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View article: How African Regional Interventions are Perceived on the Ground: Contestation and Multiplexity
How African Regional Interventions are Perceived on the Ground: Contestation and Multiplexity Open
Although African regional interventions have tangible effects on politics and order in African states, we know little about how people living in the countries concerned experience and evaluate these interventions. The assumption in the lit…
View article: Forging an African Union Identity: The Power of Experience
Forging an African Union Identity: The Power of Experience Open
Pan-Africanism and references to a shared African cultural identity have an important function in the way the African Union (AU) seeks to mobilize a sense of belonging among African citizens. However, we know very little about how African …
View article: How to Problematize the Global?
How to Problematize the Global? Open
International Relations (IR) has long been criticized for taking a particular (Western) experience as basis for formulating theories with claim to universal validity. In response, recent discussions have therefore centered on making IR ‘tr…
View article: Beyond formal powers: Understanding the African Union's authority on the ground
Beyond formal powers: Understanding the African Union's authority on the ground Open
International organisations (IOs) are said to command growing levels of authority. But in studying this phenomenon, scholars predominantly focus on the formal capacities member states assign to IOs. Much less attention is paid to the effec…
View article: Problematising the Global in Global IR
Problematising the Global in Global IR Open
International Relations (IR) has long been criticised for taking a particular (Western) experience as basis for formulating theories with claim to universal validity. ‘Non-Western’, ‘post-Western’, and postcolonial theories have been criti…
View article: Taking Intervention Politics Seriously: Media Debates and the Contestation of African Regional Interventions ‘from Below’
Taking Intervention Politics Seriously: Media Debates and the Contestation of African Regional Interventions ‘from Below’ Open
Scholars increasingly investigate how the African Peace and Security Architecture (APSA) is contested and negotiated in practice. Yet little knowledge exists on the politics African regional interventions provoke in the societies affected …
View article: Where Regional Norms Matter: Contestation and the Domestic Impact of the African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance
Where Regional Norms Matter: Contestation and the Domestic Impact of the African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance Open
Twelve years after the adoption of the African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance, scholars and policymakers are still pondering whether the regional document has had any actual effect. Based on case studies from Madagascar and…
View article: Mandate impossible: Mediation and the return to constitutional order in Madagascar (2009–2013)
Mandate impossible: Mediation and the return to constitutional order in Madagascar (2009–2013) Open
This article explores former President Joaquim Chissano’s mediation in
\nMadagascar after the 2009 political crisis that led to the ouster of President
\nMarc Ravalomanana. It shows that there are inherent tensions in mediating
\nthe reest…