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De Facto Sovereignty and Multilateral Sanctions for a Return to Constitutional Order in a Context of Regional Armed Conflict: The Case of Mali

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In a globalised and regionalised Africa, governments have transferred part of their sovereignty to international and regional organisations, which have evolved from non-interference to non-indifference in terms of their pan-African values and norms, particularly on peace and security issues. Extensive new prerogatives have been given to multiple regional and international actors to prevent peace and security breaches, including the right to declare sanctions on a member state that threatens to violate their charters and principles. Despite this new African Peace and Security Architecture, we argue through the Malian case that the discourses and sanctions of competent but interlinked organisations such as Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU) and the African Union (AU) can fail to fulfil their goals and can even delegitimise the organisations.

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    Unless otherwise indicated, all quotations from French sources have been translated into English in this chapter.

Abbreviations

APSA:

African Peace and Security Architecture

ECOWAS:

Economic Community of West African States

REC:

Regional Economic Community

CNSP:

Comité National de Salut du Peuple (national committee for the salvation of the people)

ECOMOG:

ECOWAS Ceasefire Monitoring Group

MINUSMA:

Mission Multidimensionnelle Intégrée des Nations Unies pour la Stabilisation au Mali (United Nations integrated multidimensional mission for stabilisation in Mali)

OAU:

Organisation of African Unity

AU:

African Union

WAEMU:

West African Economic and Monetary Union

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Diaby, A., Klingelschmitt, N. (2023). De Facto Sovereignty and Multilateral Sanctions for a Return to Constitutional Order in a Context of Regional Armed Conflict: The Case of Mali. In: Daho, G., Richard, Y. (eds) War, State and Sovereignty. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-33661-4_9

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