Explaining the clash and accommodation of interests of major actors in the creation of the African Union |
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| Authors: | Tieku Thomas Kwasi |
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| Institution: | Thomas Kwasi Tieku is a Ph.D candidate in International Relations at the University of Toronto, Canada. In collaboration with Kristiana Powell of the North-South Institute/Project Ploughshares and Charles Burton of Brock University, he recently completed a study on the African Union for the Canadian government. He is grateful to Jeffrey Kopstein, Dickson Eyoh, Robert Matthews, Richard Sandbrook, Erin Norman Hannah and Anil Mathew Varughese for helpful comments on earlier versions of this article. The usual disclaimers apply |
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| Abstract: | The rapid creation of the African Union (AU) has been describedas one of the most puzzling events in interstate co-operationin contemporary Africa. While studies published so far on thesubject express surprise at the AU's speedy creation, none makesany attempt to explain the clash of interests and ideas of thekey actors and how they were accommodated in order to createthe AU. This article attempts to fill this gap by exploringthe interests and ideas that drove the AU process. It arguesthat the introduction at the Algiers summit in 1999 of two separatereform packages that were meant to reform the OAU in line withthe foreign policy interests of Nigeria and South Africa setin motion the process that eventually led to the creation ofthe AU. |
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