The Global Demographic Change and Africa–Asia Relations: Beyond Big Power Summits

Yoichi Mine ()
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Yoichi Mine: Doshisha University

A chapter in Africa and the Formation of the New System of International Relations—Vol. II, 2023, pp 37-51 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract We may envision the state of the world in a time horizon not of several years but decades or even one century. In the world in 2100, it is projected that the populations of Africa and Asia each will account for 40% of the world’s population. When Africa’s birth rate stabilizes, the world’s population will get into equilibrium. Anticipating a situation where Africans and Asians constitute the absolute majority, this chapter proposes a frame of macro-region called Afrasia. From a perspective of democratic geopolitics, people pledge not to repeat the colonial rule within the region: Asian and African big powers should not behave as the Western empires did in the past. Japan initiated the Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD) process in 1993, while China launched a larger event, Forum on China–Africa Cooperation (FOCAC), in 2000. India and South Korea followed suit, and the United States and Russia also organized similar summits. An Afrasian developmental community may come into existence when the different summits of Asian powers and the African continent learn to cooperate in the spirit of the Bandung Conference. Russia, which straddles Eurasia, is expected to engage constructively in this process.

Keywords: Afrasia; African agency; Cultural triangulation; Demography; Geopolitics; Pan-Asianism; Population distribution; Summit diplomacy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-34041-3_3

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