Africa in the Discipline of International Relations: Introductory Notes and Provisions for a Sociology of Internationalist Knowledge

Recounting the history of the discipline of international relations in its relation to "Africa" as an object is an intellectual undertaking that allows us to address the principle of the construction of the African specificity & the changing ways of regarding it. The African specificity is in large part the work of international relations, constructed through a poor understanding of Africa; globalization, in revolutionizing traditional schools of thought, has reconfigured "Africa" in international relations. Adapted from the source document.