African Crisis Response Initiative and the New African Security (Dis)Order

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Title:	African Crisis Response Initiative and the New African Security (Dis)Order
Author:	Aning, Emmanuel K.
Year:	2001
Periodical:	African Journal of Political Science (ISSN 1027-0353)
Volume:	6
Issue:	1
Period:	June
Pages:	43-67
Language:	English
Notes:	biblio. refs.
Geographic terms:	Africa United States
Subjects:	foreign policy military intervention international relations Military, Defense and Arms civil wars Conflict management African Crisis Response Initiative Military aid national security
External link:	http://digital.lib.msu.edu/projects/africanjournals/html/itemdetail.cfm?recordID=367
Abstract:	This article examines the role of the United States in post-Cold War African security issues in the 1990s. It analyses the impact of the African Crisis Response Initiative (ACRI) and the reactions to ACRI from the continent - from the OAU, ECOWAS and influential countries like Nigeria - given the efforts being made by African governments to grapple with their own security concerns. It concludes with a tentative assessment of the possibilities for ACRI's effectiveness and its prospects for achieving credibility among African governments and civil society. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract]