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The empire's new clothes: Africa, liberal interventionism and contemporary world order

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This paper interrogates the current upsurge in humanitarian interventionism in Africa. Disagreeing with those who see it in altruistic terms, the paper argues that the increasing militarisation of world politics seen in the routinisation of interventions in Africa is a function of a neo-imperialist posture driven by a Western will to domination and desire to restructure the world in line with the ideological preferences of liberalism as the dominant ideological formation of contemporary imperialism. Supported by power-knowledge regimes of Western intellectual production, which provide the legitimating frame and moral justification for imperial interventions, this Western will to domination disguises its violent imperialist pretensions under the cloak of benevolence and altruism.

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  • Zubairu Wai, 2014. "The empire's new clothes: Africa, liberal interventionism and contemporary world order," Review of African Political Economy, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 41(142), pages 483-499, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:revape:v:41:y:2014:i:142:p:483-499
    DOI: 10.1080/03056244.2014.928278
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    1. Nicholas Idris Erameh, 2018. "Cosmopolitanism, Responsibility to Protect and the Libya Intervention: A Reassessment," India Quarterly: A Journal of International Affairs, , vol. 74(4), pages 383-401, December.
    2. Gruber, Aaron, 2023. "Navigating a world of constraints: Developmentalism, industrial policy, and the limits to structural transformation in Ethiopia," ÖFSE-Forum, Austrian Foundation for Development Research (ÖFSE), volume 87, number 287748.

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