Commentaries
Closing the AI Gap with Africa
As countries across the globe are grappling with the emergence of AI, Europe is presented an opportunity to enhance its AI cooperation with African countries, addressing concerns about a looming […]
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Publications
External publications
Three Factors are Behind the Recent Wave of Coups in Africa
Over the past few years, observers of African politics have grown used to images of badly lit TV studios, filled with officers in camouflage uniforms declaring an imminent take-over of […]
External publications
Relations troublées : l’Union africaine et la CEDEAO au milieu d’une épidémie de coups d’État
En août 2020, l’Afrique a connu le début d’une nouvelle vague de coups d’État sur le continent alors que le président du Mali a été renversé par un colonel des […]
External publications
Contagious Coups in Africa? History of Civil–Military Imbalance
Africa has seen 16 coup attempts in less than 4 years, 9 of which have been successful. This implies an increase in both the number of coup attempts and their […]
Commentaries
Security Collaboration between Europe and Africa in an Age of Amorality and Impunity
A Global Power Competition drives different trends, two of which affect not only relations between global powers, but which colour current international relations more broadly: amorality and impunity. *****
External publications
Peacekeeping Armies: How The Politics of Peace Operations Shape Military Organizations
Since the early 1990s fewer United Nations peacekeepers have come from western, democratic and richer states, compared to poorer, more autocratic and often unstable countries in Africa and Asia. A […]