Tim Shaw is Research Professor and Graduate Program Director in Global Governance and Human Security at the University of Massachusetts Boston, USA and Emeritus Professor at the University of London, UK. He has an extraordinary record, both as a scholar and administrator, most recently as Professor and Director at the Institute of International Relations at the University of the West Indies, St Augustine in Trinidad; Associate Research Fellow at UNU Comparative Regional Integration Studies in Bruges and Senior Fellow at Centre for International Governance Innovation at the University of Waterloo. He has edited the International Political Economy series for Palgrave Macmillan for more than 30 years.

• Lists of Maps and Tables - List of Boxes - Preface - List of Acronyms - Introduction: Beyond the Dialectics of Dependence - The African Condition: From Crisis to Conjuncture - The Continent in the 1990s: New Factors and Forces - Into the Twenty-first Century: Marginal or Central? - Conclusion: African Studies and African States - Appendix: OAU Treaty Establishing the African Economic Community, June 1991 - References - Index

Tim Shaw is Research Professor and Graduate Program Director in Global Governance and Human Security at the University of Massachusetts Boston, USA and Emeritus Professor at the University of London, UK. He has an extraordinary record, both as a scholar and administrator, most recently as Professor and Director at the Institute of International Relations at the University of the West Indies, St Augustine in Trinidad; Associate Research Fellow at UNU Comparative Regional Integration Studies in Bruges and Senior Fellow at Centre for International Governance Innovation at the University of Waterloo. He has edited the International Political Economy series for Palgrave Macmillan for more than 30 years.

• Lists of Maps and Tables - List of Boxes - Preface - List of Acronyms - Introduction: Beyond the Dialectics of Dependence - The African Condition: From Crisis to Conjuncture - The Continent in the 1990s: New Factors and Forces - Into the Twenty-first Century: Marginal or Central? - Conclusion: African Studies and African States - Appendix: OAU Treaty Establishing the African Economic Community, June 1991 - References - Index

Tim Shaw is Research Professor and Graduate Program Director in Global Governance and Human Security at the University of Massachusetts Boston, USA and Emeritus Professor at the University of London, UK. He has an extraordinary record, both as a scholar and administrator, most recently as Professor and Director at the Institute of International Relations at the University of the West Indies, St Augustine in Trinidad; Associate Research Fellow at UNU Comparative Regional Integration Studies in Bruges and Senior Fellow at Centre for International Governance Innovation at the University of Waterloo. He has edited the International Political Economy series for Palgrave Macmillan for more than 30 years.

• Lists of Maps and Tables - List of Boxes - Preface - List of Acronyms - Introduction: Beyond the Dialectics of Dependence - The African Condition: From Crisis to Conjuncture - The Continent in the 1990s: New Factors and Forces - Into the Twenty-first Century: Marginal or Central? - Conclusion: African Studies and African States - Appendix: OAU Treaty Establishing the African Economic Community, June 1991 - References - Index