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The African Union

Author : Samuel M. Makinda,F. Wafula Okumu,David Mickler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317420286

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The African Union by Samuel M. Makinda,F. Wafula Okumu,David Mickler Pdf

Fully revised and updated, the second edition of The African Union continues to offer the most comprehensive overview of the work of the African Union (AU), with special emphasis on its capacity to meet the challenges of building and sustaining governance institutions and security mechanisms. This new edition: Re-examines the African Union at the historic moment of the golden jubilee of the OAU, its predecessor. It examines the AU’s efforts in its first decade, points out some of the organization’s weaknesses, and posits options for addressing more effectively the challenges of peace, security, and governance in coming years. Critically reviews several arrangements and initiatives, including the African Peace and Security Architecture (APSA) and the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM). Analyses performance of key institutions and programs of the AU, including the Commission, the Executive Council, the Assembly, and the Pan-African Parliament (PAP) as well as the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD). Discusses how far instability and insecurity on the continent are consequences of bad governance and the lack of strategic leadership. Considers how the absence of a clearly articulated ideology may undermine the implementation of the AU Agenda. In addition to offering revised and updated chapters throughout, this edition includes one new chapter, which critically discusses the AU’s new international partnerships. With an emphasis on the current work of the AU and a view to the future of the organization, this book is essential reading for students and scholars researching African Politics and international organizations.

Yearbook on the African Union Volume 1 (2020)

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789004498914

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Yearbook on the African Union Volume 1 (2020) by Anonim Pdf

This is the first edition of the Yearbook on the African Union. It is first and foremost an academic project that will provide in-depth evaluation and analysis of the institution, its processes, and its engagements.

The African Union and African Agency in International Politics

Author : Tshepo Gwatiwa
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030878054

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The African Union and African Agency in International Politics by Tshepo Gwatiwa Pdf

This book examines the role of the African Union in relation to African agency in international politics. It examines the manner and extent to which the African Union exercises two forms of agency—shirking and slippage—in its strategic and collaborative partnerships. The author focuses on four major AU partnerships with the European Union, NATO, the United Nations and US AFRICOM. The books examines African agency in each partnership by exploring the politics and dynamics of each partnership in different aspects: the multilevel engagement, institutionalization, resource contribution and disbursement, as well as preference linkage. It specifically does that by examining African ownership and leadership in all of these aspects. The book highlights the role of agency slack as a survival strategy to escape from the AU’s subaltern position in international politics. It designates the partnership with the European Union as emblematic of African agency; while the others exhibit different forms of agency slack. Partnerships with NATO and the United Nations exhibit shirking, while that with the US AFRICOM exhibits slippage.

The African Union

Author : Ambassador Omar Alieu Touray
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781442268982

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The African Union by Ambassador Omar Alieu Touray Pdf

The book shows that integration is an intergovernmental process that involves the formation and pursuit of preferences, which are pursued through an aggregation of interests and institutions designed to maximize member states’ utility. It also shows how the African Union evolved and keeps evolving in terms of dealing with state sovereignty issues.

The African Union and Its Institutions

Author : John Akokpari,Angela Ndinga-Muvumba,Timothy Murithi
Publisher : Jacana Media
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015077676669

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The African Union and Its Institutions by John Akokpari,Angela Ndinga-Muvumba,Timothy Murithi Pdf

Written by eminent scholars on Africa and practitioners who have worked in or with the African Union (AU), this report brings together the analysis and research of 17 largely Pan-African scholars, policymakers, practitioners, and civil society representatives. A particularly timely and welcome addition to the pioneering literature about this young and potentially powerful institution, this analysis presents a positive but realistic picture of the AU while diagnosing several key challenges, including Africa’s security and governance problems.

The Emergent African Union Law

Author : Olufemi Amao,Michèle Olivier,Konstantinos D. Magliveras
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-07
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780192606778

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The Emergent African Union Law by Olufemi Amao,Michèle Olivier,Konstantinos D. Magliveras Pdf

This book is a groundbreaking study of the emergence of a unique African Union legal system, with contributions from a diverse collection of scholars and practitioners. It highlights how law stands at the heart of the successful regional integration effort in Africa and explores, among either issues, the extent to which African Union law is having an impact on domestic laws. This trend has been particularly noticeable in the area of human rights, the rule of law, democratic principles, and aspects of constitutional law. Furthermore, the book examines how the African Union is engendering new norms from its legal order, such as the non-indifference norm, the norm on unconstitutional change of government, free trade, free movement of people, economic regulation, and democratic constitutionalism. The book also analyses how the African Union legal order has led to the emergence of a continental-level judicial system. The quasi-judicial system put in place under the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights, and administered by the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights, is now complemented by the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights. This book contends that the continental-level judicial system is playing a crucial role in the moulding of emergent norms.

The African Union

Author : Timothy Murithi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351895156

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The African Union by Timothy Murithi Pdf

The African Union was established in July 2002 by African leaders, evolving from the Organization of African Unity (OAU). However the idea of the African Union can be traced to the Pan-Africanist movement. Timothy Murithi looks at the emergence of Pan-Africanism and how it was institutionalized through the Pan-African Congress and the OAU. He argues that the African Union represents the third phase of the institutionalization of Pan-Africanism. The book examines the limitations of the OAU and discusses whether the African Union can adopt a more interventionist stance in dealing with peacebuilding and development in Africa. The volume assesses the African Union's peace and security institutions and analyzes how it is beginning to collaborate with civil society. It takes a critical look at the Union's New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) and argues that Africa needs to adopt a developmental and governance agenda that will be much more responsive towards improving the well-being and livelihood of its peoples.

Peacebuilding in the African Union

Author : Abou Jeng
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781139560672

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Peacebuilding in the African Union by Abou Jeng Pdf

Particularly in the context of internal conflicts, international law is frequently unable to create and sustain frameworks for peace in Africa. In Peacebuilding in the African Union, Abou Jeng explores the factors which have prevented such steps forward in the interaction between the international legal order and postcolonial Africa. In the first work of its kind, Jeng considers whether these limitations necessitate recasting the existing conceptual structure and whether the Constitutive Act of the African Union provides exactly this opportunity through its integrated peace and security framework. Through the case studies of Burundi and Somalia, Jeng examines the structures and philosophy of the African Union and assesses the capacity of its practices in peacemaking. In so doing, this book will be of great practical value to scholars and legal practitioners alike.

The African Union

Author : Samuel M. Makinda,F. Wafula Okumu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2007-11-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134141166

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The African Union by Samuel M. Makinda,F. Wafula Okumu Pdf

A comprehensive examination of the work of the African Union (AU), with special emphasis on its capacity to meet the challenges of building and sustaining governance institutions and security mechanisms. Samuel Makinda and F. Wafula Okumu show how Africa and, in particular, the AU can effectively addressed the challenges of building and sustaining governance institutions and security mechanisms only if they have strategic leadership. Current debates on, and criticisms of, leadership in Africa are also analyzed as well as key options for overcoming the constraints that African leaders face. Core topics covered include: the colonial policies of the European powers the emergence of Pan-Africanism the creation of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) in 1963 the evolution of the OAU into the AU in 2002 the AU’s capacity to address poverty alleviation, conflict management and resolution, peacebuilding and humanitarian intervention.

The African Union's Africa

Author : Rita Kiki Edozie,Keith Gottschalk
Publisher : Michigan State University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1611861365

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The African Union's Africa by Rita Kiki Edozie,Keith Gottschalk Pdf

The African Union’s Africa: New Pan-African Initiatives in Global Governance examines the initiatives of the Pan-African global governance institution the African Union (AU) as the organization and its precursor commemorate their Jubilee as international actors. Taking a unique approach, the book seeks to explain the AU through a theoretical framework referred to as “the African Union phenomenon,” capturing the international organization’s efforts to transform the national politics of Africa as well as to globalize the practice of African politics. The authors examine Africa’s self-determined international norms and values such as Pan-Africanism, African Solutions to African Problems, Hybrid Democracy, Pax Africana, and the African Economic Community to demonstrate that Africa—the world’s least developed region—is composed of crucial values, institutions, agents, actors, and forces that are, through the AU, contributing to the advancement of contemporary global development. The book reveals how in the areas of cultural identity, democracy, security, and economic development Africans are infusing new politics, economics, and cultures into globalization representing the collective will and imprint of African agency, decisions, ideas, identities, practices, and contexts. Via a Pan-African vision, the AU is having both regional and global impact, generating exciting possibilities and complicated challenges.

Pan-African Education

Author : John K. Marah
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-09
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781351667593

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This book makes a critical contribution to the study of pan-Africanism and the education of African people for continental African citizenship. It is a unique endeavor in that it intersects the social history of pan-Africanism and the education of African people at a 'global' level and provides reflections from a multidisciplinary perspective on the urgency for continental pan-Africanism educational system in order to produce a more renascent African for the twenty-first century. Arguing that Pan-African Education is a mass-based educational system that will ‘craft’ a pan-African African personality, John Marah calls for integrated African school systems and curriculum changes conducive to larger social integration and institutionalized pan-African educational processes. The establishments of pan-African Teachers Colleges; intensive language institutes; pan-African literature courses; the training of African military and police forces; the use of music, sports, media and other extra-curricular activities (the hidden curriculum), etc.; are viewed as essential aspects in the socialization of a pan-African character or personality. Pan-African Education is an essential read for students and scholars of Pan-Africanism, African and Africana Studies, and Black Studies.

The African Union

Author : Tony Karbo,Timothy Murithi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Africa
ISBN : 1350988421

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The African Union by Tony Karbo,Timothy Murithi Pdf

"The African Union has been a major factor in establishing peace, security and development in Africa. Today, however, the intranational body is struggling in the midst of a perceived dissipating appetite for supporting continental institutions. Previously seen as the panacea to Africa's continuing problems with violence and corruption in society, under the slogan "African Solutions to African Problems", the African Union, this book argues, seems to have run its course".

The African Union

Author : Diedre L. Badejo
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781438102955

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The African Union by Diedre L. Badejo Pdf

Based in Ethiopia, the Africa Union, established in July 2002, is the successor to the Organization of African Unity, created in 1963. The AU aims include promoting democracy, human rights, and sustainable economic development across Africa, especially by increasing foreign investment through the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD).

The African Union: Legal and Institutional Framework

Author : Abdulqawi A. Yusuf,Fatsah Ouguergouz
Publisher : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-20
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004227729

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The African Union: Legal and Institutional Framework by Abdulqawi A. Yusuf,Fatsah Ouguergouz Pdf

This work is an introduction to the origins, law and institutions of the African Union (AU). It examines the evolution, structures, legal standards and operational activities of this Pan-African organization, which replaced the Organization of African Unity (OAU) 10 years ago. Although the AU came into being in 2001, so far there is no comprehensive work which addresses the institution, its organs and structures, the scope of its operations, its legal framework and the normative standards underpinning its objectives and functions or those underlying the conventions, charters and protocols it has enacted or inherited from its predecessor, the OAU. It is the aim of this work to fill that void. It has been conceived as a manual, and not as a scholarly treatise, so as to serve as a basic introduction to the institutional and legal framework of the AU and its affiliated organizations. It is meant to offer a concise and clear picture of the nature and workings of a continental institution aimed not only at promoting peace and unity in Africa but also at ensuring human security, development, human rights protection and good governance for the peoples of Africa.

Peacekeeping and the African Union

Author : Jude Cocodia
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351597579

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Peacekeeping and the African Union by Jude Cocodia Pdf

This book offers a detailed examination of the effectiveness of the peacekeeping operations of the African Union. Despite its growing reputation in peacekeeping and its status as the oldest continental peacekeeper, the performance of the African Union (AU) has hitherto not been assessed. This book fills that gap and analyses six case studies: Burundi, Comoros, Somalia, Mali, Darfur and the Central African Republic. From a methodological perspective it takes a problem-solving approach and utilises process tracing in its analysis, with its standard for success resting on achieving negative peace (the cessation of violence and provision of security). Theoretically, this study offers a comprehensive list of factors drawn from peace literature and field experience which influence the outcome of peacekeeping. Beyond the major issues, such as funding, international collaboration and mandate, this work also examines the impact of largely ignored factors such as force integrity and territory size. The book modifies the claim of peace literature on what matters for success and advocates the indispensability of domestic elite cooperation, local initiative and international political will. It recognises the necessity of factors such as lead state and force integrity for certain peace operations. In bringing these factors together, this study expands the peacekeeping debate on what matters for stability in conflict areas. This book will be of much interest to students of peacekeeping, African politics, war and conflict studies, and International Relations in general.