2016
DOI: 10.1057/s41268-016-0079-4
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Rethinking regionalism and the politics of regionalisation: the performance of ECOWAS’s agency by Nigeria and the European Union

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“…ECOWAS is a case in point of this interpretation: thanks to conflict-management experience accumulated in the 1990s in Liberia and Sierra Leone, ECOWAS was internationally recognized as a reliable partner for peacekeeping. This camealbeit to a lesser extent than the AU thanks to the community levywith an increasing financial dependence vis-à-vis external partners, and particularly the EU, which had contributed to financing development of its security architecture (Lopez Lucia, 2018). When the crisis in Mali began in 2012, these persisting tensions resurfaced and complicated relations between ECOWAS and the AU.…”
Section: Changing the Governance Landscape: The Emergence Of The G5 S...mentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…ECOWAS is a case in point of this interpretation: thanks to conflict-management experience accumulated in the 1990s in Liberia and Sierra Leone, ECOWAS was internationally recognized as a reliable partner for peacekeeping. This camealbeit to a lesser extent than the AU thanks to the community levywith an increasing financial dependence vis-à-vis external partners, and particularly the EU, which had contributed to financing development of its security architecture (Lopez Lucia, 2018). When the crisis in Mali began in 2012, these persisting tensions resurfaced and complicated relations between ECOWAS and the AU.…”
Section: Changing the Governance Landscape: The Emergence Of The G5 S...mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…25). This role was particularly supported by the EU from the early 2000s through regular political dialogues, technical assistance and funding for the ECO-WAS security architecture (Lopez Lucia, 2018;Plank, 2021).…”
Section: Ecowas's West African Political Communitymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In (sometimes) socially constructed but durable and pre-defined regions, unified by history and culture, various types of security threat (external and transnational, fear for stability, fear of regional hegemons, and so on) provide a catalyst for states to strive towards regionalism (Adler and Barnett, 1998;Tavares, 2010;Kirchner and Dominguez, 2011). In this context, security regionalism becomes states' rational or functional answer to pressing traditional and non-traditional security threats (on this critique see Hameiri & Jones, 2015;Lopez Lucia, 2018). Such causal explanations raise two interlinked issues.…”
Section: Politics Of Regionalism Politics Of Security: Towards a Symmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The role acquired by ECOWAS as the legitimate regional security actor has been underpinned and made possible by an imaginary of the organisation as a regional political community founded on a set of norms and principles (Lopez Lucia, 2018). This regional imaginary has been articulated and performed by various region-builders as they sought to redefine the principles of sovereignty and non-interference in West Africa, and it has opened the way to a range of region-based security practices.…”
Section: A West African 8 Political Communitymentioning
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