A more encompassing understanding of the African-European relationship

The Africa-Europe cooperation is already and will necessarily be based on multistakeholder interaction. The book looks at this relationship by focusing on a crucial node of interaction which is underexamined and yet of great importance: The plurality of socio-economic and political interaction underpinning the relationship between Africa and Europe.1 In particular, it aims to identity patterns of cooperation and recurrent obstacles in African-European multistakeholder dynamics. This book studies the ongoing dynamics between the two continents by adopting a pluralist understanding of international relations which encompasses non-state actors as well as states. Traditionally the focus of the studies on Africa and Europe has been almost entirely put on government-to-government interaction. The current reality is far more complex and needs to be analysed with the right lenses in order to be fully understood.