Research Catalog

Title

Towards an African peace and security regime : continental embeddedness, transnational linkages, strategic relevance / edited by Ulf Engel, João Gomes Porto.

Publication

• Farnham, Surrey, England : Ashgate Pub. Company, [2013]
• ©2013

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Details

Additional Authors

• Engel, Ulf
• Porto, João Gomes.

Description

xviii, 257 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

"'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"--provided by publisher.

Series Statement

Global security in a changing world

Uniform Title

Global security in a changing world.

Subject

• Southern African Development Community
• Economic Community of West African States
• Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa
• 2000-2099
• Conflict management > Africa
• Peace-building > Africa
• National security > Africa
• Conflict management / Africa
• National security / Africa
• Peace-building / Africa
• Security, International / Africa
• Friedenskonsolidierung
• Konfliktregelung
• Sicherheitspolitik
• Africa > Politics and government > 21st century
• Africa > Military policy
• Afrika

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The African Union and contested political order(s) / Antonia Witt -- From non-interference towards non-indifference: an ongoing paradigm shift within the African Union / Martin Welz -- The responsibility to protect by African organizations: a new trend in the cooperation between the UN and regional organizations / Rodrigo Tavares and Tânia Felício -- Africa's regional economic communities and the multi-level logic of security cooperation on the continent / Benedikt Franke -- Lessons learned and best practice from a troubled region: ECOWAS and the development of the ECOWAS standby force / Emma Birikorang -- The weight of history: prospects and challenges for the southern African development community / Anthoni van Nieuwkerk -- COMWARN: COMESA's distinctive contribution to the continental early warning system / João Gomes Porto -- Positive, negative, or ambiguous? Peace-keeping in the local security fabric / Andreas Mehler -- Regional security and intelligence cooperation in Africa: the potential contribution of the committee on intelligence and security services of Africa / Lauren Hutton -- Capacity building for the African peace and security architecture: dos and don'ts in program design / Markus Koerner and Mulugeta Gebrehiwot -- Challenges and opportunities for the AU's peace and security council: a critical reflection from a regime analytical perspective / Kwesi Aning.

ISBN

• 9780754676041 (hardback : alk. paper)
• 0754676048 (hardback : alk. paper)
• 9781409464129 (ePub ebook)
• 1409464121 (ePub ebook)
• 1409464113 (ebook)
• 9781409464112 (ebook)
• 9781409464112 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

• ^^2012033274
• 40022271222

OCLC

• 809559275
• SCSB-12546479

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library