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The "Clubs of Heads of State" from Below: Local perceptions of the African Union, ECOWAS and their 2014/15 interventions in Burkina Faso
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Hessische Stiftung Friedens- und Konfliktforschung
Abstract This study examines local perceptions of an African regional intervention - by the African Union and ECOWAS in Burkina Faso in 2014/15 - as well as the knowledge about these organisations held by different local actors from various social strata. The study is the result of collaborative and empi... view more
This study examines local perceptions of an African regional intervention - by the African Union and ECOWAS in Burkina Faso in 2014/15 - as well as the knowledge about these organisations held by different local actors from various social strata. The study is the result of collaborative and empirically comprehensive research carried out in the capital and several localities in the country. We show that the two African regional organisations are more locally contested than is depicted in the academic literature and, at the same time, perceived more positively than suggested by the dominant social imaginary of these organisations as "clubs of heads of state".... view less
Keywords
Burkina Faso; French-speaking Africa; West Africa; developing country; African Union; perception
Classification
Political Process, Elections, Political Sociology, Political Culture
Sociology of Developing Countries, Developmental Sociology
Free Keywords
ECOWAS
Document language
English
Publication Year
2022
City
Frankfurt am Main
Page/Pages
29 p.
Series
PRIF Reports, 14
DOI
https://doi.org/10.48809/prifrep2214
ISBN
978-3-946459-83-5
Status
Published Version; reviewed