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INDEX
  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
    Subsection 2.Cooperations and integration in Africa and in the Middle East
    Gandois Helene
    From Ploughshare to Sword: Regionalism in Africa: The emergence of regional security organisations in Africa
    Ed. LAP Lambert Academic Publishing , Saarbrücken , 2010
    Page 272

    ISBN 978-3838322261
    The emergence of regional security organisations during the 1990s in Africa proved to be of great significance for the lives of many Africans, including those living in conflict-torn countries such as Liberia, Sierra Leone or the Democratic Republic of Congo, but has been, at the same time, understudied. This book explores why regional security organisations with an agenda of democratic governance emerged in Africa in the 1990s by looking at the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and at the Southern African Development Community (SADC). Looking the circumstances of their creation and their qualified failure as economic communities, this book analyses their security and democracy mandates and their implementation records to come to the conclusion that a security agenda cannot emerge without the involvement of the regional hegemon. What the regional hegemon can do, including affecting the speed of the transformation, is constrained by the acceptance of its leadership by its neighbours (legitimacy) and by state weakness (capability).
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