Special Issue on the Evolving Nature of African-Led Peace Support Operations and African Armies
Key Questions • How has the evolution of African-led PSOs on the continent shaped Africa’s security response to insecurity? • How has African-led PSO influenced the identity of African armies and their responses to insecurity in Africa over the last two decades? • Does the experience of African-led PSOs drive military actors' decision-making during times of crisis? What impact (if any) does African-led PSO have on African military professionalism?
Fri, men manipulert? Journalistikk og politikk i Tunisias retrett fra demokratiet
Tunisia var det eneste landet som begynte å utvikle seg som et demokrati etter den arabiske våren. Det ble etablert flere viktige institusjoner for å ivareta en demokratisk utvikling, ikke minst ytringsfrihet og frie medier. I dag glir imidlertid landet tilbake mot autokrati. Hva skjedde, og hvilken rolle spiller media og journalistikk i Tunisias sviktende demokrati?
Globale Storbritannia i nord
‘Globale Storbritannia’ er i ferd med å få form og innhold også i sikkerhets- og forsvarspolitikken. ...
Ad hoc coalitions in global governance: short-notice, task- and time-specific cooperation
Ad hoc coalitions (AHCs) are an indispensable but scantly conceptualized part of global governance. In recent years, several typologies and classifications of global governance arrangements have been provided, mostly differentiating them based on their organizational design features of degree of formality and membership composition. These do not capture AHCs and the role they play in global governance. In this article, we not only provide a conceptualization of AHCs, but also propose ways in which AHCs fit within the broader global governance architecture. We argue that what sets AHCs apart is not so much their (in)formality or membership, but rather their short-notice creation, their task-specific purpose and their temporarily circumscribed existence. We therefore define AHCs as autonomous arrangements with a task-specific mandate established at short notice for a limited time frame. We then develop a research agenda on the nature and future of AHCs, including their short- and long-term relationship with other multilateral arrangements in the global governance architecture. This is important, as we do yet not know how AHCs complement, compete and impact on international organizations and international crisis response.
Hvorfor er jihadistiske ideer så motstandsdyktige?
Hvordan har Sayyid Qutbs bok 'Milestones' inspirert radikal ungdom og jihadistgrupper over hele verden?
Svein Efjestad
Svein Efjestad ble uteksaminert fra Universitetet i Oslo i 1980 (Statsvitenskap, internasjonal rett og historie). Han hadde stipend ved Norsk Uten...
A quest to win the hearts and minds: Assessing the Effectiveness of the Multinational Joint Task Force
In January 2015, the African Union (AU) authorised the Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF) as a regional security arrangement of the Lake Chad Basin Commission (LCBC) to deal with the threat of Boko Haram (BH) in the Lake Chad region. Its mandate includes the responsibility of ensuring a safe and secure environment in the areas affected by the BH insurgency, reducing violent attacks against civilians, facilitating stabilisation programmes in the Lake Chad region, facilitating humanitarian operations and the provision of assistance to affected populations. To achieve its mandate, the MNJTF undertakes both kinetic and non-kinetic operations. Its mandate has been renewed yearly since 2015, and in December 2022, the AU renewed its mandate for another 12 months. This report assesses the effectiveness of the MNJTF in delivering on its three mandate priorities to generate recommendations for the enhancement of the MNJTF´s overall effectiveness.