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WEST AFRICA: From a security complex to a security community

机译：西非：从安全综合体到安全社区

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In the post-Cold World era, West Africa, like most other regions of the world, experienced significant shifts in its approach to, and understanding of security. The outbreak of brutal domestic conflicts in the sub-region and ECOWAS's subsequent deployment of its peacekeeping force, ECOMOG, marked a turning point in the sub-region's attempt to develop a security architecture that began in the 1970s. This paper argues that in the post-Cold War era, West Africa is in the process of evolving from a security complex to a security community. The inter-linked nature of the conflicts in the Mano River basin reinforced the security interdependence of member states of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). These factors, coupled with the close cultural and historical ties, geographical proximity qualifies West Africa as a security complex. The adoption of the ECOWAS Protocol on Conflict Prevention, Management, Resolution and Peacekeeping, the supplementary Protocol on Democracy and Good Governance and the ECOWAS Moratorium on Small Arms and Light Weapons are clearly aimed at the institutionalisation of conflict resolution mechanisms - a move away from the ad hoc approach of the 1990s. If the democratic peace theory holds true (that democracies do not fight each other), one could make the argument that democracies do not harbour dissidents from neighbouring states. Hence, the development and consolidation of a democratic ethos in the sub-region would lead to the eventual development of a security community.
机译：在后冷战时代，西非与世界上大多数其他地区一样，在对安全的态度和理解上发生了重大变化。该分区域爆发了残酷的国内冲突，西非经共体随后部署了其维持和平部队西非监测组，这标志着该分区域试图发展始于1970年代的安全架构的转折点。本文认为，在后冷战时代，西非正处于从安全综合体向安全社区发展的过程中。马诺河流域冲突的相互联系的性质加强了西非国家经济共同体（西非经共体）成员国之间的安全相互依存。这些因素，再加上紧密的文化和历史联系，地理上的相近性使西非成为安全区。 《西非经共体关于预防，管理，解决和维持和平的议定书》，《民主与善政补充议定书》和西非经共体小武器和轻武器暂停议定书的通过显然旨在使解决冲突的机制制度化。 1990年代的临时方案。如果民主和平理论是正确的（民主政体之间不发生冲突），则可以提出这样的论点，即民主政体不包含邻国的异议人士。因此，该次区域民主精神的发展和巩固将导致安全社区的最终发展。

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    《African security review》 |2005年第2期|p.77-83|共7页
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    ALHAJI M S BAH;

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    Peace Missions Programme at the Institute for Security Studies;

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