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Regional Integration by Military Means: The Case of the East African Standby Force

Author : Thomas Mandrup

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Abstract

The wider Horn of Africa is faced with a conundrum: Is it possible for weak and fragility-prone states to form and create effective regional security institutions? The logical answer would be no, since combining two weak units does not create something strong. Nevertheless, that is what the states in East Africa are attempting to do with the establishment of the EASF, which was declared fully operational in December 2014. The Horn of Africa has been plagued by (proxy) wars, until recently the hostility between Eritrea and Ethiopia, the political volatility of Kenya and Ethiopia, and largely uncontrolled cross-border activities. The contribution shows that despite increased cooperation on regional security, the EASF is for political reasons yet to become an effective regional security management tool.

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Footnotes
1
East Africa is here understood as the members of the East African Standby Force on the Horn and in East Africa, i.e., Somalia, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Sudan and South Sudan, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Kenya, Comoros, and Seychelles. Tanzania, Madagascar, and Mauritius are members of the region but do not take part in the regional security cooperation.
 
2
Currently, the EASF is composed of ten active member states, namely, Burundi, Comoros, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Seychelles, Somalia, Sudan, and Uganda (EASF 2017b).
 
3
To a certain extent, the same could be said about Kenya.
 
4
For further details on these concepts, see Buzan (1991).
 
5
This is of course a very problematic statement, since security relations change over time, especially during times of war, and security relations are very different depending on the level at which they are analyzed.
 
6
The Freedom House verdict is highly problematic for a variety of reasons but is a good indicator of the level of problems and challenges to be found in East Africa.
 
7
In many places, informal structures and actors have taken over where the state is absent.
 
8
In January 2011, the new designation of the regional secretariat was decided. It is now known as EASFCOM (Eastern Africa Standby Force Coordination Mechanism).
 
9
In early 2016, EASF appealed for consultants to help implement the civilian dimension of the ASF.
 
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Metadata
Title
Regional Integration by Military Means: The Case of the East African Standby Force
Author
Thomas Mandrup
Copyright Year
2019
Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Book
Refugees and Forced Migration in the Horn and Eastern Africa

Print ISBN: 978-3-030-03720-8

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-03721-5

Copyright Year: 2019

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03721-5_6