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Human Security in Africa during the COVID-19 Pandemic and Sustainability of the EU-Africa Relationship System
European Studies. 2020. No. 16. P. 133-155.
Glaser M., Lomova A. A.
The article, using the example of the human security crisis in Africa and the EU caused by COVID-19, explores the likelihood of transformation of the entire EU-Africa relationship system. The key threats and challenges to the humanitarian security environment of African countries are examined, the example of its social subsystem detailed as the most complex and multifactorial. The internal and external risks for the EU are analysed in the implementation of the African vector of its foreign policy in a pandemic situation. It is argued that, despite the difficulties encountered for both sides, the development of the EU-Africa relationship system itself will not change its path: the system remains balanced and based on a pragmatic approach
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humanitarian
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English
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Bondarenko D. M., Вестник Российского фонда фундаментальных исследований. Гуманитарные и общественные науки 2014 № 4
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Ashgate, 2010
This volume examines the complex international system of the twenty first century from a variety of perspectives. Proceeding from critical theoretical perspectives and incorporating case studies, the chapters focus on broad trends as well as micro-realities of a Post-Westphalian international system. The process of transformation and change of the international system has been an ongoing ...
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Perth : African Studies Association of Australasia and the Pacific (AFSAAP), 2017
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М. : Институт Африки РАН, 2013
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Piskunova N., L. : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015
The number of conflicts in the world is increasing, as well as their intensity and fierceness. We see the trend of unfolding spiral of violence in the world and thus there is a pressing need to assess the underlying reasons of it. Challenges to a secure development of the world stem from political, economic and ...
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Балезин А. С., Davidson A. B., Voevodskiy A. et al., М. : Университет Дмитрия Пожарского, 2016
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Zelenev E., Озеров О., Международная жизнь 2019 № сентябрь С. 70-79
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Springer Publishing Company, 2018
This work explores essential debates on globalization and world-systems analysis. It begins with a review of theoretical insights from world-systems analysis and explains the evolution of its terminology. The book subsequently seeks to answer several important questions: When did globalization begin and what insights into contemporary globalization may be gained from older forms? How does ...
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Anastasia A. Banshchikova, Benyera E., Bondarenko D. M. et al., M. : -, 2019
Contributors to this volume discuss a variety of ways the African past (African history) influences the present-day of Africans on the continent and in diaspora: cultural (historical) memory as a factor of public (mass) consciousness; the impact of the historical past on contemporary political, social, and cultural processes in Africa and African diaspora.
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Костелянец С. В., Сидорова Г. М., Жерлицына Н. А., Московский государственный лингвистический университет, 2018
Предлагаемое учебное пособие посвящено современным проблемам безопасности на Африканском континенте. Авторы останавливаются на проблемах военно-политического характера в Египте, Алжире, Тунисе, Марокко, Судане, в также в треугольнике ДР Конго-Руанда-Уганда. Детальный анализ конкретных ситуаций в этих странах, различных по этническому составу, географическому положению, социально-экономическому развитию, дает представление о современных политических процессах на континенте в данных регионах. ...
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