Call for Paper for Edited Book: Asia and Africa: Partners in Progress

Call for Paper for Edited Book
Last date for submission: 31 July 2015

Asia and Africa: Partners in Progress

Edited by

Suresh Kumar and Faisal Ahmed

Asia and Africa are connected through Mediterranean Sea, Red Sea, Gulf of Aden, Gulf of Oman, Persian Gulf and the Indian Ocean. The economic history of colonialism resulted into divided boundaries and intense social stratification. But the two continents have learnt to live together by dint of their political cooperation, economic engagements and most importantly, the shared cultural beliefs and value systems. This is evident in the cooperation in issues as significant as agriculture, infrastructure, food security, oil and gas, and political and cultural cooperation, amongst others.

Political issues (e.g. unresolved border issues, terrorism, etc.); socio-economic challenges (e.g. poverty, illiteracy, child and maternal health, poor infrastructure etc.); and, governance dilemmas (e.g. poor progress in fulfillment of MDGs, democracy and development, economic slowdown etc.) are becoming deterrents to cooperation and development. The recent Asian African Summit held in April 2015 in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta, marking the 60th anniversary of the Bandung Conference, called for a ‘Ten Principles’ of cooperation in its communiqué.

The discourses, both on policy and practice, have revealed that it is the century of the global South to strengthen political, economic and social cooperation, and to create and maintain peace and prosperity through mutual interactions. Asia and Africa, therefore, must share the resources, technology, human resource, development assistance, infrastructural funding, and above all, a shared vision for global growth.

Such engagements will help sustain livelihoods in days to come.

Themes: Given this backdrop, we are coming out with an edited book on “Asia and Africa: Partners in Progress” by December 2015. The book aims to contribute to contemporary and pragmatic discourse on the theme and would be useful for academics, researchers, Embassies, think tanks, policy makers, and the corporate world. We, therefore, solicit your scholarly articles to be incorporated in this edited volume as a chapter.

The manuscript may be based on a theme/ sub-theme including, but not limited to the following, in context of historical, political, economic, social, cultural, governance, and multilateral cooperation:

1. State Building and Democratic System
2. State, Culture, Ethnicity and Society
3. Issues of Border Demarcation
4. UNO and Collection of Small Arms Weapons
5. International Trade, Law and Development
6. Agriculture Development & Food Security
7. Energy Security, Oil & Gas
8. Infrastructure Development
9. Learning through ICT
10. E-Governance
11. Human Rights and Development
12. Millennium Development Goals
13. Philosophy and Practice of Regional Integration
14. International Terrorism
15. Climate Change
16. Restructure of Security Council
17. South-South Cooperation
18. India-China-Korea-Japan-Africa Relations
19. Maritime Security
20. Issues relevant to African integration and Asian integration

Manuscript Submission Guidelines

Kindly follow the following guidelines for submitting your manuscript:

1. Only conceptual/theoretical manuscripts are solicited
2. Abstract of the paper should not exceed 150 words
3. The length of the manuscript should not be less than 7,000 words (excluding references)
4. The first page should contain the title of the manuscript and the name, institutional affiliation, correspondence address, contact no. (preferably mobile no.), and email of all author(s)
5. All notes/explanatory notes should be placed as footnotes and not endnotes
6. Only the references used in the text of the paper should be mentioned at the end
7. Tables and Figures should be placed within text and not at the end and be numbered as Table 1, Figure 1, etc.
8. Other specifications include: Font: Times New Roman, font size: 12, line spacing: single, format: MS Word (.doc or .docx)
9. The manuscript should be submitted to Dr. Suresh Kumar([email protected]) with a CC to Dr. Faisal Ahmed ([email protected])
10. The last date for submission of manuscript is 31 July 2014.

About the Editors

Suresh Kumar, Ph.D., is Associate Professor, Department of African Studies, University of Delhi and Centre for African Studies, UGC. He is the Chief Editor of Africaindia.org (http://www.africaindia.org) and traveled widely in East Asia, Europe, South America and Africa for research and teaching assignments. He also deliberated his opinion on Decolonization in North Africa before the United Nations Organisation, New York in October 2012. He is active as member in the Africa Committee of Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and an executive member of Indo-Africa Chamber of Commerce in India (IACCI). About 125 articles have been published in different books, journals and newspapers. He has actively contributed his opinions on India and Africa in the different international media channels of BBC, Aljazeera (English), ABC (USA), Yomiuri Shinbun (Japan) and All India Radio.

Faisal Ahmed, Ph.D., is Associate Professor and Chairman of International Business Area at FORE School of Management, New Delhi. He has also taught at Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT) as a visiting faculty and has worked as Associate Director with CUTS International, a leading think tank on international trade and WTO issues. He has been consultant to United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (UNESCWA), Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (ASSOCHAM) and other institutions. He has also led projects supported by the Ministry of Commerce & Industry and Ministry of External Affairs, Govt. of India. He has traveled extensively and is frequently invited as an expert and panelist on international trade by various institutions, think tanks, NGOs and Embassy in India and abroad. His research and consulting areas include South-South cooperation, economic integration, least developed countries (LDCs), WTO issues, and trade & geopolitics. He has written several research papers, chapters in edited books, monographs (with ISBN) and articles. A case study written by him has also been published by the Richard IVEY publishing, Canada. Besides, his articles have also appeared in leading business dailies like The Financial Express, Business Standard and The Economic Times. His recent book is a textbook entitled Business Environment: Indian and Global Perspective published by Prentice-Hall of India (PHI).