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Chapter 3 - From the Local to the Global

The Connection between the Domestic and the International

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 January 2022

Jonathan Fisher
Affiliation:
University of Birmingham
Nina Wilén
Affiliation:
Lunds Universitet, Sweden
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This chapter unpacks the critical relationship between African peacekeeping and the continent’s international relations, tracing peacekeeping’s evolution from the periphery to the heart of many bilateral and multilateral relationships. In the aftermath of the failed 1993 UN/US-led intervention in Somalia and 1994 Rwandan genocide, the authors argue, Western powers sought to disengage from direct military involvement on the continent, increasingly relying on African states and militaries to provide ‘African solutions to African problems’. This dynamic has evolved into Western (and, increasingly, Chinese and Russian) underwriting of African peacekeeping missions, from Somalia to the DRC, and the growing subsidising of African security states by international partners. The chapter examines this development and how it has enabled a range of African governments, from Chad to Ethiopia, to carve out greater room for manoeuvre in their (often aid-dependent) relations with international actors. This has, the authors argue, had profound implications for domestic politics in a number of instances.

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African Peacekeeping , pp. 99 - 128
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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