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Regional and sub-regional organizations and peacekeeping in Africa
Dušková, Kateřina ; Ludvík, Zdeněk (advisor) ; Karásek, Tomáš (referee)
The thesis deals with evaluation of missions lead by regional and sub-regional organizations in Africa. The cases for the study are the ECOMICI mission in Ivory Coast lead by the ECOWAS and the AMIS mission lead by the AU. The regional peacekeeping operations developed mainly the during the 1990's. Peacekeeping is the dynamic field and the evaluation of outcomes is important for future missions. The evaluation framework used fot this study was designed by Diehl and Druckman and described in their book The evaluation of peace operations. The thesis is structured into the four main parts, In hte first part of the study there is an introduction into the field of peace operation, the regional organisations and their security frameworks and also the peacekeeping evaluation field. In the second part the analytic framework for the evaluation is described, the third part deals with the evalution of the two missions, ECOMICI and AMIS and last part is devoted to conclusions. By analysing these two operations we are able to conclude if the regional organisations are able to deploy peacekeeping missions, if they are successful and what are the main challenges and advantages for the regional peacekeeping. Keywords peacekeeping, evaluation, AMIS, ECOMICI, regional organisation, sub- regional organisation,...
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Analysis of selected demographic and economic indicators of the ECOWAS countries
Morávková, Stanislava
The topic the thesis Analysis of selected demographic and economic indicators of the ECOWAS countries is analysis of the selected economic and demographic indicators in the countries of Economic Community of West African States over the period 2010 - 2014. The main aim is to find relationship between economic growth and demography. Thesis is divided into two parts. The theoretical part provides the overview of the region, description of demography, economic growth and their mutual relationship as well as description of the used methods. The analytical part is focused on the construction of the composite indicators and the canonical correlation analysis.
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Strategic policy reactions to the global financial crisis by selected states in the ECOWAS region
Addae, Asamoah Kojo
The purpose of this Master’s Thesis is to evaluate the economies of selected ECOWAS members – Ghana and Nigeria – to find out how some of their economic indicators perform when shocks such as monetary, supply, demand and external shocks are applied. This will enable us to gauge their policy responses to a shock such as occurred during the Global Financial Crisis. The work is divided into two parts, namely the theoretical aspect and the quantitative aspect. The theoretical aspect looks at other authors who have discussed similar issues and the quantitative portion deals with econometric models that analysed data pulled from the economic indicators of both countries. The results are then discussed and a conclusion is arrived at.
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Maintaining the peace and security by regional arrangements in Africa (focusing on peace-keeping operations)
Fencl, Ivan ; Faix, Martin (advisor) ; Beránek, Milan (referee)
Maintaining the peace and security by regional arrangements in Africa (focusing on peace-keeping operations) Abstract The present thesis focuses on the issue of peace-keeping operations maintained by the regional and sub-regional organizations in Africa, namely African Union and ECOWAS. The main statement of the thesis is the following: The United Nations is unable to react effectively to threats to international peace and security, especially in cases of mass violations of human rights in intrastate conflicts, that have severe impact on particular region including refugee crisis or spreading the conflict to other states of the region. In the thesis, particular instruments of the above-mentioned international organizations, that create the framework for operations for maintaining peace and security in the region, are described. Attention is also paid to the relevant bodies of the African union and ECOWAS such as Peace and security council of the AU or African standby force. The thesis elaborates on problematic or controversial issues from international law perspective. In the first place, the concept of humanitarian intervention and related concept of responsibility to protect is underlined. It is demonstrated that African Union and ECOWAS have significant contribution to these concepts when implementing...
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Togo in ECOWAS and Slovakia in the EU: Comparison of Economic Development
Mihaldová, Veronika ; Cahlík, Tomáš (advisor) ; Ryska, Pavel (referee)
This bachelor thesis examines the economic development of Economic Community of West African States and the European Union. It analysis and compares these institutions in the first place. Then, it analysis the corresponding monetary union, the West African Economic and Monetary Union and the Economic Monetary Union. On the basis of theoretical background the focus is then put onto the comparison of economic development of Togo and Slovakia, two countries of which one represents ECOWAS and the WAEMU, and, on the contrary, the second one the EU and the EMU. From the empirical perspective, the thesis applies the econometric analysis of panel data consisting of 30 countries that are observed for the period of 10 years, from 2007 to 2016. Standard panel data methods are tested along with the dynamic panel data method and then compared. Consequently, the main aim of the thesis and its empirical part is to apply already developed econometric models, originally intended for different group of countries, on the data to see whether they can be used to explain economic development of ECOWAS and the EU. Keywords Togo, ECOWAS, Slovakia, European Union, comparative economics, economic develop- ment, analysis
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Regional and sub-regional organizations and peacekeeping in Africa
Dušková, Kateřina ; Ludvík, Zdeněk (advisor) ; Karásek, Tomáš (referee)
The thesis deals with evaluation of missions lead by regional and sub-regional organizations in Africa. The cases for the study are the ECOMICI mission in Ivory Coast lead by the ECOWAS and the AMIS mission lead by the AU. The regional peacekeeping operations developed mainly the during the 1990's. Peacekeeping is the dynamic field and the evaluation of outcomes is important for future missions. The evaluation framework used fot this study was designed by Diehl and Druckman and described in their book The evaluation of peace operations. The thesis is structured into the four main parts, In hte first part of the study there is an introduction into the field of peace operation, the regional organisations and their security frameworks and also the peacekeeping evaluation field. In the second part the analytic framework for the evaluation is described, the third part deals with the evalution of the two missions, ECOMICI and AMIS and last part is devoted to conclusions. By analysing these two operations we are able to conclude if the regional organisations are able to deploy peacekeeping missions, if they are successful and what are the main challenges and advantages for the regional peacekeeping. Keywords peacekeeping, evaluation, AMIS, ECOMICI, regional organisation, sub- regional organisation,...
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Cooperation between the UN and regional African organizations phenomenon: Peacekeeping mission
Suchardová, Hana ; Bureš, Oldřich (advisor) ; Werkman, Kateřina (referee)
SUCHARODVA, Hana. Fenomén spolupráce OSN a regionálních afrických organizací: Evaluace peacekeepingových misí, Praha: Karlova universita, Fakulta sociálních věd, Ústav politologických studií, 2011. 138. Vedoucí diplomové práce Oldřich Bureš, PhD Summary Occurrence of conflict in unstable region is one of the biggest threats of current international system and states. One of the mechanism how to prevent the spread of the conflict is the system of multilateral cooperation. Peacekeeping operations are one of the instruments for conflict settlement. Beside the system of United Nations in past years occurs another structure that could be used for peacekeeping missions. For example we can use regional organizations. Many literatures is focused on UN system and its work, fewer of them are concerning the fact of regional organization and just few of them are related to the factor of cooperation between UN and regional organizations. This is the vacancy these papers want to address. Cooperation is the main factor studying in this thesis. To be able to analyze the factor of cooperation we have to take in consideration several different fields of international relations. First of all it is the theory of international relations. To facilitate the conclusions theories are divided into traditional and current theories...
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ECOWAS - Origin, Progress and Prospects
Novotná, Lenka ; De Castro, Tereza (advisor) ; Fialová, Barbora (referee)
This thesis discusses the Economic Community of West African States, its members and its influence in the region of West Africa. Describes the history of the region, geographic and demographic characteristics of West Africa and foremost ECOWAS. The aim is to introduce the formation - its origin, institutions, regional integrations within this formation, macroeconomic indicators, intra-trade and its role in international trade. It also examines whether the community is currently effective and suggests the future for this Community.
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The Role of Nigeria in Integration processes in Africa
Akwari, Henry Onyemaechi
Regional integration such as ECOWAS is believed to be an important element to stimulate trade, which could lead to economic growth and development for countries in this regional group. Despite the efforts made at creating this regional group in West Africa, the benefits from intra regional trade have been unsatisfactory. The study examined the role of Nigeria in the integration processes in Africa and to quantify the impact of this regional group on trade and economic performance in Nigeria. Cross sectional time series data for 17 years from 1996 to 2012 were analysed using an augmented (or extended) gravity equation. Results show that being in ECOWAS has contributed very little to trade and economic performance in Nigeria. Lack of political will to implement treaty provisions, poor infrastructure, non diversification of individual countries' economies among other have been identified as the problem causing the very low level of intra regional trade in ECOWAS. There are potential gains to be made in ECOWAS including Nigeria if significant effort are made to implement policy recommendations
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