Malte Brosig - Cooperative Peacekeeping in Africa: Exploring Regime Complexity

This book examines peacekeeping in Africa, exploring how the various actors are forming an African security regime complex.

The changing dynamics of peacekeeping in todays world have encouraged a more cooperative approach between international and regional actors. At the centre of this book is the analysis of how an African security regime complex could emerge in the area of cooperative peacekeeping. The African regime complex on peacekeeping includes a number of organ-isations at the regional and sub-regional African level, as well as global institutions such as the UN, interregional partners such as the EU and individual lead nations. This book is the first in providing a systematic overview of peacekeeping doctrines, capacities and deployments of these key actors and single lead states. Theoretically, the book links up with regime complexity scholarship but connects it with dependency theory. Here inter-institutional relations are conceptualised as acts of resource exchange. The book explores how primarily international organisations are partnering by exchanging resources. Empirically, the study analyses the phenomenon of regime complexity in three prominent African crises covering Eastern Africa (Somalia), Central Africa (Central African Republic) and Western Africa (Mali).

This book will be of much interest to students of peacekeeping, international organisations, African politics, security studies and IR in general.

Malte Brosig is Associate Professor in International Relations at the Department of International Relations at the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.

This series examines all aspects of peacekeeping, from the political, operational and legal dimensions to the developmental and humanitarian issues that must be dealt with by all those involved with peacekeeping in the world today.

Beyond the Emergency

Development within UN peace missions

Edited by Jeremy Ginifer

The UN, Peace and Force

Edited by Michael Pugh

Mediating in Cyprus

The Cypriot communities and the United Nations

Oliver P. Richmond

Peacekeeping and the UN Agencies

Edited by Jim Whitman

Peacekeeping and Public Information

Caught in the crossfire

Ingrid A. Lehmann

The Evolution of US Peacekeeping Policy under Clinton

A fairweather friend?

Michael G. MacKinnon

Peacebuilding and Police Reform

Edited by Tor Tanke Holm and Espen Barth Eide

Peacekeeping and Conflict Resolution

Edited by Tom Woodhouse and Oliver Ramsbotham

Managing Armed Conflicts in the 21st Century

Edited by Adekeye Adebajo and Chandra Lekha Sriram

Women and International Peacekeeping

Edited by Louise Olsson and Torunn L. Tryggestad

Recovering from Civil Conflict

Reconciliation, peace and development

Edited by Edward Newman and Albrecht Schnabel

Mitigating Conflict

The role of NGOs

Edited by Henry F. Carey and Oliver P. Richmond

Ireland and International Peacekeeping 19602000

A study of Irish motivation
Katsumi Ishizuka

Peace Operations after 11 September 2001

Edited by Thierry Tardy

Confronting Past Human Rights Violations

Justice vs peace in times of transition
Chandra Lekha Sriram

The National Politics of Peacekeeping in the Post-Cold War Era

Edited by David S. Sorensen and Pia Christina Wood

A UN Legion

Between utopia and reality

Stephen Kinloch-Pichat

United Nations Peacekeeping in the Post-Cold War Era

John Terence ONeill and Nicholas Rees

The Military and Negotiation

The role of the soldierdiplomat
Deborah Goodwin

NATO and Peace Support Operations 19911999

Policies and doctrines

Henning-A. Frantzen

International Sanctions

Between words and wars in the global system

Edited by Peter Wallensteen and Carina Staibano

Nordic Approaches to Peace Operations

A new model in the making?

Peter Viggo Jakobsen

Kosovo between War and Peace

Nationalism, peacebuilding and international trusteeship

Edited by Tonny Brems Knudsen and Carsten Bagge Laustsen

Clinton, Peacekeeping and Humanitarian Interventionism

Rise and fall of a policy

Leonie G. Murray

Political Ethics and the United Nations

Dag Hammarskjld as Secretary-General

Manuel Frhlich

Statebuilding and Justice Reform

Post-conflict reconstruction in Afghanistan

Matteo Tondini

Rethinking the Liberal Peace

External models and local alternatives

Edited by Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh

Peace Operations and Organized Crime

Enemies or allies?

Edited by James Cockayne and Adam Lupel

Corruption and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding

Selling the peace?

Edited by Christine Cheng and Dominik Zaum

South America and Peace Operations

Coming of age

Edited by Kai Michael Kenkel

Peace Operations in the Francophone World

Global governance meets post-colonialism

Edited by Bruno Charbonneau and Tony Chafer

Cooperative Peacekeeping in Africa

Exploring regime complexity

Malte Brosig

In Africa, partnership peacekeeping has become the norm. But how do the complex set of contemporary inter-institutional relationships really work? Malte Brosigs book offers a useful conceptual framework for explaining how peacekeeping works by focusing on the different ways in which resources are transferred across and within international institutions. Case study chapters focused on key theatres (Somalia, Mali, and CAR) and key bilateral actors (Nigeria, South Africa, France, UK, US, and China) usefully illustrate the complex interdependence shaping international responses to Africas recent war zones.

Paul D. Williams, George Washington University, USA

Malte Brosigs Cooperative Peacekeeping in Africa offers one of the few analyses that is grounded in broader conceptual debates about inter-organizational capacities and cooperation. Equally significant, it provides a comparative perspective of peacekeeping experiences in some of the core crises of the last decades. It fills a major gap in the literature on peacekeeping in Africa.

Gilbert M. Khadiagala, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

Contemporary peace operations in Africa are characterised by complex and highly interdependent multiparty relationships. In this book Malte Brosig analyses the emergence of cooperative peacekeeping in Somalia, the Central African Republic and Mali. This book is an important contribution to our understanding of peacekeeping, cooperation and international organisations.

Cedric de Coning, Norwegian Institute of
International Affairs (NUPI), Norway