Rethinking Civil Society Regionalism in Africa - Challenges Opportunities in Democratic Participation Peacebuilding

This book interrogates the extent to which regional civil society organisations have evolved as actors in West Africa.

List of contents

Introduction
1.The Making of Civil Society in African Regions and Regionalisms
2. Analytical Framework
3.The Contextual Understanding of the Evolution of Regional Civil Society in West Africa
4. Civil Society and Democratic Participation in the West African Regionalism
5.Civil Society and Regional Peacebuilding in West Africa: Assessing the Evolution of the West African Network for Peacebuilding (WANEP) as an Actor
6. Conclusion

About the author

Dele Kogbe, PhD is a visiting research fellow at the University of South Wales, UK, and co-convenor of the British International Studies Association – Africa Working Group. He has taught politics and international relations at the University of Dundee, where he co-founded Dundee Africa Research Network. A writer of multiple parts, besides researching African security and comparative regionalism, Dele is a published poet, novelist and playwright who employs a literary medium and social research to interrogate complex issues of politics and societies in speaking the truth to power. He is the author of The Girl Who Dares the King (Drama).

Summary

This book interrogates the extent to which regional civil society organisations have evolved as actors in West Africa.

Product details

• Authors: Dele Kogbe, Dele (University of South Wales Kogbe
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.10.2022
• EAN: 9781032190006
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3219000-6
• No. of pages: 194
• Series: New Regionalisms Series
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, Regional Studies, Comparative Politics, Regional / International studies, Regional Geography, International institutions / intergovernmental organizations