SS: “Why did Africa, which was long imagined as riven by ethnic & tribal conflict, preserve the multinational states it inherited from European colonial powers?” The continent’s surprising success is due to its history of multilateralism, Alden Young argues in this insightful piece. A multilateralism that grew out of Pan-African efforts of resistance against colonial powers. “Danger, however, lies in a new 21st-century great power competition,” he concludes.
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SS: “Why did Africa, which was long imagined as riven by ethnic & tribal conflict, preserve the multinational states it inherited from European colonial powers?” The continent’s surprising success is due to its history of multilateralism, Alden Young argues in this insightful piece. A multilateralism that grew out of Pan-African efforts of resistance against colonial powers. “Danger, however, lies in a new 21st-century great power competition,” he concludes.
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