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The New Cold War in Africa illuminates the intricate interplay of external influences and African prerogatives by analyzing the interests and activities of major powers like China, the United States, Russia, and the European Union in Africa – while simultaneously highlighting the agency of African leaders and actors in navigating and reshaping global competition to their advantage.
Combining theoretical insights with fieldwork-based case studies that bridge international relations and comparative politics, African development, political and economic geography, and security studies, this book offers a nuanced understanding of Africa’s dual role as a battleground for great power rivalry and as a transformative agent in reconfiguring global power dynamics.
Pádraig Carmody is Professor of Geography at Trinity College Dublin (Ireland) and a Senior Research Associate at University of Johannesburg (South Africa). His research centres on the political economy of globalization in Africa, and he has authored or co-authored eleven books and many journal articles. His most recent book is Transforming Education for Sustainable Development: Global Perspectives from Classroom to Practice, co-edited with Glenn Galloway, Karen Brown, Lucia Rodriguez and Larry Swatuk (2025). He is currently Chair of the Standing Committee on International Affairs of the Royal Irish Academy. He is a former Chair of the Development Studies Association of Ireland, former editor-in-chief of Geoforum, former editor of Irish Geography, and former associate editor of Transnational Corporations. He also sits on the boards of Political Geography, Politics & Development in Contemporary Africa, Geoforum, Irish Studies in International Affairs, Journal of the Tanzanian Geographical Association, and Hungarian Journal of African Studies.