Africa’s Emerging Regional Security Culture and the Intervention in Libya

  • Reinold T
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Abstract

Just as nation-states are imagined communities (Anderson 1983), so are regions. A hitherto under-researched dimension of imagining regions as communities is the construction of regional security cultures. These are dynamic artifacts of human practice that are constantly evolving as the local, national, regional and global normative contexts change. Consequently, with the concept of ‘security’ itself currently undergoing reinterpretation — with global discourses about the moral purpose of the state increasingly pointing to the protection of human security as the state’s primary raison d’être — regional security cultures are expected to mirror this normative shift in their own constitutive norms and practices. Sama seperti negara-bangsa adalah komunitas yang dibayangkan (Anderson 1983), begitu juga daerah. Dimensi yang selama ini kurang diteliti dari membayangkan daerah sebagai komunitas adalah konstruksi budaya keamanan regional. Ini adalah artefak dinamis dari praktik manusia yang terus berkembang seiring dengan perubahan konteks normatif lokal, nasional, regional, dan global. Akibatnya, dengan konsep 'keamanan' itu sendiri yang saat ini mengalami reinterpretasi — dengan wacana global tentang tujuan moral negara semakin mengarah pada perlindungan keamanan manusia sebagai raison d'être utama negara — budaya keamanan regional diharapkan mencerminkan normatif ini. pergeseran norma dan praktik konstitutif mereka sendiri.

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Reinold, T. (2013). Africa’s Emerging Regional Security Culture and the Intervention in Libya. In Libya, the Responsibility to Protect and the Future of Humanitarian Intervention (pp. 83–109). Palgrave Macmillan UK. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137273956_5

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