Kenya’s Foreign Policy and Diplomacy

In the past decade or so the study of international relations and diplomacy has become popular in most universities in Kenya. Kenya’s Foreign Policy and Diplomacy: Evolution, Challenges and Opportunities
is a pioneering comprehensive textbook, which examines and evaluates
Kenya’s foreign policy since independence. The author analyses Kenya’s
formation as a state, its national interest, determinants of its foreign
policy and how the country has applied its diplomacy in response to
constantly changing dynamics in international relations to secure a role
and place for itself on the international stage. He describes the
successive stages of orientation of Kenya’s foreign policy as it
maintained good relations with its traditional development partners
during the Cold War, but found itself under the microscope by the same
partners after 1989. The author then discusses the foreign policy under
President Kibaki, which progressively re-orients Kenya to the East, and
President Uhuru and the ICC dilemma. He also discusses the influence of
domestic agenda in Kenya’s mediation role and emerging issues in
international relations namely: environmental diplomacy, terrorism, the
proliferation of small arms and light weapons. Students of international
relations and diplomacy, practicing and aspiring diplomats, scholars,
researchers, historians and the general reader will find this book
relevant.