Omar Alieu Touray

The African Union (eBook, ePUB)

The First Ten Years

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the African Union during the organization's first ten years of existence. It takes the reader through the various intergovernmental processes that preceded and followed the establishment of the Union and through the workings of key organs such as the Assembly of Heads of State, the Council of Ministers, the Pan African Parliament and the Commission. The study argues that the African Union represented a rational choice of its member states, who saw it as a means to advancing their individual and collective preferences for liberation, peace and security, good governance and socio-economic development. It maintains that the African Union did not only make marked progress in a number of areas; the Union also established norms that had transformational effects on military and political elites at country and regional levels. However, like in most agent-principal relations, the autonomy of the Union was limited in many ways, and this affected the Union's effectiveness in such areas as human and socio-economic development, as well as in sustaining peace support operations. At a more general level, the study argues that the African Union offers clear insights into integration as a multidimensional process that no single theoretical tradition can explain in a comprehensive manner. The author's response to such a theoretical limitation is "fusionism", an integrated approach that amalgamates various analytical traditions in order to provide a better explanation of the processes of international integration. The detailed analysis and bold proposals will undoubtedly make the study appealing not only to specialists in African Studies, but equally to a broader spectrum of international relations and development scholars.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781442268982
• Artikelnr.: 47254997

Autorenporträt

Omar Alieu Touray was for several years Permanent Representative of the Gambia to the African Union and Ambassador to Ethiopia with concurrent accreditation as High Commissioner to Kenya and South Africa. He had been Permanent Representative Designate to the United Nations in New York before he was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation. Ambassador Touray holds a Ph.D. in International Relations from the Graduate Institute of International Studies, University of Geneva, Switzerland. He is the author of The Gambia and the World and several papers on international development and African affairs. He currently works at the Islamic Development Bank in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Tables and Figures
List of Abbreviations
Preface
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: The Context: Africa On The Eve Of The 21st Century
Chapter 3: The Genesis and Evolution of The African Union: A Study In
Intergovernmental Processes
Chapter 4: Decolonization And After: The OAU and Africa's Challenges
Chapter 5: From the Lagos Plan of Action to Nepad: The Development
Blueprints Of A Continent
Chapter 6: Breaking the Poverty Trap: The Human Development Agenda of The
African Union
Chapter 7: "An Agenda for Peace": The Theory and Practice of Collective
Security In Africa
Chapter 8: Some 'Larger Freedom': A Catalogue Of Human Rights And
Governance Norms In Africa
Chapter 9: The Policy Organs: The Assembly, The Council And The PRC
Chapter 10: The Voice Of The People: The Pan African Parliament
Chapter 11: The Continental Bureaucracy: The Commission Of The African
Union
Chapter 12: Conclusion
References