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Periodical article | Leiden University catalogue | WorldCat |
Title: | Cooperation for Order in Africa |
Author: | McKay, Vernon |
Year: | 1966 |
Periodical: | Current History |
Volume: | 50 |
Period: | March |
Pages: | 129-134 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Africa |
Subjects: | OAU international organizations Politics and Government Inter-African Relations international relations |
Abstract: | The African statesmen have utilized four different international and regional mechanisms for maintaining security and order: the O.A.U., the United Nations, bilateral defense agreements with great powers, and bilateral arrangements between African states. After having touched upon the many general problems of the post-colonial era of transition and the inter-African conflicts the author examines the use the African leaders have made of these mechanisms. Africa's means of ensuring security and order remains ad hoc and unsystematic, with large gaps and discontinuities in its machinery. Moreover Africa's developing system of maintaining order and security will remain in constant danger of disruption until the racial crisis in Africa's deep South comes to an end. |