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 Republic

Plank, Friedrich

doi:10.1080/09662839.2017.1327849

Cited by 21 publications

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“…Various studies (Farrel, 2005;Sicurelli, 2008;Olsen, 2013;Plank, 2017), suggest that the joint strategic relationship and synergy between the AU and the EU can be seen within the context of three lenses. First, cooperation for the promotion of strategic and common security interests.…”

Section: Au-eu Strategic Partnership In Peace Security and Conflict M...mentioning

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The Strategic Security Engagement between the African Union and the European Union in Conflict Management in Africa: The Challenges

KANGDIM¹,

YORGANCIOĞLU²,

BULUS³

2022

Savunma Bilimleri Dergisi

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This article uses a qualitative research approach comprising of descriptive analysis and extensive desk review to carry out a critical analysis of the strategic security engagement between the African Union (AU) and the European Union (EU) in addressing the challenges associated with conflict and other complex security threats facing the African continent. The findings and conclusions of the article suggest that; although the EU security engagement supports the broader AU security framework, challenges such as selective funding, non-accountability in the disbursement and utilization of funds, excessive over-reliance, and dependence of the AU on external actors in addressing the various complex security threats facing the continent still exist. Therefore, addressing these challenges will require a symmetric and multidimensional cooperation and responses between these two actors driving the process for efficient impact.

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Section: Au-eu Strategic Partnership In Peace Security and Conflict M...mentioning

confidence: 99%

The Strategic Security Engagement between the African Union and the European Union in Conflict Management in Africa: The Challenges

KANGDIM¹,

YORGANCIOĞLU²,

BULUS³

2022

Savunma Bilimleri Dergisi

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“…If a mediator has similar, or compatible, mediator goals and values, it will be easier for the EU to lend its support in line with EU mediation objectives and norms. Similarly, the EU will find it easier to support a third party mediator in situations marked by a complementary distribution of mediation capabilities, where a mediator possesses specific resources like local knowledge or legitimacy that the EU lacks whilst depending on other EU resources for its mediation activities (Plank 2017). A third party's prior mediation capacities will also determine the relative importance of individual EU mediation support techniques, which aim to promote different properties of mediators, including legitimacy (endorsement), mediator centrality (coordination), operational capacity (assistance) and clout (lending leverage).…”

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Orchestrating peace in South Sudan: exploring the effectiveness of the European Union’s mediation support

Müller

Bergmann

2020

European Security

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Previous research has primarily focused on the EU's high-profile involvement as direct mediator in peace negotiations. Conversely, less attention has been devoted to the EU's support to third parties' mediation efforts, which is a significant component of its mediation activities. Addressing this research gap, this article develops a conceptual framework for the systematic analysis of EU mediation support, identifying key mediation support techniques and the conditions for their success. In terms of mediation support techniques, the EU may rely on "endorsement", "coordination", "assistance", and "lending leverage" to empower and steer third party mediators in line with its mediation objectives and values. We illustrate the utility of the conceptual framework for the EU's support to IGAD in mediating in South Sudan's civil war. We find that the EU has contributed significantly to IGAD's empowerment in terms of endorsement, coordination, assistance, and lending leverage. Simultaneously, our analysis also points to important challenges in the EU-IGAD relationship, which relate to challenges concerning strategic engagement with IGAD's internal politics that are marked by diverging interests and ties of its member states to the conflict parties.

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“…Andere Autoren rücken hingegen die Interregionale Sicherheitszusammenarbeit in den Fokus. (Hanau-Santini et al 2014;Plank 2017). Das Thema Sicherheit wurde mehr oder weniger prominent bei ASEM (Gilson 2005, S. 323;Hanau-Santini et al 2014, S. 72), APEC, dem Regionalforum der ASEAN (ARF) -dort mit einem eigenen institutionalisierten sicherheitspolitischen Dialogforum -und im Rahmen der Partnerschaft zwischen AU und Europäischer Union (Pirozzi 2012) diskutiert.…”

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Funktionen von Interregionalismus – Eine globale Perspektive

Lammich

2020

Z Politikwiss

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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 Republic

Cited by 21 publications

References 47 publications

The Strategic Security Engagement between the African Union and the European Union in Conflict Management in Africa: The Challenges

The Strategic Security Engagement between the African Union and the European Union in Conflict Management in Africa: The Challenges

Orchestrating peace in South Sudan: exploring the effectiveness of the European Union’s mediation support

Funktionen von Interregionalismus – Eine globale Perspektive

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