Supranational Institutions and Peacebuilding in Africa

The African Union and Regional Economic Communities
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-75352-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 236 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 499 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Peace, Conflict and Security in Africa

This book analyses the role of the African Union and regional economic communities in contributing to peacebuilding in Africa. Big and small conflicts rage across the African continent, and this book argues that the African Union and the five regional economic communities have the potential to greatly contribute to peace and peacebuilding In Africa.

Looking across the African Union and the five regional economic communities (the AMU, ECCAS, ECOWAS, IGAD, and SADC), the book considers in detail the organizations’ programmes, engagement, endeavours, success and failure of activities of peacebuilding in their respective regions. Overall, the book argues that an institutionalised and formalised relationship between the African Union and the regional economic communities would not only be decisive for the prospects for peace in the region but would also serve to strengthen the continent’s role on the global stage through asserting its agency, owning its agenda, and designing its own solutions and mechanisms for addressing problems.

Drawing together an international team of prominent experts, this book will be of interest to researchers, policymakers, NGOs, activists, and regional and international actors working on African politics, security, governance, and economics.

Zielgruppe

Academic and Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bereketeab, Redie

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Staatsbürgerkunde, Staatsbürgerschaft, Zivilgesellschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Historische & Regionale Volkskunde
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Kolonialismus, Imperialismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Diplomatie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Geopolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen Nationale und Internationale Sicherheits- und Verteidigungspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gewalt und Diskriminierung: Soziale Aspekte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Internationale Organisationen und Institutionen
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Friedens- und Konfliktforschung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Demokratie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Synthesising AU-RECs Linkages in the Context of Peacebuilding in Africa?  PART I: AU, RECs AND PEACEBUILDINGING IN AFRICA: THEORETICAL AND CONCEPTUAL DISCUSSION   AU and RECs: An Alchemy of Theoretical and Conceptual Debases on Peacebuilding Academic Knowledge Production on AU/RECs Peacebuilding  PART II: AMU AND PEACEBUILDING IN THE ARAB MAGHREB REGION  The Arab Maghreb Union: An Illusory Dream?  The Arab Maghreb Union Still Lagging Behind in Peacebuilding in Africa  Part III: ECCAS AND PEACEBUILDING IN THE CENTRAL AFRICAN REGION  Assessing ECCAS’s Peacebuilding Initiative in the Central African Sub-Region: From Where to Where  ECCAS in Peacebuilding in Central Africa  PART IV: ECOWAS AND PEACEBUILDING IN THE WEST AFRICAN REGION  ECOWAS and Peacebuilding in the West African Region  Democracy as a Peacebuilding Tool in West Africa: In Search of Holistic ECOWAS Response to Coup Resurgence  PART V: IGAD AND PEACEBUILDING IN THE GREATER HORN REGION  The Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD) in Peacebuilding in the Horn of Africa: Programmes, Opportunities, Challenges and Prospects  Peacebuilding in IGAD Region: Between Policy and Practice  PART VI: SADC AND PEACEBUILDING IN SOUTHERN AFRICAN REGION  SADC and Peacebuilding in the Southern African Region  Towards an Integrative Regional Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding Infrastructure in the SADC Region: A Policy Proposition

Über Autor(innen)

Redie Bereketeab, PhD, is associate professor of sociology. Currently he works as senior researcher at the Nordica Africa Institute. He run a research project on conflict and state building in the Horn of Africa.  His latest publications include National Liberation Movements as Government in Africa (2019), Alternatives to Neoliberal Peacebuilding and Statebuilding in Africa (2021), Historical Sociology of Nation formation in the Horn of Africa (2023), Recent Developments in Peace and Security in the Horn of Africa (2023). His research interests expand across political sociology, development sociology, African studies, conflict, peacebuilding, regional integration, RECs, nation formation, state formation. ORCID: 0000-0002-4378-1893