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The Emperor Has No Clothes? The Secondary Role of African Regional Organizations in Recent Armed Conflicts in Africa

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Theodore Christakis*
Affiliation:
Université Grenoble-Alpes (Grenoble, France); Centre for International Security and European Studies (CESICE, Grenoble)

Abstract

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Type
The Changing Role of Regional Organizations in African Peace and Security
Copyright
Copyright © American Society of International Law 2014

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6 See, e.g., Olivier Corten, L’Union Africaine, Une Organisation Régionale Susceptible de S’Emanciper de L’Autorité du Conseil de Sécurité? Opinio Juris et Pratique Récente des Etats (Can the African Union Emancipate Itself Erom the Authority of the Security Council? Opinio Juris and Recent State Practice) (European Society of International Law (ESIL) Conference Paper Series, Vol. 2, No. 1, Paper No. 11, 2012), available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=2193756.

7 See Apuuli, Kasaija Phillip, The African Union’s Notion of “African Solutions to African Problems” and the Crises in Côte d’Ivoire (2010–2011) and Libya (2011), 12 Afr. J. on Conflict Resol. 135 (2012)Google Scholar.

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