AFRICAS NEW PEACE AND SECURITY ARCHITECTURE
Global Security in a Changing World
Series Editor: Professor Nana K. Poku, John Ferguson Professor,
Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford, UK
Globalisation is changing the world dramatically, and a very public debate is taking place about the form, extent and significance of these changes. At the centre of this debate lie conflicting claims about the forces and processes shaping security. As a result, notions of inequality, poverty and the cultural realm of identity politics have all surfaced along side terrorism, environmental changes and bio-medical weapons as essential features of the contemporary global political landscape. In this sense, the debate on globalisation calls for a fundamental shift from a status quo political reality to one that dislodges states as the primary referent, and instead sees states as a means and not the end to various security issues, ranging from individual security to international terrorism. More importantly, centred at the cognitive stage of thought, it is also a move towards conceiving the concept of insecurity in terms of change.
The series attempts to address this imbalance by encouraging a robust and multi-disciplinary assessment of the asymmetrical nature of globalisation. Scholarship is sought from areas such as: global governance, poverty and insecurity, development, civil society, religion, terrorism and globalisation.
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Robert Nalbandov
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Cocaine Trafficking in Latin America
EU and US Policy Responses
Sayaka Fukumi
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A Decade of Human Security
Global Governance and New Multilateralisms
Edited by Sandra J. MacLean, David R. Black and Timothy M. Shaw
ISBN 978-0-7546-4773-7
Non-Traditional Security in Asia
Dilemmas in Securitization
Edited by Mely Caballero-Anthony, Ralf Emmers and Amitav Acharya
ISBN 978-0-7546-4701-0
Africas New Peace and Security Architecture
Promoting Norms, Institutionalizing Solutions
Edited by
ULF ENGEL
University of Leipzig, Germany
JOO GOMES PORTO
University of Bradford, UK
First published 2010 by Ashgate Publishing
Published 2016 by Routledge
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Africas new peace and security architecture : promoting norms, institutionalizing solutions. -- (Global security in a changing world)
1. African Union. 2. Peace-building--Africa. 3. National security--Africa. 4. Africa--Politics and government-- 1960-
I. Series II. Engel, Ulf. III. Porto, Joo Gomes.
341.249-dc22
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Africas new peace and security architecture : promoting norms, institutionalizing solutions / edited by Ulf Engel and J. Gomes Porto.
p. cm. -- (Global security in a changing world)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-7546-7605-8 (hardback) -- ISBN 978-0-7546-7606-5 (pbk) -- ISBN 978-1-4094-0217-6 (ebook) 1. Conflict management--Africa.
2. Peace-building--Africa. 3. National security--Africa. 4. Africa--Politics and government--21st century. 5. Africa--Military policy. I. Engel, Ulf. II. Porto, Joo Gomes.
JZ5584.A35A38 2010
355.03306--dc22
2009040132
ISBN 9780754676058 (hbk)
ISBN 9780754676065 (pbk)
ISBN 9781315566115 (ebk)
Contents
Ulf Engel and Joo Gomes Porto
Fredrik Sderbaum and Bjrn Hettne
Klaas van Walraven
Kathryn Sturman and Assatou Hayatou
Tim Murithi and Charles Mwaura
El-Ghassim Wane, Charles Mwaura, Shewit Hailu, Simone Kopfmller, Doug Bond, Ulf Engel and Joo Gomes Porto
Jakkie Cilliers and Johann Pottgieter
Joo Gomes Porto and Ulf Engel
This publication is supported by
List of Figures
List of Tables
Notes on Contributors
The Editors
Professor Dr Ulf Engel teaches Politics in Africa at the Institute of African Studies, University of Leipzig (Germany). He is the Director of Studies of the Masters in African Studies and the European Masters in Global Studies as well as spokesperson for a PhD research training program on Critical Junctures of Globalization, which looks at the implication of the so-called spatial turn in the humanities and social sciences. Dr Engel holds a PhD degree in Political Science; following a habilitation at the University of Hamburg his venia legendi is in Political Science. He has published widely on Africas international relations.
Dr Joo Gomes Porto is a senior lecturer and director of undergraduate studies at the Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford (United Kingdom). In his previous capacity as head of the African Security Analysis Program at the Institute for Security Studies (ISS), South Africa, he managed a multidisciplinary team of researchers dedicated to the analysis and provision of policy options on conflict situations in Africa. Dr Gomes Porto holds a PhD degree in International Conflict Analysis and Resolution from the University of Kent at Canterbury.
The Contributors
Fredrik Sderbaum is Associate Professor of Peace and Development Research at the School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg (Sweden) and Senior Associate Research Fellow at the United Nations University-Comparative Regional Integration Studies (UNU-CRIS), Bruges (Belgium). Recent co-edited books include EU and the Global South (Lynne Rienner, forthcoming), Afro-regions: The Dynamics of Cross-Border Regionalism in Africa (Nordic Africa Institute, 2008), The EU as a Global Player: The Politics of Interregionalism (Routledge, 2006), The Political Economy of Regionalism: The Case of Southern Africa (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004), and Theories of New Regionalism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003).
Dr Bjrn Hettne is Professor Emeritus in Peace and Development Research at the School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg (Sweden). He has coordinated many international research programs and has a comprehensive record of publication, in fields such as South Asia, European studies, development theory, international political economy, and regionalism. His most recent publications are