Challenging the United Nations Peace and Security Agenda in Africa

This book explores the United Nations peacemaking, peacekeeping, peace-building, and post-conflict reconstruction efforts in Africa from 1960 to 2021, discussing how resource-rich, conflict-ridden states have become easy targets for capitalists, terrorists, and transnational crime. It argues that endogenous economic growth factors can achieve peace and security and meet the Global Sustainable Development Goals, but that multilateral engagement involves Africas 55 states and the African Unions three major pillars.

Format: Hardback
Length: 397 pages
Publication date: 30 September 2021
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland AG

This comprehensive volume explores the United Nations peacemaking, peacekeeping, peace-building, and post-conflict reconstruction efforts in Africa from 1960 to 2021. It provides a succinct discussion of historic and contemporary peace, security, and economic engagements within 18 countries spanning eight African regions: the Great Lakes, the Economic Community of Central African States, East Africa, the Horn of Africa, North Africa, the Sahel Region, West Africa, and Southern Africa. The book develops a neo-realist and imperialist critique that examines how resource-rich, conflict-ridden states have become easy targets for capitalists, terrorists, and transnational crime, aligned to geostrategic parochial interests.

Critically argued, the book posits that endogenous economic growth factors, if applied effectively, can achieve both peace and security and meet the Global Sustainable Development Goals. Such efforts require constructive engagement with the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council: China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States. However, the book contends that the cornerstone of multilateral engagement involves Africas 55 states and the African Unions three major pillars: the Peace and Security Council, the African Governance Architecture, and the Post-Conflict Reconstruction Development Centre, which have the ability to move resource-rich, conflict-ridden states out of transnational crime and poverty.

This book offers a comprehensive analysis of contemporary African diplomacy and provides a compelling critique of UN peacekeeping efforts in Africa, which will be of interest to scholars, researchers, and policymakers in international relations, peace and conflict studies, and African politics.

Weight: 650g
Dimension: 154 x 216 x 31 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783030835224
Edition number: 1st ed. 2022