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Insight Turkey > Issues | A New Scramble for Africa? The Role of Great and Emerging Powers - Winter 2019 / Volume 21, Number 1

A New Scramble for Africa? The Role of Great and Emerging Powers



Editor's Notes


Guest Editor's Note | Winter 2019
Africa has often been the focus of contradictory attention that has oscillated between the labels of a physical obstacle to travel between Europe and the East, a geostrategic continent, a collection of failed or failing states, to now a geo-economically important continent with potentially viable markets because of its many and rapidly growing economies endowed with strategic minerals. With the dawn of the 21st century and the reality of strategic rivalry between the United States and China, coupled with the global involvement of middle and emerging powers in particular Russia, Japan, Turkey, Iran, and India many issues are coming to the fore. Africa is now experiencing a new “scramble” for its strategic minerals, the buying power of its growing middle class, its significant choke points, its diplomatic importance and growing influence in international organizations, among others.


Commentaries


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Articles


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Book Reviews


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