ECOWAS and Regional Peacekeeping Integration in West Africa: Lessons for the Future.
During the 1990s, West Africa was ravaged by conflicts that required ECOWAS to intervene by sending a regional military force, ECOMOG, into Liberia and Sierra Leone. This paper analyzes the lessons learned from ECOWAS's military intervention in Liberia and Sierra Leone. It argues that, while ECOMOG...
| Publicado en: | Africa Today Vol. 57; no. 2; pp. 3 - 25 |
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Indiana University Press
Winter 2010
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