| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 278 pages) |
| Contents |
Struggle for unity in Africa: the dream and the realism -- African state system: the bane of disunity -- Africa at war against itself: civil wars and new security threats -- Regional organisations and humanitarian intervention in complex political emergencies in Africa -- OAU-African union: experiment in regional security, peacekeeping and peace support operations -- New theatre of wars and civil conflict: evolution of security regionalism and peacekeeping capacity in West Africa -- Promise and disappointment: building regional peace and security systems in Southern Africa -- From famine to sustainable peace: building regional peace and preventive diplomacy systems in the horn of Africa |
| Summary |
"After examining the failure of the earlier, typically idealistic Africa unity project, David Francis shows how peace and security challenges - the HIV/AIDS pandemic, traumas of the global political economy, the depletion of environmental resources - have created the imperative for change. He argues that a series of regional peace and security systems are emerging, and that states that have participated in practical experiments in regional peacekeeping, peace support operations, conflict stabilisation/management, and preventive diplomacy, for example in southern, western and the Horn of Africa, are building de facto systems of peace and security that could be institutionalised and extended."--Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-263) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Organization of African Unity.
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Afrikanische Union |
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Organization of African Unity. |
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National security -- Africa.
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Africa -- Politics and government -- 21st century
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1315235331 |
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1351876724 |
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1351876740 |
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9781315235332 |
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9781351876728 |
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9781351876742 |
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