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An examination of how peacekeeping is woven into national, regional and international politics in Africa, and its consequences.
List of contents
Introduction; 1. The (pre-) history and evolution of African peacekeeping; 2. New means of staying in power: regime maintenance through peacekeeping; 3. From the local to the global: the connection between the domestic and the international; 4. Constructing a new identity as a peacekeeper; 5. From peacekept to peacekeeper: post-conflict peacekeeping; 6. What is 'African' about African peacekeeping?; Conclusion.
About the author
Jonathan Fisher is Professor of Global Security at the University of Birmingham and was a Fellow of the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study, 2019-2020. Co-Editor of Civil Wars since 2017, he is the author of East Africa after Liberation: Conflict, Security and the State since the 1980s (2020). His research focuses on the relationships between authoritarianism and (in)security.Nina Wilén is Director of the Africa Programme at Egmont Institute and Associate Professor in Political Science at Lund University. She is the author of Justifying Interventions: (De)Stabilising Sovereignty (2012) and Editor-in Chief of International Peacekeeping. Her research focuses on peacekeeping, military interventions and gender.
Summary
An accessible and comprehensive look at the story of Africa's contemporary history and politics through the lens of peacekeeping, which draws on examples from across the continent to explore peacekeeping by Africans, rather than peacekeeping by others in Africa.
Foreword
An examination of how peacekeeping is woven into national, regional and international politics in Africa, and its consequences.
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'This is a comprehensive and historically rich account of African peacekeeping that will make a lasting contribution to scholarship. What sets this book apart from others on the market is the careful comparative analysis of the key roles that contributions to African-led peace operations play in the foreign policymaking of African states. This deepens our understanding of how, over time, African actors' importance to peacekeeping has also translated into strengthened international relationships and more leverage in global policymaking. Read this compelling and lucid overview, and you will have gained a very good grasp of the global and evolving practice of peacekeeping.' Linnéa Gélot, Folke Bernadotte Academy
