A decade of African Peace and Security Architecture

International Affairs

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 89-109

  Vines, Alex ^a  

^a Chatham House ^*  (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84872435449     PISSN: 00205850     EISSN: 14682346     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-2346.12006     Document Type: Article

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5. Also, the initiators of continental projects such as the New Partnership for Africa's Development and the African Peer Review Mechanism, among them Thabo Mbeki of South Africa, Abdoulaye Wade of Senegal and Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria, are no longer in office as national presidents, and their successors lack the visionary drive for a pan-African project.
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