TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gwatiwa,Tshepo
TI  - The African Union and African agency in international politics
SN  - 9783030878078
U1  - 327.6 
PY  - 2022///
CY  - Cham, Switzerland
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - African Union
KW  - African cooperation
KW  - Africa
KW  - Foreign relations
N2  - "This book examines the role of the African Union in relation to African agency in international politics. It examines the manner and extent to which the African Union exercises two forms of agency slack - shirking and slippage - in its strategic and collaborative partnerships. The author focuses on four major AU security partnerships with the European Union, NATO, the United Nations and US AFRICOM. The books examines African agency in each partnership by exploring the politics and dynamics of each partnership in different aspects : the multilevel engagement, institutionalisation, resource contribution and disbursement, as well as preference linkage. It specifically does that by examining African ownership and leadership in all of these aspects. The book highlights the role of agency slack as a survival strategy to escape from the AU's subaltern position in international politics. It designates the partnership with teh European Union as emblematic of African agency; while the others exhibit different forms of agency slack. Partnerships with NATO and the United Nations exhibit shirking, while that with the US AFRICOM exhibits slippage."
ER  -