Although peace and security are likely to remain a priority in AU-EU cooperation given the magnitude of related challenges linking…
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AU-EU Cooperation: Beyond Business as Usual?
On the eve of its third decade, AU-EU cooperation is at the crossroads–having to choose between perpetuating ineffective practices of…
EU-AU Trade and Development Partnership: Beyond the Aid Trap
With over two decades of EU-AU trade and development cooperation, there is a need for a renewed commitment to overcome…
Editorial: Special Issue on AU-EU Partnership
This Special Issue brings together the foregoing research findings, offering a timely snapshot of the state of AU-EU cooperation along…
Anticipating the new awful: Covid-19 and South Africa’s fragile peace
The coronavirus and lockdown measures have had a crippling effect on the South African economy and her people. The pandemic…
Podcast: Monde Muyangwa of the Wilson Center Africa Program
"I think that if peace is to be sustainable, it has to be locally owned. It cannot be driven from…
Samir Amin: The Exit of an Intellectual Giant
Even when Marxism became unpopular after the collapse of the Berlin Wall and the fall of the Soviet Union and…
Eastern Nile Cooperation at a Crossroads: The Costs of Missing Another Opportunity
“The Nile constitutes a common destiny; we either sink or swim together, and we chose to swim together.” Ethiopia’s Former…
Development and Statebuilding at the Cost of Peacebuilding? The Case of the Lower Omo Valley, Ethiopia
Building state institutions, providing services, and promoting economic development in conflict-affected regions are usually considered integral to peacebuilding. This essay…
Insecurity, Conflict, and Militancy in the Maghreb and Sahel Regions
Throughout the Maghreb and Sahel regions of Africa, many communities are struggling under the strain of new patterns of violence…