Spatializing Practices of Regional Organization, Herpolsheimer..

Taylor & Francis

Spatializing Practices of Regional Organizations during Conflict InterventionThe Politics of ECOWAS and the African Union\nAuthor(s): Jens Herpolsheimer\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367618032, 978-0367618032\nSynopsis\nThis book studies relevant actors and practices of conflict intervention by African regional organizations and their intimate connection to space-making, addressing a major gap regarding what actually happens within and around these organizations. \n\nBased on extensive empirical research, it argues that those intervention practices are essentially spatializing practices, based on particular spatial imaginations, contributing to the continuous construction and formatting of regional spaces as well as to ordering relations between different regional spaces. Analyzing the field of developing practices of conflict intervention by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the Afric.