A new research agenda for Africa’s international relations
本文梳理非洲国际关系学术研究现状，主张从防御性知识生产转向进攻性研究，围绕五个主题构建新议程，以摆脱欧美主导叙事，发展适合非洲的分析框架。
ABSTRACT The article takes stock of the eclectic Africa’s International Relations (AIR) scholarship with a view to setting a new research agenda for this vibrant subfield of International Relations (IR). It argues that the AIR community has taken a defensive approach to knowledge production and dissemination. It calls on AIR scholars to shift the emphasis from reactionary scholarship to an offensive knowledge production and dissemination by building research around five key themes. The article shows that a research agenda in the five areas can give epistemic freedom to AIR scholars, contribute to freeing IR from Euro-American metanarratives, and ultimately put AIR scholars in a position to develop analytical frameworks capable of capturing nuances and complexities of international life in Africa.