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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”.