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A ‘New Scramble for Africa’? Geostrategic competition, transnational dynamics and a new agenda for shared development

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Africa’s centrality in the strategic thinking of a variety of international actors is on the rise. As a result, Europe’s ambitions to build a solid partnership with Africa must be cast in an increasingly competitive environment, which redistributes costs and opportunities of inter-regional cooperation.

The shrinking influence of the former colonial-powers and the hesitations of the United States challenge the assumptions that framed African international relations in the past. Meanwhile, the rise of new actors forstering aggressive agendas and new modes of cooperation – China, of course, but also Russia, Turkey, the Gulf States and others – invite to update the intellectual toolkit through which we look at Africa’s relations with the rest of the world, including Europe.

This roundtable ambitions to update the terms of the debate by providing fresh perspectives based on state-of-the-art knowledge about the so-called “new scramble for Africa”.

Agenda

9h00-09h15

Opening remarks

Francesco Strazzari, Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies (SSSA), ERIS Research Group
Luigi Narbone, European University Institute (EUI), Middle East Directions Programme
Florence Gaub, European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS)

09h15-10h45

Brainstorming session: A ‘New Scramble for Africa’? Geostrategic competition, transnational dynamics and a new agenda for shared development

Chair:

Stefano Manservisi, Director-General of the European Commission's Directorate General for International Cooperation and Development (DEVCO)

Speakers:

Giovanni Faleg, Responsible for analysis and research on sub-Saharan Africa, European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS),Sub- saharan Africa desk
Mouhamadou Moustapha Ly, Economist, Policy Center for the New South

Speakers
Luigi Narbone
European University Institute (EUI), Middle East Directions Programme
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Florence Gaub
European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS)
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Stefano Manservisi
Director-General of the European Commission's Directorate General for International Cooperation and Development (DEVCO)
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Giovanni Faleg
Responsible for analysis and research on sub-Saharan Africa, European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS),Sub- saharan Africa desk
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Mouhamadou Moustapha Ly
Economist, African Department of the International Monetary Fund (IMF)
Currently economist within the African Department of the International Monetary Fund in Washington DC, where he works on East African economies on various macroeconomic policy subjects and surveillance, he is also an affiliate professor of economics at Mohamed-6 Polytechnic university in Rabat (Morocco). Prior to that, Mouhamadou was senior economist at the Policy Center for the New South in Rabat (Morocco) working on development related issues and regional integration in the African continent. Mouhamadou also spent several years as assistant professor at Gaston Berger university in Saint-Louis (Senegal) and a lecturer at Auvergne university (France) and City university (London). He also worked as research fellow at the African Center for Statistics in the United Nations Econo ...