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Title:Explaining the Clash and Accommodation of Interests of Major Actors in the Creation of the African Union
Author:Tieku, Thomas KwasiISNI
Year:2004
Periodical:African Affairs: The Journal of the Royal African Society
Volume:103
Issue:411
Period:April
Pages:249-267
Language:English
Geographic term:Africa
Subjects:African Union
African organizations
Politics and Government
Inter-African Relations
international relations
External link:https://www.jstor.org/stable/3518611
Abstract:The rapid creation of the African Union (AU) has been described as one of the most puzzling events in inter-State cooperation in contemporary Africa. While studies published so far on the subject express surprise at the AU's speedy creation, none makes any attempt to explain the clash of interests and ideas of the key actors and how they were accommodated in order to create the AU. This article attempts to fill this gap by exploring the interests and ideas that drove the AU process. It argues that the introduction at the Algiers summit in 1999 of two separate reform packages that were meant to reform the OAU in line with the foreign policy interests of Nigeria and South Africa set in motion the process that eventually led to the creation of the AU. Notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract]
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