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Researching the inner life of the African Peace and Security Architecture : APSA inside-out /

"This edited volume offers new insights into the inner life of the African Peace and Security Architecture (APSA) and introduces scholars of African security dynamics to innovative epistemological, conceptual and methodological approaches. Based on intellectual openness and an interest in trans...

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Group Author: Do?ring, Katharina P. W.; Engel, Ulf; Gelot, Linne?a; Herpolsheimer, Jens
Published: Brill,
Publisher Address: Leiden :
Publication Dates: [2021]
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: Africa-Europe group for interdisciplinary studies, volume 25
Subjects:
African Peace and Security Architecture.
African Union.
Conflict management > Africa.
Peace-building > Africa.
National security > Africa.
Conflict management.
Military policy.
National security.
Peace-building.
Politics and Government.
Africa > Politics and government > 21st century.
Africa > Social conditions > 21st century.
Africa > Military policy.
Africa.
Summary: "This edited volume offers new insights into the inner life of the African Peace and Security Architecture (APSA) and introduces scholars of African security dynamics to innovative epistemological, conceptual and methodological approaches. Based on intellectual openness and an interest in transdisciplinary perspectives, the volume challenges existing orthodoxies, poses new questions and opens a discussion on actual research practice. Drawing on Global Studies and critical International Studies perspectives, the authors follow inductive approaches and let the empirical data enrich their theoretical frameworks and conceptual tools. In this endeavor they focus on actors, practices and narratives involved in African Peace and Security and move beyond the often Western-centric premises of research carried out within rigid disciplinary boundaries"--
Carrier Form: xix, 276 pages : illustrations (some color), forms ; 24 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9789004466777
9004466770
Index Number: JZ5584
CLC: D740.0
D814.1
Call Number: D814.1/R432
Contents: Introduction: Researching the inner life of the African Peace and Security Architecture / Katharina P.W. Do?ring and Jens Herpolsheimer -- Trying to understand the implementation of APSA, or lack thereof. 'African security culture', knowledge gaps and the prospects of roll-call analysis / Ulf Engel -- Discursive norm contestation in APSA research : exploring 'African solutions to African problems' and emergent APSA norm / Dawit Yohannes and Fana Gebresenbet -- Societal perspectives on African interventions : three methodological approaches / Antonia Witt -- Explaining APSA from the perspective of informal international practices / Thomas Kwasi Tieku -- Researching APSA through a spatial lens / Katharina P.W. Do?ring and Jens Herpolsheimer -- Insights into complex relationships : ECOWAS-donor relations on regional peace and security / Yvonne Akpasom and Lilian Seffer -- Studying femocrats, gendered practices, and narratives of masculinist protection / Toni Haastrup -- The buzz about inclusion in peace research : policy and practice in IGAD and SADC / Michael Aeby and Jamie Pring -- Research collaboration : interpreting Somali community perspectives on African-led interventions / Linne?a Gelot and Alin Hilowle -- Understanding the inner life of African regional coalitions : a survey method proposal / Amandine Gnangue?non -- Navigating APSA research from a global studies perspective / Linne?a Gelot and Ulf Engel.

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