Since the 1990s, ECOWAS has stepped into previously uncharted waters of peacekeeping and peace enforcement in intra-state civil wars in its back yard by violating the sacrosanct principles of sovereignty and non-intervention in domestic affairs of states. To this end, it has established a robust security structure and adopted norms and procedures. Thus, ECOWAS security architecture has become an alternative to traditional UN-led peacekeeping missions. And yet this pioneering experiment has faced theoretical and empirical challenges. The aim of this book is to invigorate the current discussion...
Since the 1990s, ECOWAS has stepped into previously uncharted waters of peacekeeping and peace enforcement in intra-state civil wars in its back yard ...