Researching the Inner Life of the African Peace and Security Architecture

Döring, Katharina; Engel, Ulf; Gelot, Linnéa; Herpolsheimer, Jens

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“…Simultaneously, this interpretation of the region implies specific prescriptions for intervention, which should be based on policing and hard-security approaches and practices reiterating a territorializedthat is, state-centredspatial and security imaginary (Baldaro, 2021a). In recent years, various scholars have employed these 'spatial lenses' (Döring & Herpolsheimer, 2021) to explore how competing security and spatial projects are shaping those spaces and the field of security regionalism in the Sahel (Baldaro, 2021a), revealing the transformative effects that the politics of security and regionalism produce on space and the agency of the actors involved (Charbonneau, 2017b;Lopez-Lucia, 2020).…”

Section: Space and Legitimacy In Regional Security Governance: The Po...mentioning

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“…Exploring institutional security interactions in Africa thus requires us to take into account non-African interveners such as the EU and the United Nations (UN), former colonial powers, or other influential states (Moe & Geis, 2020). Accordingly, the strategies these ROs deploy towards member states, each other and international partners are also influenced by an international politics of intervention and spatial reimagination (Baldaro, 2021b;Herpolsheimer, 2021;Plank, 2021).…”

Section: Space and Legitimacy In Regional Security Governance: The Po...mentioning

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Spaces of (in-)security and intervention: spatial competition and the politics of regional organizations in the Sahel

Baldaro

Lucia

2022

Territory, Politics, Governance

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This article investigates the interactions between three regional organizationsthe G5 Sahel, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the African Unionin the context of the Sahelian conflict. It argues that these organizations struggle for recognition by the international community and by their member states as the most legitimate regional security actor in the management of the conflict. By focusing on the politics driving these organizations' interactions, this article makes two contributions. First, it complements and expands the literature on regional security governance by showing how these regional organizations are driven by legitimation struggles framed through spatial imaginaries. Each organization delineates a specific space of interventionthe Sahel, West Africa, the Sahelo-Saharato present itself as the right scale of governance. Second, identifying these spatial imaginaries enables a better understanding of African responses to the conflict in the Sahel, and provides insights into the reordering of (West) African security governance and, more broadly, the emergence of new modalities of security governance.

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Section: Space and Legitimacy In Regional Security Governance: The Po...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Space and Legitimacy In Regional Security Governance: The Po...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Spaces of (in-)security and intervention: spatial competition and the politics of regional organizations in the Sahel

Baldaro

Lucia

2022

Territory, Politics, Governance

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Military ad hoc coalitions and functional differentiation in inter-organisational relations

Brosig

2023

Eur. j. of int. secur.

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The emergence of military ad hoc coalitions (AHCs) in Africa as a tool for conflict management outside established institutional frameworks brings about a number of questions: are they undermining existing security structures such as the African Peace and Security Architecture (APSA) or are they contributing to further regime complexity? In order to answer these questions, the article applies the logic of functional differentiation as it is used in the literature on regime complexity and inter-organisational studies. Scope conditions are developed exploring when and how functional differentiation operates and what consequences it brings about for interacting institutions. Empirically the example of military ad hoc coalitions in the Lake Chad Basin and Sahel is at the centre of analysis. It will be argued that ad hoc coalitions are part of a functionally differentiated system response within the African Security Regime Complex and not in direct competition to the APSA.

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Legitimation struggles in international organizations: the case of the African Union

Gelot,

Söderbaum

2023

Globalizations

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Researching the Inner Life of the African Peace and Security Architecture

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Spaces of (in-)security and intervention: spatial competition and the politics of regional organizations in the Sahel

Spaces of (in-)security and intervention: spatial competition and the politics of regional organizations in the Sahel

Military ad hoc coalitions and functional differentiation in inter-organisational relations

Legitimation struggles in international organizations: the case of the African Union

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