Exploring Africa's agency in international politics

A Coffie, L Tiky - Africa Spectrum, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
A protracted conventional knowledge within mainstream International Relations (IR) has
been that African agents (states, organizations, and diplomats) are consumers of …

The European Union as a security actor in the Sahel: Policy entrapment in EU foreign policy

F Plank, J Bergmann - European review of international studies, 2021 - brill.com
In the past decade, the EU has significantly stepped up its profile as a security actor in the
Sahel. Drawing on historical institutionalism, we conceptualise path-dependencies and lock …

Navigating ontological (in) security in EU–Africa relations

T Haastrup, N Duggan, L Mah - Global affairs, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Six decades on and several attempts to re-set EU-Africa relations, it is appropriate to take
stock of the relationship especially in light of changes in both continents since 2000. This …

Gender and the EU's support for security sector reform in fragile contexts

N Ansorg, T Haastrup - JCMS: journal of common market …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract How does the European Union (EU) include 'gender'within its support to security
sector reform (SSR) programmes? The EU has committed to include gender perspectives by …

[KNYGA][B] Structural change in Africa: Misperceptions, new narratives and development in the 21st century

C Lopes, G Kararach - 2019 - taylorfrancis.com
Debates on African development continue to downplay the achievement of the continent:
economic achievements are diminished and the perception of a conflict prone continent …

The effectiveness of interregional security cooperation: evaluating the joint engagement of the EU and the AU in response to the 2013 crisis in the Central African …

F Plank - European security, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT African Union (AU)–European Union (EU) interregional security cooperation
has not so far been analysed systematically with regard to its effectiveness despite the …

Overlap** regionalism and security cooperation: power-based explanations of Nigeria's forum-shop** in the fight against Boko Haram

I Henneberg, F Plank - International Studies Review, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Regional conflicts increasingly require multilevel efforts by regional, subregional, and
international actors. When states are confronted with a cooperation problem, often there are …

Critical perspectives on Africa's relationship with the European Union

T Haastrup - The Routledge handbook of critical European studies, 2020 - taylorfrancis.com
The European Union (EU) has significantly evolved from an initial alliance of expedience–a
coal and steel alliance formulated to bind its core members together so they avoid war–into …

Can we really “forget” militarization? A conversation on Alison Howell's martial politics

M MacKenzie, T Gregory, N Shah… - … Feminist Journal of …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Alison Howell's (2018) article “Forget 'Militarization': Race, Disability and the 'Martial Politics'
of the Police and of the University” has already generated many rich conversations. With its …

[KNYGA][B] The Routledge handbook of critical European studies

D Bigo, T Diez, E Fanoulis, B Rosamond, YA Stivachtis - 2021 - api.taylorfrancis.com
“This handbook brings together an unprecedented number of experts in the emerging field
of critical European Union studies. Their contributions collectively provide a masterful …