Towards an African Peace and Security Regime

Towards an African Peace and Security Regime: Continental embeddedness transnational linkages strategic relevance provides an informed and critical reflection on the adequacy of the emerging African Peace and Security Architecture (APSA) to the medium- and long-term challenges and opportunities of conflict prevention management and resolution in Africa. Complementary to the editors’ Africa’s New Peace and Security Architecture: Implementing norms institutionalising solutions (Ashgate 2010) this volume revolves around three main areas of focus: the continental ’embeddedness’ of norms values and processes required for the gradual coming into shape of the African peace and security regime; its transnational linkages as well as the wider collective security environment; and the empirical analysis of the connections between the continental level and the regional economic communities with case-studies on ECOWAS SADC and COMESA.