1st Edition
Spatializing Practices of Regional Organizations during Conflict Intervention The Politics of ECOWAS and the African Union
By Jens Herpolsheimer
Copyright 2021
240 Pages
6 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
240 Pages
6 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
240 Pages
6 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book studies relevant actors and practices of conflict intervention by African regional organizations and their intimate connection to space-making, addressing a major gap regarding what actually happens within and around these organizations.
Based on extensive empirical research, it argues that those intervention practices are essentially spatializing practices, based on particular... Read more
1. Introduction: Spatializing Practices in AU and ECOWAS Interventions
2. A Spatial Approach to African Peace and Security
3. Establishing ‘Reach’: ECOWAS and AU Intervention Practices ‘From Afar’
4. Establishing ‘Presence’: ECOWAS and AU Intervention Practices ‘On the Ground’
5. Regional Security Policies: Spatial Imaginations and Spatial Formatting
6. Contested Relations: Spatial Ordering during Conflict Interventions
7. Conclusion: Spatializing the Study of African Peace and Security
Biography
Jens Herpolsheimer is a post-doctoral researcher at the Research Centre Global Dynamics, Leipzig University, Germany.
