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Evaluating the Effectiveness of the ECOWAS–EU Interregional Partnership on Peace and Security in the Context of the Mali Crisis

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This study attempts to provide an analysis of interregional security cooperation between Western Africa and the EU as an external actor. Drawing on an internal and external conceptualisation of effectiveness, it focuses specifically on the joint efforts by the EU and ECOWAS in Mali. The analysis shows that factors such as resource exchange, coherence as well as coordination processes might constitute conducive conditions for effective interregional interaction. In addition, potentially constraining factors such as the (insufficient) capacities of the partners, an ill-developed resource exchange between them, and paucity of coordination both among external actors and regional partners hampered the effectiveness of ECOWAS-EU cooperation in Mali.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    The AU recognises eight RECs in Africa representing different (sub)regions: the Arab Maghreb Union (AMU), the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), the Community of Sahel–Saharan States (CEN–SAD), the East African Community (EAC), the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS), the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) and the Southern African Development Community (SADC).

  2. 2.

    Pan-Africanism has been described as “an ideology that is difficult to define because of its amorphous character, but which involves at least an aspiration to realize or recapture the dignity, freedom, autonomy and (or unity of Africans and/or of people of African descent” (Walraven, 1999: xvii).

  3. 3.

    There are also other organisations focusing on issues of peace and security. For instance, the Multi-National Joint Task Force (MNJTF) under the umbrella of the Lake Chad Basin Commission (LCBC). The MNJTF has been formed in particular to fight the uprising of Boko Haram in the Lake Chad region and constitutes another security actor in West Africa. With reference to the age of the organisation, the relations between the MNJTF and the EU are rather weakly developed so far.

  4. 4.

    For instance, the study of Aggarwal and Kwei on Asia–Pacific economic cooperation (2006) or the study of Ferabolli who focuses on the Arab-South American relations (2016).

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