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Author: Solomon Hailu
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Published: 2012
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780761857181
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe collective security system has been a problem in developing regions, particularly Africa. Western powers have less interest in sharing responsibility and there seems to be no alternative but that collective security should rely heavily on Africans themselves under the auspices of the newly established African Union (AU).
Author: Ulf Engel
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9780754676058
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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: Augusto Lopez-Claros
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-01-23
Total Pages: 561
ISBN-13: 1108476961
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIdentifies the major weaknesses in the current United Nations system and proposes fundamental reforms to address each. This title is also available as Open Access.
Author: Dr Laurie Nathan
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2013-04-28
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 1409476677
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExploring 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: Kristiana Powell
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Published: 2005
Total Pages: 104
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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: Gilbert M. Khadiagala
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9781555879662
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis treatment of the relationship between domestic and international politics analyzes efforts by African states to manage their external relations amid shifts in the internal, regional, and global environments. The study traverses the continent, identifying patterns of change, examining constraints, and giving attention to the processes that influence policy outcomes. Contributors include scholars of political science, international relations, African studies, and conflict analysis. c. Book News Inc.
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Published: 2014
Total Pages: 183
ISBN-13: 9789994497621
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Claire Metelits
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2016-10-12
Total Pages: 157
ISBN-13: 1442239565
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSecurity in Africa: A Critical Approach to Western Indicators of Threat questions the dominant Western narrative of security threats in Africa. Based on an analysis traditional security studies and Western security policy, it argues that commonly used indicators are based on mainstream security studies and provide only circumscribed analyses of threats to international security. By assessing the origins of this traditional approach to security and problematizing failed states, political instability, Muslim populations, and poverty among others, it makes the case for a critical approach to framing security challenges in Africa.
Author: Jonathan Fisher
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2022-02-03
Total Pages: 259
ISBN-13: 1108499376
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn examination of how peacekeeping is woven into national, regional and international politics in Africa, and its consequences.
Author: Cedric De Coning
Publisher: Zed Books Ltd.
Published: 2016-03-15
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 1783607114
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFacing threats ranging from Islamist insurgencies to the Ebola pandemic, African regional actors are playing an increasingly vital role in safeguarding peace and stability across the continent. But while the African Union has demonstrated its ability to deploy forces on short notice and in difficult circumstances, the challenges posed by increasingly complex conflict zones have revealed a widening divide between the theory and practice of peacekeeping. With the AU's African Standby Force becoming fully operational in 2016, this timely and much-needed work argues that responding to these challenges will require a new and distinctively African model of peacekeeping, as well as a radical revision of the current African security framework. The first book to provide a comprehensive overview and analysis of African peace operations, The Future of African Peace Operations gives a long overdue assessment of the ways in which peacekeeping on the continent has evolved over the past decade. It will be a vital resource for policy makers, researchers and all those seeking solutions and insights into the immense security challenges which Africa is facing today.
