In light of the growing number of African summits and a new awareness of international interdependence during the COVID-19 pandemic, this book provides a comprehensive analysis of the current state of Africa's international relations (IR). Leading IR scholars from Africa and around the world examine international cooperation with African countries in areas such as health care, education, and peacekeeping and explore how Africa's role in the system of international relations has changed during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The book is divided into four parts, the first of which explores analyzes the various actors that constitute African agency in the post-pandemic world, while the second focuses on the summits of the major powers regarding cooperation with Africa. The third part covers public health cooperation and regional initiatives in Africa, including issues such as vaccine diplomacy, while the fourth and final part discusses conflicts & political process despite COVID Pandemics.

Offers a comprehensive analysis of the current state of Africa's international relations Examines international cooperation with African countries in areas such as health care, education, and peacekeeping Explores how Africa's role in the system of international relations has changed during the COVID-19 pandemic

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Alexey Vasiliev is Honorary President of RAS Institute for African Studies (Russia). Between 2006 and 2011, he was Special Representative of President of Russia for contacts with leaders of African states. Over the five decades of academic work, he has published 40 books and more than 900 articles.

Denis Degterev is Head of the Department of Theory and History of International Relations at RUDN University, Moscow (Russia), and he also teaches at MGIMO-University, MFA of Russia. He published over 200 papers in leading journals. He specializes in development cooperation, Africa, and has written extensively on Global South. In 2002-2005, he worked in West Africa.  Timothy M. Shaw is Faculty Fellow at the Department of Conflict Resolution, Human Security, and Global Governance, McCormack Graduate School, UMass Boston (USA). Some of his areas of expertise are international political economy, human development and human security, and African and Caribbean regions. He has written and edited more than ten books. 

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Chapter 1 African Summitry: Representation of External Other in the Power Transit Era.- Part 1: African Agency in Post-Pandemic World.- Chapter 2: The Interface between Article 4(h) of the Constitutive Act and the African People's Agency: The Role of the AU in Post-Pandemic African Diplomacy.- Chapter 3: The Global Demographic Change and Africa-Asia Relations: Beyond Big Power Summits.- Chapter 4: Post-Covid-19 African Development Challenges in African Think Tanks Studies.- Chapter 5: Cameroon and China Educational Cooperation in the Post-Covid Era: The Case of Chinese Language Teaching and Learning.- Chapter 6: Promotion Strategies for Mitigating the Impact of Covid-19 on Kenya's Exports.- Chapter 7: Intra-Africa Trade in Services and the AFCFTA.- Chapter 8: Trading African Art at Sotheby's: a Story Told by Lions or Hunters?.- Part 2: Great powers summits on cooperation with Africa.- Chapter 9: Diplomacy on regional and inter-regional Levels: What works, why and for whom?.- Chapter 10: The EU and Turkey's Development Aid Policies in Sub-Saharan Africa: Unpacking the Similarities and Differences.- Chapter 11: TICAD and FOCAC Summit Diplomacy: Similarities and Differences.- Chapter 12: Beyond Summitry: The Role of Hard and Soft Power in Turkey's Africa Strategy.- Chapter 13: Decoding of Turkey's Last Two Decades in Africa.- Part 3: Healthcare cooperation and regional initiatives in Africa.- Chapter 14: Resource flows in D R Congo public health and healthcare in the Covid-19 pandemic.- Chapter 15: China in fight against COVID-19 and its consequences for Africa.- Chapter 16: EU efforts to increase the pandemic preparedness on a global scale before the COVID-19 outbreak.- Chapter 17: India-Africa: development cooperation in healthcare.- Part 4: Conflicts and Political Process Despite COVID Pandemics.- Chapter 18: Managing Conflict and political processes despite COVID-19.- Chapter 19: The African Union United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID): Mission Accomplished?.- Chapter 20: The EU Peacekeeping Strategy in Mali: Challenges and Prospects.- Chapter 21: Land Conflicts in Cote d'Ivoire in 1990's as a Premise for the Civil War.- Chapter 22: The Oromo Revolution: How Has Interethnic Relations Changed in Ethiopia?.- Chapter 23: Conflict Development and African Union Security Management Capacity Challenges.