Complex emergencies in the 21st century
Subtitle: challenges of new Africa's strategic peace and security policy issues
By: edited by Festus B. Aboagye
Contributors: Institute for Security Studies (South Africa)
Series: ISS monograph series -- no. 134
Publisher: Institute for Security Studies
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Pretoria
Language: eng
Number of pages: 126
ISBN-13: 9781920114169
Subjects: Peace-building; Politics and government
Other titles: Complex emergencies in the twenty-first century
Description: The AU System does not shy away from its inglorious past that characterised the OAU from its inception in 1963 until the start of its transformation during the early 1990s. Coming of age at the height of the Cold War, the OAU was politically torn between competing East-West political ideologies that instilled fear among and between the newly independent African states. African leaders of that era, who were also founding fathers of the continental Organisation, were driven by an inordinate desire for power for safeguarding national independence and sovereignty. By extension, this resulted in many of them remaining in office for far longer than was necessary. Convinced of their mandate to safeguard Africa{u2019}s sovereignty, they sought to claim that they were the only ones bequeathed with love of country, sufficient wisdom and commitment to safeguard national independence.
Notes: "May 2007"

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