[ L’Afrique dans la géopolitique mondiale: De la coopération traditionnelle nord-sud aux nouvelles alliances stratégiques ]
Volume 68, Issue 2, September 2023, Pages 254–263
Dotsè Charles-Grégoire Alosse1 and YAFORGMAN N’Dibaguein2
1 Maître de Conférences en Philosophie politique, Université de Kara, Togo
2 Doctorant en Philosophie politique, Université de Lomé, Togo
Original language: French
Copyright © 2023 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Cooperation is the action of participating in a common work, the collaboration between actors, especially States, for a common goal. It is a policy of understanding and cultural, economic or scientific exchanges between States, and especially in the context of international relations of development aid to less developed nations from developed countries. North-South cooperation, which is the most traditional type of cooperation, occurs when a developed country provides economic or other support to a less developed country, particularly in the context of development programmes. This cooperation is valued differently because of its effectiveness. Often marked by hegemonic considerations, North-South cooperation has a lead in the wing in the current geopolitical context where, in Africa, new players are emerging. These partners loosen financial constraints and conditionalities, but they also increase the risks of debt reduction and weak coordination of development policies. It is necessary to distinguish between the geopolitical stakes of the multipolar world and the new actors of cooperation in Africa in order to explore the perspectives that open to Africa in its cooperation with the world powers. The aim is to empower Africa with regard to predatory cooperation which, instead of emancipating it, plunges it further into dependence. Africa must define its priorities in all forms of cooperation, whether traditional or new.
Author Keywords: Africa, cooperation, development, geopolitics, partnership.
Volume 68, Issue 2, September 2023, Pages 254–263
Dotsè Charles-Grégoire Alosse1 and YAFORGMAN N’Dibaguein2
1 Maître de Conférences en Philosophie politique, Université de Kara, Togo
2 Doctorant en Philosophie politique, Université de Lomé, Togo
Original language: French
Copyright © 2023 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
Cooperation is the action of participating in a common work, the collaboration between actors, especially States, for a common goal. It is a policy of understanding and cultural, economic or scientific exchanges between States, and especially in the context of international relations of development aid to less developed nations from developed countries. North-South cooperation, which is the most traditional type of cooperation, occurs when a developed country provides economic or other support to a less developed country, particularly in the context of development programmes. This cooperation is valued differently because of its effectiveness. Often marked by hegemonic considerations, North-South cooperation has a lead in the wing in the current geopolitical context where, in Africa, new players are emerging. These partners loosen financial constraints and conditionalities, but they also increase the risks of debt reduction and weak coordination of development policies. It is necessary to distinguish between the geopolitical stakes of the multipolar world and the new actors of cooperation in Africa in order to explore the perspectives that open to Africa in its cooperation with the world powers. The aim is to empower Africa with regard to predatory cooperation which, instead of emancipating it, plunges it further into dependence. Africa must define its priorities in all forms of cooperation, whether traditional or new.
Author Keywords: Africa, cooperation, development, geopolitics, partnership.
Abstract: (french)
La coopération est l’action de participer à une œuvre commune, la collaboration entre des acteurs, notamment des États, pour un but commun. Il s’agit d’une politique d’entente et d’échanges culturels, économiques ou scientifiques entre États, et spécialement dans le cadre des relations internationales de l’aide au développement aux nations moins développées de la part des pays développés. La coopération Nord-Sud, qui est le type de coopération le plus traditionnel, intervient lorsqu’un pays développé soutient économiquement ou sous une autre forme, un pays moins développé, notamment dans le cadre des programmes de développement. Cette coopération est différemment appréciée de par son efficacité. Souvent empreinte de considérations hégémoniques, la coopération Nord-Sud a du plomb dans l’aile dans le contexte géopolitique actuel où, en Afrique, de nouveaux acteurs émergent. Ces partenaires desserrent la contrainte financière et les conditionnalités, mais ils accroissent aussi les risques de ré-endettement et de faiblesse de la coordination des politiques de développement. Il convient de distinguer les enjeux géopolitiques du monde multipolaire puis les nouveaux acteurs de la coopération en Afrique afin d’explorer les perspectives qui s’ouvrent à l’Afrique dans sa coopération avec les puissances mondiales. L’objectif visé est d’autonomiser l’Afrique vis-à-vis des coopérations prédatrices qui, au lieu de l’émanciper, la plonge davantage dans la dépendance. L’Afrique doit définir ses priorités dans toutes les formes de coopérations qu’elles soient traditionnelles ou nouvelles.
Author Keywords: Afrique, coopération, développement, géopolitique, partenariat.
How to Cite this Article
Dotsè Charles-Grégoire Alosse and YAFORGMAN N’Dibaguein, “Africa in global geopolitics: From traditional north-south cooperation to new strategic alliances,” International Journal of Innovation and Scientific Research, vol. 68, no. 2, pp. 254–263, September 2023.
