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Navigating Rivalries: Prospects for Coexistence between ECOWAS and AES in West Africa

Kohnert, Dirk - 2024

The Alliance of Sahel States (AES), created in September 2023 by the three military governments of Mali, Niger and … Sahel. First, they are the centre of the Sahel and most vulnerable to jihadism. They figure among the least developed … Sahel, with an average of six children per woman. The creation of the AES came amid a decade of escalating unrest in the …

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Expanding Horizons: Iran's Strategic Engagements in Sub-Saharan Africa - Insights from South Africa, Nigeria, and Tanzania

Kohnert, Dirk - 2024

solidarity with the Palestinian cause. Tehran expanded its influence in the Sahel region, taking advantage of self-serving French … eigennützige französische Afrikapolitik und die Politik anderer westlicher Mächte in Westafrika aus, um Kontakte zu den …

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Democratisation via elections in an African 'narco state'? The case of Guinea-Bissau

Kohnert, Dirk - 2010

Recent development cooperation with Guinea-Bissau, focusing on good governance, statebuilding and conflict prevention, did not contribute to democratization nor to the stabilization of volatile political, military and economic structures. The portrayal of Guinea- Bissau as a failed...

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Die UEMOA und die CFA-Zone: Eine neue Kooperations-Kultur im frankophonen Afrika?

Kohnert, Dirk - In: Regionale Integration – Neue Dynamiken in Afrika, …, (pp. 115-136). 2005

The WAEMU and the Franc CFA-Zone: A new culture of co-operation in Francophone Africa? The CFA-zone is basically composed of two sub-zones, characterised by significant structural economic and political differences within and between its member countries: the West African Economic and Monetary...

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African Migration to Europe: Obscured Responsibilities and Common Misconceptions

Kohnert, Dirk - 2007

The number of migrants from conflict regions in Africa has been increasing dramatically. The European Union shares dual responsibility for the continuing migration pressure: First, because it fostered over decades corrupt and autocratic regimes with dire disregard to principles of 'good...

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African migration to Europe : obscured responsibilities and common misconceptions

Kohnert, Dirk - 2007

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African migration to Europe : obscured responsibilities and common misconceptions

Kohnert, Dirk - 2007

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African agency and EU- African Economic Partnership Agreements

Kohnert, Dirk - 2014

This article provides a review of literature on African Agency and the drivers of change within EU–African trade politics in negotiations on Economic Partnership Agreements between the European Union and African governments.

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Togo : thorny transitions and misguided aid at the roots of economic misery

Kohnert, Dirk - 2011

The parliamentary elections of October 2007, the first free Togolese elections since decades, were meant to correct at least partially the rigged presidential elections of 2005. Western donors considered it as a litmus test of despotic African regimes' propensity to change towards...

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The long-term effects of development aid : empirical studies in rural West Africa

Bierschenk, Thomas; Elwert, Georg; Kohnert, Dirk - 1993

This article is based on field studies in rural West Africa. It concentrates on the socio-structural effects of development aid in the long run, in contrast to numerous available evaluation reports on the short-run effects of development projects. The study reveals that superficial...

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