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Competing Regionalisms in Africa and the Continent’s Emerging Security Architecture

by Benedikt F. Franke Abstract While the relationship between the United Nations and Africa’s various regional and sub-regional organisations has already been the subject of much debate, hardly any attention has been paid to the relationships these African organisations maintain with each other and the way they impact on the continent’s emerging security architecture. Consequently, this […]

Towards Concert in Africa: Seeking Progress and Power through Cohesion and Unity

by Sigfrido Burgos Cáceres Abstract Economic development, power distribution, and security consolidation can be promoted collectively by states. Collective actions are predicated on acquiring strength through unity. A number of formal and informal institutional arrangements exist to advance broad and narrow goals. One of these is concert. The classical notion of concert is related to the balance […]