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This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the African Union during the organization's first ten years of existence. It takes the reader through the various intergovernmental processes that preceded and followed the establishment of the Union and through the workings of key organs such as the Assembly of Heads of State, the Council of Ministers, the Pan African Parliament and the Commission. The study argues that the African Union represented a rational choice of its member states, who saw it as a means to advancing their individual and collective preferences for liberation, peace and security, good governance and socio-economic development. It maintains that the African Union did not only make marked progress in a number of areas; the Union also established norms that had transformational effects on military and political elites at country and regional levels. However, like in most agent-principal relations, the autonomy of the Union was limited in many ways, and this affected the Union's effectiveness in such areas as human and socio-economic development, as well as in sustaining peace support operations. At a more general level, the study argues that the African Union offers clear insights into integration as a multidimensional process that no single theoretical tradition can explain in a comprehensive manner. The author's response to such a theoretical limitation is 'fusionism', an integrated approach that amalgamates various analytical traditions in order to provide a better explanation of the processes of international integration.

AFRICAN UNION

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African Union --- Africa --- Politics and government --- Government --- Africa - Politics and government - 1960 --- -Government --- -African Union. --- AU (African Union) --- Union africaine --- União Africana --- UA (Union africaine) --- Ittiḥād al-Ifrīqī --- Ittiḥād al-Afrīqī --- Afrikan Union --- Organization of African Unity --- -LAW --- Politics and government. --- International. --- African Union. --- Since 1960 --- LAW

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National security --- African cooperation. --- Economic development --- African Union --- History. --- Africa --- Politics and government --- Economic integration.

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La quatrième de couverture indique : "L'émission d'un mandat d'arrêt par un juge d'instruction espagnol visant 40 militaires rwandais a provoqué une campagne généralisée des chefs d'Etats africains, à partir de 2008, contre ce qu'ils qualifient d'"utilisation abusive et politique" de la compétence universelle. De même, les situations soudanaise et libyenne déférées par le Conseil de sécurité à la CPI, ainsi que l'auto-saisine du procureur de cette Cour dans la situation du Kenya, en plus du contexte mondial qui les caractérise, a conduit l'Union Africaine (UA) à soupçonner la justice pénale internationale d'impartialité et de séléctivité. Ces événements ont créé un climat de méfiance et de réticence, et provoqué un mouvement collectif de retrait progressif des Etats africains des mécanismes universels de justice pénale internationale. Mais au-delà de ces faits, quelles sont les motivations profondes qui poussent les Etats africains à vouloir se retirer de ces mécanismes de justice, quelles sont les solutions palliatives envisagées ? Tel est le questionnement qui a conduit à cette étude et a permis de déterminer les facteurs manifestes et latens à l'origine du retrait progressif de ces Etats de la CPI et leur soulèvement collectif contre l'application du principe de compétence universelle, et à analyser les solutions de substitutions qu'ils proposent."

International criminal courts --- International criminal law --- Tribunaux criminels internationaux --- Droit international pénal --- International Criminal Court. --- African Union

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This is the sixth edition of the Compendium of key human rights documents of the African Union updated to August 2016. This compendium contains documents on human rights adopted under the auspices of the African Union (AU) and its predecessor, the Organization of African Unity (OAU), including documents adopted by the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights and the African Committee on the Rights and Welfare of the Child. Due to space constraints only extracts are reprinted of many of the documents. This compendium is by no means comprehensive but includes some key documents of relevance for students of the African human rights system and others interested in its functioning. Extracts from documents related to the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) and the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) reprinted in previous editions of this compendium have been left out of this edition. For comprehensive coverage of human rights law in Africa, see www.chr.up.ac.za and the web sites listed at the end of this compendium. The assistance of Frans Viljoen and Lizette Hermann in preparing this edition of the compendium and the financial support of the Norwegian government for its printing is gratefully acknowledged. About the editors: Christof Heyns is Director, Institute for International and Comparative Law in Africa, University of Pretoria. Magnus Killander is a researcher at the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria and is also the co-editor of African Human Rights Law Reports.

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