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4 - The Conference on Security, Stability, Development, and Cooperation in Africa

from Part II - The African Union

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 June 2021

Joel Ng
Joel Ng
Affiliation:
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
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Summary

The CSSDCA had been proposed in 1991 but failed to reach a decision at the OAU as it floundered in committee. Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo revived the idea and had it adopted in 2000, permanently changing the OAU’s attitude to collective security responsibility as it reformed into the new AU. By 2003, the CSSDCA’s main objectives had been achieved and its component parts internalised into various structures of the AU such that the conference was no longer required. This chapter analyses the differences between 1991 and 1999 when the CSSDCA was first rejected and then accepted, measured by the control of the initiative, appeals to norms, and other opportunities for influence.

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CSSDCAOlusegun ObasanjoSalim Salimright to interventionresponsibility to protectcollective security
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Contesting Sovereignty
Power and Practice in Africa and Southeast Asia
 , pp. 103 - 132
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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