Embracing State Security: The Peace and Security Norms and Structures of the Organisation of African Unity, 1963–1993

Nash, Kathryn

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“…These evolving interests and ideas reframed African experiences with conflict during the Cold War period, prompting a shift in norms and institutions. Once this shift was underway, the conflicts and humanitarian catastrophes Africa experienced in the 1990salong with UN failures on the continentfurther pushed the AU to develop its peace and security capacity (Nash 2021). At this point, the influence of powerful African states and leaders helps explain the formal transition from the OAU to the AU, as Tieku has documented (Tieku 2004).…”

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“…Instead, we emphasize the importance of the internal factors to the region that drive regionalization both in terms of the norms that regions create and the areas of governance they focus on. Our explanatory framework builds on the scholarship cited in Section 4.1 as well as our own work (particularly Coe 2019 andNash 2021).…”

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Regionalized Governance in the Global South

Coe

Nash

2023

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This Element addresses questions of division of labor and concentration of authority among intergovernmental organizations by examining multilevel governance in the Global South. It focuses on the policy domains of peace and security and human rights in Africa and Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), and its central finding is that the extent of governance regionalization varies across regions and issue areas. In the domain of peace and security, governance is most regionalized in Africa. In the domain of human rights protection, governance is most regionalized in the LAC region. Given the phenomenon of regional specialization, the Element makes the case for the greater explanatory power of regional drivers of regional institutional development. This Element is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

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Regionalized Governance in the Global South

Coe

Nash

2023

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“…Demonstrating the significance of the changes that occurred with the creation of APSA, and the influence of emotions over that change, first requires reflection on the identity, emotion norms and rituals that guided the OAU's approach to security management. Although the founding of the Organisation was marked by many disagreements, leaders were united around a pan-African identity that privileged liberation from colonial and racial regimes, and the need for African unity in a world that rarely had the continent's best interests at heart (Nash, 2020). The OAU Charter included amongst its purposes the promotion of unity and solidarity of African states, eradication of all forms of colonialism, and the achievement of a "better life for the peoples of Africa" (Organisation of African Unity, 1963).…”

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Shame, Exasperation and Institutional Design: The African Union as an Emotional Security Community

Hogan

2023

Afr. Asian Stud.

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The establishment of the African Peace and Security Architecture (APSA) marked a fundamental reassessment of the African Union’s (AU) approach to security management. Many studies, however, view APSA through the lens of Eurocentric theories that neglect the agency of African actors. In contrast, this article examines how APSA’s design was influenced by collectively-held emotions – defined as moral judgements, based on present expectations and past experiences – amongst African policymakers. Emotional expressions can stabilise security communities by emphasising enmity towards outsiders and amity between insiders, while demanding remorse from individual or sub-groups of members that commit moral trespasses. However, this article theorises that inward-facing shame, when collectively felt by a community as a whole, can fundamentally alter its norms, valued behaviours and identity. This is illustrated by the APSA case study, which highlights the influence of inward-directed shame amongst African leaders over their reactions to humanitarian catastrophes in the 1990s, as well as outward-directed exasperation at the apathy of the international community. In addition to improving understanding of APSA’s establishment and design, this facilitates theory-building based upon African realities, thus making a valuable contribution to the growing field of International Relations scholarship concerned with emotions.

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Embracing State Security: The Peace and Security Norms and Structures of the Organisation of African Unity, 1963–1993

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Regionalized Governance in the Global South

Regionalized Governance in the Global South

Shame, Exasperation and Institutional Design: The African Union as an Emotional Security Community

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