Uniting Africa : building regional peace and security systems
by
 
Francis, David J., 1965-

Title
: 
Uniting Africa : building regional peace and security systems

Author
: 
Francis, David J., 1965-

ISBN
: 
9780754646853
 
9780754646891

Personal Author
: 
Francis, David J., 1965-

Publication Information
: 
Aldershot, Hants, Eng. : Ashgate, c2006.

Physical Description
: 
xv, 278 p. ; 24 cm.

General Note
: 
Formerly CIP.

Contents
: 
1. Struggle for unity in Africa : the dream and the realism -- 2. African state system : the bane of disunity -- 3. Africa at war against itself : civil wars and new security threats -- 4. Regional organisations and humanitarian intervention in complex political emergencies in Africa -- 5. OAU - African Union : experiment in regional security, peacekeeping and peace support operations -- 6. New theatre of wars and civil conflicts : evolution of security regionalism and peacekeeping capacity in West Africa -- 7. Promise and disappointment : building regional peace and security systems in Southern Africa -- 8. From famine to sustainable peace : building regional peace and preventive diplomacy systems in the Horn of Africa.

Abstract
: 
"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."--BOOK JACKET.

Corporate Subject
: 
Organization of African Unity.

Subject Term
: 
National security -- Africa.

Geographic Term
: 
Africa -- Politics and government -- 21st century.

Electronic Access
: 
Table of contents only http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip061/2005028247.html


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