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Title: | Special issue: regional organizations in African security |
Editors: | Söderbaum, Fredrik Tavares, Rodrigo |
Year: | 2009 |
Periodical: | African security (ISSN 1939-2206) |
Volume: | 2 |
Issue: | 2-3 |
Pages: | 69-217 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Africa |
Subjects: | African organizations peacekeeping operations regional security |
External link: | https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/uafs20/2/2-3 |
Abstract: | This special issue of 'African Security' on the role of regional organizations in African security first outlines the (dis)advantages of African (sub)regional organizations vis-ā-vis other security mechanisms, notably UN peace operations; the interactions between official and unofficial reasons to intervene; and whether security is actually protected by the peace activities carried out by regional organizations (Fredrik Söderbaum and Rodrigo Tavares). This is followed by papers on the AU's peace operations in general (Ulf Engel and João Gomes Porto), and in Burundi, Sudan, the Comoros and Somalia in particular (Paul D. Williams). The next four papers focus on subregional organizations that have been active in the security field: ECOWAS-initiated peacekeeping missions in Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea Bissau and Côte d'Ivoire (Cyril I. Obi); the role of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) in Sudan and Somalia (Tim Murithi); conflict management in the Central African Republic by the Force Multinationale en Centrafrique (FOMUC) and its successor, Mission de Consolidation de la Paix en Rébublique Centrafricaine (MICOPAX) (Angela Meyer); and the SADC interventions in Lesotho and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) (Maxi Schoeman and Marie Muller). The issue also incorporates a practitioner's perspective by João Gomes Cravinho, Portuguese Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, and one of the people involved in the design of the EU-African Union Strategic Partnership. The concluding article makes a comparative analysis of the role of regional organizations in African security (James J. Hentz, Fredrik Söderbaum, and Rodrigo Tavares). [ASC Leiden abstract] |