Africa and peacekeeping 60 years on

Is the regionalization of peacekeeping capable of meeting the challenges of integration in Africa, despite the hierarchical positions of its players? This book attempts to answer this question through a socio-historical approach. The regionalization of peacekeeping is no accident of history. It is the product of a historical and conjunctural process of routinization and bricolage in the practice of peacekeeping since the years of independence. As a routinized socio-historical process, the regionalization of peacekeeping is part of a concrete institutional cross-fertilization that makes its formation both endogenous African dynamics and exogenous dynamics imported into the practice of peacekeeping in Africa. In fact, the regionalization of peacekeeping is one of the ways in which peacekeeping in Africa can be given a certain vigor, and thus a certain strategic emancipation of Africa in terms of security.