Malte Brosig
I'm holding a professorship in International Relations at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg.
My research interests focus on organisational overlap between international organisations (IO) in peacekeeping and norm promotion in Europe and Africa.
My research interests focus on organisational overlap between international organisations (IO) in peacekeeping and norm promotion in Europe and Africa.
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The changing dynamics of peacekeeping in today’s world have encouraged a more cooperative approach between international and regional actors. At the centre of this book is the analysis of how an African security regime complex could emerge in the area of cooperative peacekeeping. The African regime complex on peacekeeping includes a number of organizations at the regional and sub-regional African level, as well as global institutions such as the UN, interregional partners like the EU and individual lead nations. This book is the first in providing a systematic overview of peacekeeping doctrines, capacities and deployments of these key actors and single lead states. Theoretically, the book links up with regime complexity scholarship but connects it with dependency theory. Here inter-institutional relations are conceptualised as acts of resource exchange. The book explores how primarily international organizations are partnering by exchanging resources. Empirically, the study analyses the phenomenon of regime complexity in three prominent African crises covering Eastern Africa (Somalia), Central African (Central African Republic) and Western Africa (Mali).
elements of our time. During the many contemporary crises
such as Covid-19, the war against Ukraine or climate change,
there is little common ground among great powers on how
to solve them. Instead, antagonism and polarisation are
increasing, which puts multilateralism and the liberal order
under stress.1 While we are far away from a radical system
change or breakdown, it is noticeable that a loosening of
traditional forms of global governance is underway.2 In these
times of confrontation, how are African countries positioning
themselves in the UN Security Council and General Assembly?
Have their voting patterns shifted, reflecting great power rivalry,
or have they been stable despite significant global shocks and
crises?
außerhalb des europäischen Kontinents in die Demokratische
Republik Kongo im Jahr 2003, der Etablierung eines
Hohen Vertreters für die Gemeinsame Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik
sowie der Schaffung eines Europäischen Auswärtigen
Dienstes hat die Europäische Union deutlich an außenpolitischen
Konturen gewonnen. Seitdem hat die Union über 30 zivile
und militärische Missionen weltweit entsandt. Der Schwerpunkt
ist der afrikanische Kontinent, auf dem über die Hälfte
der Missionen stattfanden. Die EU ist damit zu einem beachtenswerten
Sicherheitsakteur des südlichen Nachbarkontinents
geworden. Dieser sicherheitspolitische Fußabdruck ergänzt die
entwicklungspolitischen Instrumente der EU-Kommission und
folgt dem Anspruch, eine ganzheitliche Außenpolitik zu betreiben.
Geografisch liegen die Schwerpunkte der EU-Außen- und
Sicherheitspolitik in Afrika vor allem in der Sahel-Zone und am
Horn von Afrika. Für beide Regionen wurden strategische Rahmenpläne
entworfen, die sowohl sicherheitspolitisch als auch
entwicklungsorientiert sind.
are often seen as problematic. The widespread acceptance of multilateral response to crisis comes with new challenges. Who is leading or coordinating the international community in a world which is quickly moving from unipolar
post-Cold War world of US hegemony into the age of non or multi-polarity? Within the last 25 years regional organizations increasingly became involved in security policies and are now key partners for the UN. There is hardly a conflict or crisis in which international organizations are not involved.
What is new is the degree to which these actors intersect, crossing the lines between purely regional, inter-regional and global reactions to conflict. So far we have only few conceptual instruments to properly examine
this phenomenon. Therefore, I aim at introducing the notion of a security regime complex for the study of conflicts and the international reaction to them. The notion borrows equally from the literature on security complexes
as advanced by Barry Buzan and research on regime complexity. While the former has explicitly focused on regional security as a policy field, the later still refers predominately to trade and environmental regimes. In this article, I will argue that the notion of a security regime complex is a helpful analytical category for a number of reasons which have not been adequately reflected
in the mainstream literature today.
The failure in Afghanistan casts doubts over the usefulness of military interventions and state-building driven from the outside. However, assuming that not all interventions are doomed to fail, what lessons can be drawn for ongoing counter-terrorism coalitions in the Sahel or Lake Chad region as well as for peacekeeping operations encountering terrorist and militant groups? I propose five reflection points: