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Lina Benabdallah
@LBenabdallah
Associate Prof, author of #ShapingtheFutureofPower, interested in a medley of things incl. 南南合作, IR, Global South, #ChinaAfrica, nostalgia, and relationality.
Aug 5, 2022 • 24 tweets • 16 min read
As colleagues are preparing their syllabi for the new semester, I want to start a thread sharing polisci books published during the pandemic (especially by early career scholars) to help promote them. If you can help, DM me the title of your book and I’ll add it to the thread 1/ Also please indicate if you’d be willing to hop on a zoom meeting to discuss it with the class when assigned. We open the thread with Counterterrorism Strategies in #Egypt by Ahmed M. Abozaid (@AbozaidahmedM) 2/ Image
Dec 1, 2021 • 10 tweets • 6 min read
Here’s a table of content of the Dakar #FOCAC #ActionPlan (fr edition). Quick thread on the main announcements (yes it’s 3 am and I am totally jet lagged just from being on FOCAC time zone to follow virtually). Lots of exchange programs, trainings, visits on the menu 1/ In terms of Peace and Security, #China will offer trainings on maritime security, military medicine, continue training of peacekeeping personnel, will hold another Peace and Security Forum, and will have exchanges on counterterrorism, rule of law, and other similar issues. 3/
Nov 29, 2021 • 4 tweets • 4 min read
Xi Jinping addressing #FOCAC2021 inviting more initiatives to share experience on poverty reduction, digital infrastructure, youth exchanges, capacity building, clean energy investments,#FOCAC #Dakar #SinoAfrica Image Xi Jinping addressing #FOCAC2021 #China will provide 1 billion doses (600 million free doses, 400 million joint-production), 10 medical projects, send 1000 medical personnel #Dakar #SinoAfrica
Aug 23, 2019 • 4 tweets • 6 min read
The #China/ #SinoAfrica containment narrative is not useful for analyzing #Japan-#Africa development relations. Using a tug-of-war language to paint a🇨🇳-🇯🇵 standoff shows how much the🇺🇸- 🇨🇳rivalry colors #Africa's partnerships. 🇯🇵's #TICAD7 is a very different product from #FOCAC #TICAD started in 1993, many moons before #FOCAC. #Japan did get inspired by #China's forum model and changed from meeting every 5 years to now every 3. TICAD also recently started alternating between #Japan and an #Africa|n hosts (like FOCAC) but
Apr 7, 2019 • 7 tweets • 5 min read
Can't believe my eyes seeing de Tocqueville quoted re: prospects of democratic transition in #Algeria. The guy literally wrote memos in support of French brutal torture system in #Algeria. It's already a violence that he became the democracy theorist in the US but this is a farce On #epistemic violences and theorizing from the #GlobalSouth, think about how Alexis de Tocqueville, before becoming the father figure of democracy in the U.S. was a war-strategist for colonial #France in #Algeria. I'll throw in a few bonus quotes from his "Essay on #Algeria":