Australia and Africa

Dr Nikola Pijović is a Research Fellow at the Africa Research and Engagement Centre (AfREC), University of Western Australia. He specializes in Australian foreign policy, and is a leading authority on Australia’s engagement with Africa, having published academic and media articles on Australia and Africa, as well as providing submissions to the Australian Parliament on the country’s relations with African states. Dr Pijović’s research also focuses on comparative foreign policy-making in two-party political systems, and especially the distinctions between ‘core’ and ‘peripheral’ foreign policy. He has also published extensively on statehood, insurgency, and terrorism in Somalia and Somaliland.

• Introduction.- Section 1 Australia’s historical engagement with Africa.- Chapter 1 Colonials or Liberators? Early Australians in Africa.- Chapter 2 White Australia meets a decolonizing Africa.- Chapter 3 A new approach?.- Chapter 4 Brokering independence for Zimbabwe.- Chapter 5 The end of an Era.- Section 2 Australia’s contemporary engagement with Africa.- Chapter 6 The post-Cold War ‘Decline of Africa’.- Chapter 7 John Howard’s African paradox: It’s all about the Commonwealth.- Chapter 8 The millennial ‘Rise of Africa’.- Chapter 9 ‘New Engagement’ with Africa.- Chapter 10 Retreat from Africa?.- Chapter 11 Conclusion: The future of Australia and Africa.