AMISOM and the regional construction of a failed state in Somalia
AMISOM and the regional construction of a failed state in Somalia
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非索特派团和索马里失败国家的区域建设
DOI：
10.1093/afraf/ady040
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发表时间：
2019
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影响因子：
2.8
通讯作者：
Fisher J
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作者：
Fisher J
对许多分析人士来说，索马里是典型的“失败国家”，也是自1991年以来多次外部干预的地点。然而，虽然早期干预是由国际行为体设计和指导的，但最近的和平行动是由区域国家领导的。目前的非洲联盟驻索马里使命，非索特派团，被其支持者和资助者称为一个新的“非洲解决方案”，以解决假定的“非洲问题”。本文试图质疑对非索特派团和其他非洲和平行动的分析，这些分析将“国际”方法与“地方”或“非洲”方法相对照，而是将该区域作为一个分析单位。在这样做时，研究报告利用档案和访谈数据，询问区域政治军事精英如何看待索马里、他们在索马里的作用以及自非索特派团成立以来他们希望看到在那里建立哪种政治权威。文章发现，区域精英试图利用非索特派团强加一个特定版本的国家对索马里，新韦伯制度主义理论和自己的国内政治经验的基础上。这不仅意味着拒绝接受索马里政治权威的主要表现形式，而且意味着在该区域将索马里本身建设成一个失败的国家。
Somalia, for many analysts, is the paradigmatic ‘failed state’, as well as the site of numerous external interventions since 1991. However, while early interventions were designed and directed by international actors, more recent peace operations have been led by regional states. The current African Union Mission in Somalia, AMISOM, has been presented by its supporters and financiers as a novel ‘African solution’ to a putative ‘African problem’. This article seeks to challenge analyses of AMISOM and other African peace operations that contrast ‘international’ approaches with ‘local’ or ‘African’ approaches, focusing instead on the region as a unit of analysis. In doing so, the study uses archival and interview data to interrogate how regional politico-military elites have viewed Somalia, their role within it and the kind of political authority they have wished to see established there since the genesis of AMISOM. The article finds that regional elites have sought to use AMISOM to impose a particular version of statehood on Somalia, based in both neo-Weberian institutionalist theory and their own domestic political experiences. This has entailed not only the rejection of central manifestations of Somali political authority but also the regional construction of Somalia itself as a failed state.