear about from the Western press and sadly, this quote still holds truth with the reportings of Africa by the Western press. The situation is made even worse by the fact that the ‘bad news’ is not even reported until it becomes a disaster of epic proportions. We have just recently witnessed the reporting of the Ebola Crisis in West Africa and the abduction of the 200 Chibok schoolgirls in Nigeria by terrorists Boko Haram. These events were barely covered until they became a crisis. With reference to the reporting of the genocide in Rwanda, it “claimed the spotlight only after there were indisputably ‘lots of dead bodies’” (Carruthers, 2011, p.166). Western press collectively ignores Africa at best and at worst report only ‘bad news’ creating the impression that Africa is at best irrelevant and at worst barbaric. The Western press refers to the press of many developed countries and continents such as Europe and in addition, countries that have been colonised by them such as America. Peter Adamson, founder and author of UNICEF’s annual State of the World’s Children report observed that “western audiences dramatically over-estimate the problems and dependency of people in the developing countries” (Diane Publishing, 1995, p.31). He argues that Western news’

The Criminalisation of the State in Africa is an unhelpful and inaccurate phenomena which postulates that at the heart of political and governmental institutions within Africa lies crime. It is clear that in the wake of globalisation and post-colonial neoliberal reforms Africa has struggled to maintain its stature in the world wide global economy; the GDP for the whole of Sub-Saharan Africa stands at $744 billion, which is just 28% of Chinas. The rise of the Asian Tiger economies in the east marked the beginning of modern globalisation; improvements in technology and the outsourcing of

North American media coverage of Africa often times paints a pictures of a vast waste land of poverty and death. One is often led to believe that the entire continent is just an undeveloped desert, with citizens living only in mud huts, tormented by rebel armies on a mission to rape and plunder then burn villages to the ground. This understanding is incredibly dangerous and are often warped to fit a certain agenda. African cities like Lagos, Cape Town, Windhoek, or Cape Town are much like those in found across America and are not as rare as it would made to be seen, but despite this, many areas of Africa do struggle. The Democratic Republic of Congo is one country in particular that has and continues to struggle to find it’s footing in a global

To what extent is it true, or not true that Africa remains poor on account of a long history of exploitation by more powerful countries around the world? For most of human history, the whole world has been poor, however, Africa has always been known to be poor. Europe, mainly England, started to lift itself out of poverty in the 18th century with the industrial and agricultural revolutions, but Africa was left behind as the rest of the world was industrializing. There are many reasons for Africa being poor, that includes: corruption, disease, exploitation, geography and religion. In this essay, I am going to explain what factors affected Africa and made the country so poor.

When an individual has got lot of resources, they are usually wealthy. This might be true for most but not for Africa. Africa is said to be the richest continent in the world when in terms of natural resources (Ebegubulem, 2012). Yet it is the poorest according to the nominal Gross Domestic Product calculation (Mannak,2008). That is why I agree with Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf”s statement that she made at the Nelson Mandela annual lecture in 2008, which reads: “Africa is not poor, it is poorly managed”. It is seen that Africa is wealthy yet it is encountering low levels of economic growth as it is not developing. Is it because of power? As Africa is one of the continents which suffered greatly from the independence of its land, which was under the

Today, China attempts to lawfully purloin African resources with an extremely self-promotional strategy. The country aims to maintain access to Africa’s sought after natural resources, regardless of the detrimental consequences for Africa. Some argue that the increase in exporting that China creates will help Africa’s economy develop, however these specific resources can hurt the economy long term. This is seen in examples such as Nigeria and Angola, Sub-Saharan Africa’s two largest oil exporters. Oil and mining are not labor intensive industries, therefore while these natural deposits may create impressive growth figures, they do not translate into widespread job creation. In fact, an economy solely based upon large oil and mineral reserves distorts the local currency. The prices of other exports then increase and it makes them hard to sell overseas, a phenomenon labeled the “Dutch disease.” Without careful management, something China has not provided, the oil and mineral revenue will

The governments in Africa has failed to create enough jobs for its citizens and this has further prompted people here to participate in unethical means for earning money. Blood money rituals and armed robbery have grown many folds in different parts of Africa and women in some regions are forced to turn to prostitution so that they are able to provide their families with food and shelter. With a large part of its people sitting unemployed, poverty rates in Africa are becoming larger than ever.

Kegley and Raymond stated: “The shape of the world’s future will be determined not only by changes in the objective conditions of world politics, but also by the meanings people ascribe to these conditions.” Terrorism is presently a major factor in international relations and has impacted the world to change in many significant ways. Terrorism is a political ideology that has been problematic in defining definitely because of its various interpretations around the world, as well as the fact that it is constantly evolving. Since the terrorist events of 9/11, the lives of many have been changed forever. A small group of individuals, which are a mere fraction of the population of the world, have managed to impact and shape the way international and domestic relations are looked at and handled. People question how secure and safe they feel due to uncertainty of public safety because of events such as 9/11. The war on terrorism in the 21st century has certainly and inevitably changed the landscape for global politics. However, the relationship between terrorism and global politics is troublesome and in ways problematic to describe accurately. Both terrorism and global politics individually are complicated phenomenon. It is erroneous to propose that one is responsible for the other or vice versa, but they are inextricably and inevitably linked. In the study of international relations, there are multiple theories and theoretical perspectives. In this essay, realism and liberalism

My global issue is geopolitics. Geopolitics is politics, dealing with international relations, that are influenced by geographical factors. Some factors that have to do with geopolitics are climate, demography, natural disasters, and the elevation of an area.