Towards An African Peace And Security Regime

Author : João Gomes Porto
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317009078

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Towards an African Peace and Security Regime by João Gomes Porto Pdf

Towards an African Peace and Security Regime: Continental embeddedness, transnational linkages, strategic relevance provides an informed and critical reflection on the adequacy of the emerging African Peace and Security Architecture (APSA) to the medium- and long-term challenges and opportunities of conflict prevention, management and resolution in Africa. Complementary to the editors’ Africa’s New Peace and Security Architecture: Implementing norms, institutionalising solutions (Ashgate 2010), this volume revolves around three main areas of focus: the continental ’embeddedness’ of norms, values and processes required for the gradual coming into shape of the African peace and security regime; its transnational linkages as well as the wider collective security environment; and the empirical analysis of the connections between the continental level and the regional economic communities with case-studies on ECOWAS, SADC and COMESA.

Author : Shannon L. Field
Publisher : Spotlight Poets
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105121604529

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Peace in Africa by Shannon L. Field Pdf

The future of Africa will, in large measure, be determined by its ability to manage a range of difficult security challenges.

Author : Kristiana Powell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123131943

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The African Union's Emerging Peace and Security Regime by Kristiana Powell Pdf

The notion of the "responsibility to protect" has made some progress in recent years, particularly in Africa. For example, the African Union's (AU) new peace and security agenda resonates with the prevention-reaction-rebuilding continuum outlined in the ICISS [International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty] report. This monograph draws on case studies of the AU and other international engagements in Burundi and Darfur, Sudan, to explore the opportunities and challenges operationalising the responsibility to protect in Africa.

Author : Ulf Engel,João Gomes Porto
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0754676056

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Africa's New Peace and Security Architecture by Ulf Engel,João Gomes Porto Pdf

This volume offers an informed and critical analysis of the operationalization and institutionalization of the peace and security architecture by the African Union and Africa's Regional Economic Communities (RECs). It examines the institutions that will carry the mandate forward, raises pertinent research questions for the successful operationalization of the architecture and debates the medium and long-term challenges to implementation.

Author : J. Gomes Porto
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317183990

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Africa's New Peace and Security Architecture by J. Gomes Porto Pdf

This volume offers an informed and critical analysis of the operationalization and institutionalization of the peace and security architecture by the African Union and Africa's Regional Economic Communities (RECs). In creating this architecture, the African Union and the RECs tread new ground with potentially significant consequences to the lives and livelihoods of millions of Africans who are affected by war and armed conflict. In-depth, critical chapters inform, clarify and provide key points for reflection on the architecture as a whole as well as on each of the structures currently under implementation. The volume examines the institutions that will carry the mandate forward, raises pertinent research questions for the successful operationalization of the architecture and debates the medium and long-term challenges to implementation. Students and researchers of African approaches to peace building, conflict resolution and regional security will benefit from the deep and critical engagement of issues covered in this volume by world renowned scholars and practitioners.

Author : Isiaka Badmus
Publisher : Springer
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137426611

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The African Union's Role in Peacekeeping by Isiaka Badmus Pdf

This study examines the African Union's peacekeeping role in managing African conflicts. Based on a qualitative research methodology, it analyses AU peace operations in Burundi and Somalia, and hybrid peacekeeping in Darfur, in order to identify the lessons learned and suggest how future outcomes may be improved.

Author : Dawn Nagar
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030835231

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Challenging the United Nations Peace and Security Agenda in Africa by Dawn Nagar Pdf

This book concerns the United Nations’ peacemaking, peacekeeping, peace-building, and post-conflict reconstruction efforts in Africa from 1960 to 2021. Succinctly discussed are historic and contemporary peace, security, and economic engagements within 18 countries spanning eight African regions: the Great Lakes; the Economic Community of Central African States; East Africa; the Horn of Africa; North Africa; the Sahel Region; West Africa; and Southern Africa. The book develops a neo-realist and imperialist critique that discusses how resource-rich, conflict-ridden states have become easy targets for capitalists, terrorists, and transnational crime, aligned to geostrategic parochial interests. Critically argued is that endogenous economic growth factors, if applied effectively, can achieve both peace and security, and meet the Global Sustainable Development Goals. Such efforts require constructive engagement with the five permanent members of the UN Security Council: China, France, Russia, the UK, and the US. However, the book contends that the cornerstone of multilateral engagement involves Africa’s 55 states and the African Union’s three major pillars: the Peace and Security Council, the African Governance Architecture, and the Post-Conflict Reconstruction Development Centre, which have the ability to move resource-rich, conflict-ridden states out of transnational crime and poverty. This book offers wide-ranging analyses of contemporary African diplomacy and a compelling critique of UN peacekeeping efforts in Africa, which resonates to scholars of international relations, peace and conflict studies, and African politics.

Author : Francis Onditi,Gilad Ben-Nun,Edmond M. Were,Israel Nyaburi Nyadera
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 527 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030708696

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Reimagining Security Communities by Francis Onditi,Gilad Ben-Nun,Edmond M. Were,Israel Nyaburi Nyadera Pdf

This book utilizes a systems thinking perspective to propose a holistic framework of analysis and practice for the regional security community (“RSC”) arrangement in Africa. In responding to the challenge of improving effectiveness of response to peace and security threats, African states tend to rely on ad hoc mechanisms. However, this approach has been mired with a myriad of structural limitations. The holistic framework reconfigures the traditional “RSC” into a simplified tool kit of “resources”, making this text book ideal for students and advanced researchers in international relations, and all those concerned with regional security and strategic studies.

Author : Malte Brosig
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317610342

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Cooperative Peacekeeping in Africa by Malte Brosig Pdf

This book examines peacekeeping in Africa, exploring how the various actors are forming an African security regime complex. The changing dynamics of peacekeeping in today’s world have encouraged a more cooperative approach between international and regional actors. At the centre of this book is the analysis of how an African security regime complex could emerge in the area of cooperative peacekeeping. The African regime complex on peacekeeping includes a number of organizations at the regional and sub-regional African level, as well as global institutions such as the UN, interregional partners like the EU and individual lead nations. This book is the first in providing a systematic overview of peacekeeping doctrines, capacities and deployments of these key actors and single lead states. Theoretically, the book links up with regime complexity scholarship but connects it with dependency theory. Here inter-institutional relations are conceptualised as acts of resource exchange. The book explores how primarily international organizations are partnering by exchanging resources. Empirically, the study analyses the phenomenon of regime complexity in three prominent African crises covering Eastern Africa (Somalia), Central African (Central African Republic) and Western Africa (Mali). This book will be of much interest to students of peacekeeping, international organisations, African politics, security studies and IR in general.

Author : Dr Laurie Nathan
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781409476672

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Community of Insecurity by Dr Laurie Nathan Pdf

Exploring the formation, evolution and effectiveness of the regional security arrangements of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), Nathan examines a number of vital and troubling questions: ∗ why has SADC struggled to establish a viable security regime? ∗ why has it been unable to engage in successful peacemaking?, and ∗ why has it defied the optimistic prognosis in the early 1990s that it would build a security community in Southern Africa? He argues that the answers to these questions lie in the absence of common values among member states, the weakness of these states and their unwillingness to surrender sovereignty to the regional organization. Paradoxically, the challenge of building a co-operative security regime lies more at the national level than at the regional level. The author's perspective is based on a unique mix of insider access, analytical rigour and accessible theory.

Author : Laurie Nathan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317163398

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Community of Insecurity by Laurie Nathan Pdf

Exploring the formation, evolution and effectiveness of the regional security arrangements of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), Nathan examines a number of vital and troubling questions: * why has SADC struggled to establish a viable security regime? * why has it been unable to engage in successful peacemaking?, and * why has it defied the optimistic prognosis in the early 1990s that it would build a security community in Southern Africa? He argues that the answers to these questions lie in the absence of common values among member states, the weakness of these states and their unwillingness to surrender sovereignty to the regional organization. Paradoxically, the challenge of building a co-operative security regime lies more at the national level than at the regional level. The author's perspective is based on a unique mix of insider access, analytical rigour and accessible theory.

Author : Ken Booth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Africa, Southern
ISBN : IND:30000035586076

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A Security Regime in Southern Africa by Ken Booth Pdf

Author : Adekeye Adebajo,Ismail O. D. Rashid
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1588262847

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West Africa's Security Challenges by Adekeye Adebajo,Ismail O. D. Rashid Pdf

Provides a context for understanding West Africa's security dilemmas, highlighting the link between failures of economic development, governance, and democratization on the one hand and military insecurity and violent conflicts on the other.

Author : Giovanni Cellamare,Ivan Ingravallo
Publisher : Springer
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-25
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783319722931

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Peace Maintenance in Africa by Giovanni Cellamare,Ivan Ingravallo Pdf

This book discusses the many legal aspects arising in relation to the maintenance of peace in Africa. Over the past twenty years, the majority of peace operations have been deployed on this continent, most of them established by the UN Security Council, sometimes in cooperation with the African Union and other African regional organizations, with contributions from the European Union and NATO. In some cases, the African Union has invoked its ‘primary responsibility for promoting peace, security and stability in Africa’, thus questioning the legal partnership between UN and regional organizations provided for in Chapter VIII of the UN Charter. The peace operations deployed in Africa have sometimes received a very robust mandate, which also includes the use of force and the protection of civilians’ human rights. The implementation of this broad mandate, which goes well beyond the traditional ‘peacekeeping approach’, requires considerable human and economic resources. Moreover, it raises several issues of concern with regard to the impact on the economic and political systems of the states in which the operations are deployed and, more generally, on the exercise of sovereignty over their territorial communities by these states. Offering an update for lawyers in practice and in academia interested in the field of international law, the book also contributes to the theoretical studies concerning the activities of international organizations, focusing on one of the most challenging issues to emerge in recent times.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9994497626

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The African Peace and Security Architecture by Anonim Pdf