Conclusion

Abstract

The final chapter provides a nuanced conclusion of this treatise. In its broadest sense, the chapter concludes that the AU’s agency slack is, first and foremost, a response to the internal pressures exerted by a huge, complex and constitutively irreconcilable regional security order. In this instance African shortcomings compromise its own agency in international politics. Those pressures are also a limiting factor in the AU’s ability to project intentionality and configurative power in international affairs. It also concludes that the AU’s agency slack is also a response to the interconnectedness of African states to imperialism which grossly affects African multilateralism considering the partnerships. This narrative also implies that Africa’s continuing positionality in the subaltern place in international politics drives it into a state of perennial agency slack.