The EU and Regional Integration in West Africa: What Effects on Conflict Resolution and Transformation?

Piccolino, Giulia; Minou, Stephanie

doi:10.2139/ssrn.2424160

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“…While, for example, the EU's funding of operations with the AU gives the EU leverage, the AU and subregional institutions such as ECOWAS have demonstrated their capacity to become first responders to crisis management needs (Haastrup, 2013;Mumford, 2021). Additionally, in these institutional arrangements, the set objectives and agendas are mostly driven by Africans themselves (Piccolino and Minou, 2014;Pirozzi and Litsegård, 2017, p. 19).…”

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Exploring Africa's Agency in International Politics

Coffie

Tiky

2021

Africa Spectrum

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A protracted conventional knowledge within mainstream International Relations (IR) has been that African agents (states, organizations, and diplomats) are consumers of international norms and practices designed in the affluent countries of the Global North. Papers in this special issue present a challenge to this view; they discuss the active role and the influence of African actors in international politics and renew a call for the development of IR theories, concepts, and methods that reflect Global Southern and African experiences, ideas, institutions, actors and processes.

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confidence: 99%