Connecting Africa and Asia

By 2100, more than 80 per cent of the world's population is expected to live in Afrasia (Africa and Asia). This book draws lessons from history, provides a new cognitive map of the world, and discusses multiple challenges global citizens will face in the age of Afrasia, an emerging macro-region.

Yoichi Mine is Professor at the Graduate School of Global Studies, Doshisha University, Japan, and Visiting Fellow at JICA Ogata Sadako Research Institute for Peace and Development. His research interests include human security, global history, and African studies. His English publications include several co-edited volumes: Migration and Agency: Afro-Asian Encounters (Palgrave), Preventing Violent Conflict in Africa: Inequalities, Perceptions and Institutions (Palgrave), Human Security Norms in East Asia (Palgrave), and Human Security and Cross-Border Cooperation in East Asia (Palgrave). He is among the founders of the Japan Association for Human Security Studies and the Japan Society for Afrasian Studies.