SOVEREIGNTY OF STATES IN THE POST COLD WAR ERA: IMPLICATIONS FOR SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA

dc.creator	Thomas Jørgenson
dc.date	2012-02-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-07-20T20:08:07Z
dc.date.available	2015-07-20T20:08:07Z
dc.identifier	10.5787/32-1-131
dc.identifier	2224-0020
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/e095fe8a29c4442a8ccf0339a16d01c1
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/7989
dc.identifier.uri	https://doaj.org/article/e095fe8a29c4442a8ccf0339a16d01c1
dc.description	The United Nations (UN) was founded to ‘to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war’.1 However, the post-independence history of sub-Saharan Africa has demonstrated that the international community, or lack of an international society, has so far been unable to protect the African continent from this ‘scourge’, or indeed from itself. A number of reasons may be suggested for this, including the organisation of the international community into a number of sovereign independent states, the inability of some of these territorial sovereignties to act and function as states, the formal political and economic crisis and marginalisation of especially sub-Saharan Africa, and finally the history of the continent. Accordingly, this article has two major objectives. The article will illustrate how state failure and intrastate asymmetric warfare alters and undermines the Westphalian concept of state in sub-Saharan Africa. Furthermore it attempts to show that the way in which the concept of ‘national sovereignty’ is understood is changing, and that this might have instrumental implications for future interstate relations in sub-Saharan Africa.
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	University of Stellenbosch. Faculty of Military Science (Military Academy)
dc.relation	http://scientiamilitaria.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/131
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/2224-0020
dc.source	Scientia Militaria : South African Journal of Military Studies, Vol 32, Iss 1 (2012)
dc.subject	United Nations
dc.subject	post-independence history of sub-Saharan Africa
dc.subject	Westphalian concept
dc.subject	Military Science
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dc.subject	DOAJ:Military Science
dc.subject	DOAJ:Technology and Engineering
dc.subject	Military Science
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dc.subject	DOAJ:Military Science
dc.subject	DOAJ:Technology and Engineering
dc.subject	Military Science
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dc.subject	Military Science
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dc.title	SOVEREIGNTY OF STATES IN THE POST COLD WAR ERA: IMPLICATIONS FOR SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA
dc.type	Article