Summitry and AU management of security challenges, 2002-2012
Journal: IBADAN JOURNAL OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCES
Year: 2014

This article examines the role of summitry in AUs engagement with security challenges on the continent, It notes that although it is difficult to measure the success of summitry. because its outputs (summit decisions) depend all external variables for implementation, it is a practice that serves useful purposes. The article demonstrates that summitry in the AU is a forum for regional cooperation and articulation of legal instruments for mandated actions, making it a platform through which strate