Essays about: "African regional economic community"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 18 essays containing the words African regional economic community.

  1. 1. Regional Organizations and Conflict Management: A Critical Discourse analysis of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). : Why did ECOWAS’s AFISMA fail to Resolve the Malian Conflict between 2012 and 2013 ?

    University essay from

    Author : Gentil Niwe; [2023]
    Keywords : Conflict management; ECOWAS; Mali; AFISMA; ownership.;

    Abstract : This paper seeks to investigate why did ECOWAS’s AFISMA fail to resolve the Malian conflict between 2012 and 2013. The idea is not to go over the different challenges that ECOWAS faced in handling the Malian conflict but to instead establish the single main challenge that inhibited ECOWAS from achieving its desired goals in resolving and managing the crisis in Mali. READ MORE

  3. 2. Regional Power Asymmetries and their Effects on Regional Integration: The Case of ECOWAS

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Axel Fégeant; [2022]
    Keywords : Trade integration; Africa; ECOWAS; Hegemon; Nigeria; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : African regional trade integration remains an understudied field as most of the theories and concepts applied to the phenomenon have been largely drawn in the background of the European context. This study aims to study the Economic Community of West African States by applying a new theoretical approach that posits that there are two logics for developing countries to integrate regionally, an extra-regional and intraregional. READ MORE

  4. 3. The Re-emergence of Military Coups in Africa : An Analysis of the African Union Response to the Unconstitutional Change of Government in Chad in 2021

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för globala politiska studier (GPS)

    Author : Mamadou Jawo; [2022]
    Keywords : Chad; Suspend; Sanction; Intervention; Constitutive act; Pragmatism; Principle;

    Abstract : In April 2021, the military in Chad seized power upon the death of its President Idriss Deby whiles in the field fighting the rebel group Fighters of the Front for Change and Concord in Chad (FACT). By the end of 2021, soldiers had toppled elected governments in Mali, Guinea Conakry, and Sudan. READ MORE

  5. 4. The Upsurge of Ethno-nationalism and Ethiopia's Fragile Democracy

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS)

    Author : Tsegaye Bulgan; [2021]
    Keywords : Ethiopia; ethno-nationalism; democracy; ethnicity; democratization;

    Abstract : By exploring the upsurge of the new wave of ethno-nationalism and its effect on institutions of democracy in Ethiopia, this study attempts to contribute to the study of fragile democracy in highly divided states. Methodologically, it is qualitative research where key informant interviews and literature review were employed to collect the needed data. READ MORE

  6. 5. A Language for all? KiSwahili as a Tool for Unity: Problematizing the East African Community’s Language Policy

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologi

    Author : Anton Brandberg; [2021]
    Keywords : kiSwahili; national unity; regional unity; East African Community; Tanzania; Kenya; language policy; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : In modern state-development it is common practice to use one language for unifying people in a nation or region. However, in the wake of decolonisation, many African states found themselves struggling with the decision to pick a national language. READ MORE