Publication

This issue of AUSTRAL includes articles on France's influence compared to that of China in Francophone Africa; the role of emerging powers such as China, Brazil, India and Russia in Africa; the role of commercial security providers within African security sectors; asymmetric warfare; the link between Nigerian media's news agenda and national development; the Brazilian approach to developing a national army applied to the Democratic Republic of the Congo; South Africa's foreign policy in the post-Apartheid era; cooperation and conflict in Central Asia's oil and gas sector; the role of the United States in the Argentinean debt crisis in 2001; and Brazil's foreign policy under President Lula.