Ulf Engel
Biographic Data
| ID | 82184 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ulf Engel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ulf |
| FAMILY NAME | Engel |
| SIGNATURE | ENGEL U |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leipzig University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5557-2757 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 41 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 161 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 38 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Introduction, or: On the Genre of OAU/AU Anniversary Publications, 1963–2023
State Capture in South Africa
African Regional and Inter-Regional Health Governance: Early Responses to the Covid-19 Pandemic by Ecowas and the African Union
The Covid-19 pandemic brings back to the fore traditions of interconnected health governance in Africa, both at regional and inter-regional levels. Using the early pandemic responses of ECOWAS and the African Union as empirical case studies, we reconstruct (1) how already established regional actors in managing pandemics, such as the West African Health Organization (WAHO), are (2) now interacting with a newly established continental institution,…
Peace-building Through Space-making: The Spatializing Effects of the African Union’s Peace and Security Policies
This article is discussing how the peace-building practices of the African Union have distinct ordering and space-making effects. Taking a socio-spatial perspective, it is argued that the peace and security projects through which the African Union, as a spatial entrepreneur, is addressing the scourge of ‘terrorism and violent extremism’ are geared towards (re-)establishing sovereignty that member states have lost in the past over their territorie…
The 2007 African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance: Trying to Make Sense of the Late Ratification of the African Charter and Non-Implementation of Its Compliance Mechanism
In principle, the 2007 African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance (ACDEG) could be a powerful instrument to bring the African Governance Architecture to life and to help ensure that its universal values, including respect for human rights and the rule of law, are implemented across all African Union member states. Yet how serious in reality are the latter on this question? Ratification of the African Charter has taken five years and, …
Peace and security
No doubt, questions of peace and security are extremely relevant and at the heart of public debates in many countries. Today’s concern about the situations in the Middle East, the Sahelo-Saharan region, the Korean peninsula, or the former Soviet territories, as well as terrorist attacks in Europe and elsewhere are cases in point. In the more than 25 years since, peace and security challenges have been redefined beyond traditional topics such as w…
The BRICS
Global politics are said to be changing fundamentally. After the end of the Cold War and a brief subsequent period of United States (US) unilateralism, a multipolar world order in the (re)making is being imagined, in particular since the rise in the real, or perceived, importance of Brazil, Russia, India, and China (the BRICs), and that of other so-called emerging countries. This chapter presents the discourse that has helped the BRICs to come in…
Early warning and conflict prevention
The prominence of conflict prevention as an important practice particularly of the AU and the RECs in Africa reflects the rise of an international norm – in this case, a constitutive norm that creates new actors, interests, identities, or categories of action as opposed to a regulative norm that orders and constrains behaviour. This chapter identifies parallel sites of knowledge production with regard to the emerging norm ‘conflict prevention’. S…
Global challenges
Nowadays, severe problems of mankind are often referred to as ‘global challenges’. The framing of a certain problem as a global challenge takes powerful and resourceful discourse (or norm) entrepreneurs with organizational platforms. This chapter argues that these discourse entrepreneurs have risen disproportionally since the early 1970s, in response to a critical juncture of globalization during which the dominant spatialization of global entang…
Extractive Industries and Changing State Dynamics in Africa: Beyond the Resource Curse
Extractive Industries and Changing State Dynamics in Africa: Beyond the Resource Curse
Knowledge production on conflict early warning at the African Union
How does the African Union (AU) generate knowledge about on-going violent conflict as well as post-conflict situations? This article offers an analysis of the multiple sites and sources in the construction of conflict-related knowledge. It also reflects on the various institutional ways this knowledge is filtered into the activities of a wide range of AU actors, starting with the AU Commission, the AU Commission Chairperson and the Peace and Secu…
The African Exception
Explores the four key dimensions of the conventional wisdom: the exercise of power, agrarian change, economic fundamentals, and international development aid, then discusses five new challenges that Africa has to face: conflict prevention and peace-building, biodiversity, aids/HIV, economies of crime, and belief system.
African Exception
'Under Construction': Governance in Africa's New Violent Social Spaces
This chapter looks at how violent conflict in Africa is commonly interpreted in terms of 'new wars'. It then offers an alternative conceptual reading of the 'new wars' which will enable us to discuss the likely effects, and possible failure, of current policy approaches towards Africa's 'new wars'. The chapter focuses on the historicity of statehood in Africa and develop a typology of the processes which lead to the loss of a state's monopoly of …
African Exception
Africa's New Peace and Security Architecture: Promoting Norms, Institutionalizing Solutions
Zupta's Next Nightmare: The South African Local Government Elections of 3 August 2016
On 3 August 2016 South Africa held its fifth local government elections (LGE) since the end of Apartheid in 1994. Against a backdrop of increasing political frustration with the ruling party's poor performance and continued debates about corruption and cronyism in the highest government circles, the African National Congress (ANC) maintained its dominant position but lost 8 per cent of the aggregate vote (53.91 per cent). The Democratic Alliance …
Imagining, Implementing, and Integrating the African Peace and Security Architecture: The African Union’s Challenges
In 2002 the African Union embarked on an ambitious plan to develop and operationalize a comprehensive African Peace and Security Architecture (APSA). Since then, it has become clear that this is truly a journey in unchartered waters, with little in the sense of precedent and off-the-shelf blueprints in Africa or elsewhere. Implementation of APSA continues to take place in a complex institutional environment, driven and at the same time contested …
The African Union, the African Peace and Security Architecture, and Maritime Security
The content of African maritime security as an emerging policy field is contested. It can be located anywhere between traditional security politics (related to piracy, maritime terrorism and unregulated fishing), developmental and environmentalist concerns, and efforts to regain economic sovereignty over African territorial and offshore waters. As a result, since approximately 2005 the institutional place of maritime security in continental polit…
South Africa: The 2014 National and Provincial Elections
On 7 May 2014, South Africa held its fifth national and provincial elections since the end of apartheid in 1994. Despite a degree of discontent, the ANC remained firmly in power, receiving 62.15 per cent of the vote. Frustration about non-delivery of services, autocratic tendencies within the ruling party and widespread corrupt practices did not translate into substantially more votes for opposition parties, except in the Western Cape and Gauteng…
African Dynamics in a Multipolar World
at Goldsmiths, the University of London, with long-standing fieldwork in Meru, Kenya, originally on ritual and age-set formation, but more recently on accidental death
African dynamics in a multipolar world
African Dynamics in a Multipolar World
Fifty years after the foundation of the OAU and the consolidation of most African states and institutions, the international panorama and Africa’s position in it have changed considerably. The world's geopolitical and economic configuration has evolved, with new actors appearing in a new period of globalization. In tone with ECAS 2013, this volume proposes that the experiences appearing in Africa question dominant paradigms in terms of political …
The G8 and Germany’s Africa Policy: A Case of Hegemonic Mainstreaming
For the past ten years Germany's Africa policy has become more driven by the emerging international consensus formed in the United Nations and among the G8 member states but, more importantly, within the European Union on what the African continent's challenges are and how they should be approached. The multilateralization of Africa policy plays out on questions of trade, peace, and security and in the way that aid relations are generally conditi…
Neopatrimonialism Reconsidered: Critical Review and Elaboration of an Elusive Concept
The article provides a critical discussion of the literature on ‘patrimonialism’ and ‘neopatrimonialism’ in Development Studies in general and African Studies in particular. Based on Max Weber's concept of patrimonialism and legal-rational bureaucracy the authors present their own definition of ‘neopatrimonialism’. Three key conceptual questions are addressed. These are related to the operationalisation of the concept in empirical research: (1) h…
Neopatrimonialism Revisited: Beyond a Catch-All Concept
The article provides a critical discussion of the literature on "patrimonialism" and "neopatrimonialism" as far as the use in Development Studies in general or African Studies in particular is concerned. To overcome the catch-all use of the concept the authors present their own definition of "neopatrimonialism" based on Max Weber's concept of patrimonialism and legal-rational bureaucracy. However, in order to make the concept more useful for comp…
Respacing Africa
Space has been reintroduced as an analytical category to the humanities and social sciences in the early 1990s. African Studies is one of the fields of knowledge production where the so-called spatial turn has proved to be extremely fruitful. The continent provides ample evidence for complex processes of deterritorialisation (migration, globalisation, sub-nationalisms) and reterritorialisation (new regionalisms, processes of bordering, etc.). The…
Zupta's Next Nightmare: The South African Local Government Elections of 3 August 2016
On 3 August 2016 South Africa held its fifth local government elections (LGE) since the end of Apartheid in 1994. Against a backdrop of increasing political frustration with the ruling party's poor performance and continued debates about corruption and cronyism in the highest government circles, the African National Congress (ANC) maintained its dominant position but lost 8 per cent of the aggregate vote (53.91 per cent). The Democratic Alliance …
The Foreign Policy of Zimbabwe
Peace-building Through Space-making: The Spatializing Effects of the African Union’s Peace and Security Policies
This article is discussing how the peace-building practices of the African Union have distinct ordering and space-making effects. Taking a socio-spatial perspective, it is argued that the peace and security projects through which the African Union, as a spatial entrepreneur, is addressing the scourge of ‘terrorism and violent extremism’ are geared towards (re-)establishing sovereignty that member states have lost in the past over their territorie…
Securing Africa. Post-9/11 discourses on terrorism
African Regional and Inter-Regional Health Governance: Early Responses to the Covid-19 Pandemic by Ecowas and the African Union
The Covid-19 pandemic brings back to the fore traditions of interconnected health governance in Africa, both at regional and inter-regional levels. Using the early pandemic responses of ECOWAS and the African Union as empirical case studies, we reconstruct (1) how already established regional actors in managing pandemics, such as the West African Health Organization (WAHO), are (2) now interacting with a newly established continental institution,…
South Africa: The 2014 National and Provincial Elections
On 7 May 2014, South Africa held its fifth national and provincial elections since the end of apartheid in 1994. Despite a degree of discontent, the ANC remained firmly in power, receiving 62.15 per cent of the vote. Frustration about non-delivery of services, autocratic tendencies within the ruling party and widespread corrupt practices did not translate into substantially more votes for opposition parties, except in the Western Cape and Gauteng…
The 2007 African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance: Trying to Make Sense of the Late Ratification of the African Charter and Non-Implementation of Its Compliance Mechanism
In principle, the 2007 African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance (ACDEG) could be a powerful instrument to bring the African Governance Architecture to life and to help ensure that its universal values, including respect for human rights and the rule of law, are implemented across all African Union member states. Yet how serious in reality are the latter on this question? Ratification of the African Charter has taken five years and, …
Imagining, Implementing, and Integrating the African Peace and Security Architecture: The African Union’s Challenges
In 2002 the African Union embarked on an ambitious plan to develop and operationalize a comprehensive African Peace and Security Architecture (APSA). Since then, it has become clear that this is truly a journey in unchartered waters, with little in the sense of precedent and off-the-shelf blueprints in Africa or elsewhere. Implementation of APSA continues to take place in a complex institutional environment, driven and at the same time contested …
Parlamentswahlen in Südafrika
Law and Politics in Africa, Asia and Latin America" analyses legal and constitutional developments in all states or regions outside of Europe as well as their regional and international integration. Founded in 1968 and inspired by decolonization and the idea of a cooperative new beginning, the Journal also promotes a special interest in contributions on 'Law and development'. The journal aims to provide a forum for a variety of perspectives on th…
Parlamentswahlen in Südafrika
Law and Politics in Africa, Asia and Latin America" analyses legal and constitutional developments in all states or regions outside of Europe as well as their regional and international integration. Founded in 1968 and inspired by decolonization and the idea of a cooperative new beginning, the Journal also promotes a special interest in contributions on 'Law and development'. The journal aims to provide a forum for a variety of perspectives on th…
The Foreign Policy of Zimbabwe
Lesotho
This chapter on elections and electoral systems in Lesotho follows the same format as all the other country chapters in the book. The first section is introductory and contains a historical overview, discussion of the evolution of electoral provisions, an account of the current electoral provisions, and a comment on the electoral statistics. The second section consists of ten tables. These are: 2.1 Dates of National Elections, Referendums, and Co…
Gewaltsame Konflikte und ihre Prävention in Afrika. Hintergründe, Analysen und Strategien für die entwicklungspolitische Praxis
Briefing: Still in search of a political agenda: Germany's Africa policy under the red-green government, 1998-99
Journal Article Briefing: still in search of a political agenda: Germany's Africa policy under the red-green government, 1998-99 Get access U Engel U Engel Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 99, Issue 394, January 2000, Pages 113–118, https://doi.org/10.1093/afraf/99.394.113 Published: 01 January 2000
Is Violence Inevitable in Africa?: Theories of Conflict and Approaches to Conflict Prevention
This volume is an attempt to analyse the causes of violent conflict in Africa, to review the various approaches to conflict prevention and conflict resolution and to discuss some of the practical difficulties in ending violence. It brings together a wide range of scholars and practitioners, with specialist knowledge of a large number of African countries. The intention here is to provide a survey of the various approaches to conflict in Africa, a…
Neopatrimonialism Revisited: Beyond a Catch-All Concept
The article provides a critical discussion of the literature on "patrimonialism" and "neopatrimonialism" as far as the use in Development Studies in general or African Studies in particular is concerned. To overcome the catch-all use of the concept the authors present their own definition of "neopatrimonialism" based on Max Weber's concept of patrimonialism and legal-rational bureaucracy. However, in order to make the concept more useful for comp…
Introduction: The Spatial Turn In African Studies
European Citizen Action Service (ECAS) 3 was held between 4 and 7 June 2009 in Leipzig under the rubric of ‘Respacing Africa’. This was meant as an invitation to take stock of the impact of the spatial turn on African studies. A strong plea for a reconceptualisation of space has come from what has been labelled ‘new political geography’. Influenced by post-modern, constructivist reasoning geographers such as the Finn Anssi Paasi argued that space…
Preliminary Material
Index
Neopatrimonialism Reconsidered: Critical Review and Elaboration of an Elusive Concept
The article provides a critical discussion of the literature on ‘patrimonialism’ and ‘neopatrimonialism’ in Development Studies in general and African Studies in particular. Based on Max Weber's concept of patrimonialism and legal-rational bureaucracy the authors present their own definition of ‘neopatrimonialism’. Three key conceptual questions are addressed. These are related to the operationalisation of the concept in empirical research: (1) h…
African Alternatives
This collection of articles aims to stimulate the exploration of African initiative and creativity and to go beyond immediate socio-economic and political circumstances by analyzing those initiatives that offer alternatives to the prevailing paradigms. It moves away from African ‘victimhood’ by stressing African ‘agency’ and by demonstrating that societies in Africa have always showed the ability to negotiate whatever constraining ecological, eco…
The African Union's New Peace and Security Architecture: Toward an Evolving Security Regime
Building on international relations regime theory, this article provides an update on the implementation of the new African peace and security architecture. It reflects on the principles underlying the architecture's design, which is discussed as a security regime in the making. The fundamental driver of this as yet proto-regime is the new African Union Commission. At the same time, the adverse interests of some member states, as well as financia…
Respacing Africa
Respacing Africa
Space has been reintroduced as an analytical category to the humanities and social sciences in the early 1990s. African Studies is one of the fields of knowledge production where the so-called spatial turn has proved to be extremely fruitful. The continent provides ample evidence for complex processes of deterritorialisation (migration, globalisation, sub-nationalisms) and reterritorialisation (new regionalisms, processes of bordering, etc.). The…
Securing Africa. Post-9/11 discourses on terrorism
The G8 and Germany’s Africa Policy: A Case of Hegemonic Mainstreaming
For the past ten years Germany's Africa policy has become more driven by the emerging international consensus formed in the United Nations and among the G8 member states but, more importantly, within the European Union on what the African continent's challenges are and how they should be approached. The multilateralization of Africa policy plays out on questions of trade, peace, and security and in the way that aid relations are generally conditi…
African Dynamics in a Multipolar World
at Goldsmiths, the University of London, with long-standing fieldwork in Meru, Kenya, originally on ritual and age-set formation, but more recently on accidental death
African dynamics in a multipolar world
African Dynamics in a Multipolar World
Fifty years after the foundation of the OAU and the consolidation of most African states and institutions, the international panorama and Africa’s position in it have changed considerably. The world's geopolitical and economic configuration has evolved, with new actors appearing in a new period of globalization. In tone with ECAS 2013, this volume proposes that the experiences appearing in Africa question dominant paradigms in terms of political …
Imagining, Implementing, and Integrating the African Peace and Security Architecture: The African Union’s Challenges
In 2002 the African Union embarked on an ambitious plan to develop and operationalize a comprehensive African Peace and Security Architecture (APSA). Since then, it has become clear that this is truly a journey in unchartered waters, with little in the sense of precedent and off-the-shelf blueprints in Africa or elsewhere. Implementation of APSA continues to take place in a complex institutional environment, driven and at the same time contested …
The African Union, the African Peace and Security Architecture, and Maritime Security
The content of African maritime security as an emerging policy field is contested. It can be located anywhere between traditional security politics (related to piracy, maritime terrorism and unregulated fishing), developmental and environmentalist concerns, and efforts to regain economic sovereignty over African territorial and offshore waters. As a result, since approximately 2005 the institutional place of maritime security in continental polit…
South Africa: The 2014 National and Provincial Elections
On 7 May 2014, South Africa held its fifth national and provincial elections since the end of apartheid in 1994. Despite a degree of discontent, the ANC remained firmly in power, receiving 62.15 per cent of the vote. Frustration about non-delivery of services, autocratic tendencies within the ruling party and widespread corrupt practices did not translate into substantially more votes for opposition parties, except in the Western Cape and Gauteng…
Africa's New Peace and Security Architecture: Promoting Norms, Institutionalizing Solutions
Zupta's Next Nightmare: The South African Local Government Elections of 3 August 2016
On 3 August 2016 South Africa held its fifth local government elections (LGE) since the end of Apartheid in 1994. Against a backdrop of increasing political frustration with the ruling party's poor performance and continued debates about corruption and cronyism in the highest government circles, the African National Congress (ANC) maintained its dominant position but lost 8 per cent of the aggregate vote (53.91 per cent). The Democratic Alliance …
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