Uniting Africa : building regional peace and security systems

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Title:

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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Plagued by bloody wars and armed conflicts, political instability, communal violence and displaced persons, and at the mercy of natural catastrophes such as drought and famine, it is not surprising that the Western press has long dismissed Africa as the 'hopeless continent'. In the face of these challenges, Africa today is faced with a stark choice: either unite or perish. The debate on why and how the continent should unite in terms of co-operative peace, security and development is more urgent than at any other time in Africa's post-colonial history. Moving forward from the failure of the earlier, typically idealistic Africa unity project, David Francis demonstrates how peace and security challenges 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,