African military intervention in African conflicts: an analysis of military intervention in Rwanda, the DRC and Lesotho

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dc.contributor.advisorThompson, Lisa
dc.contributor.authorLikoti, Fako Johnson
dc.contributor.otherSchool of Government
dc.contributor.otherFaculty of Economics and Management Sciences
dc.date.accessioned2013-08-08T10:34:16Z
dc.date.accessioned2024-05-03T13:41:00Z
dc.date.available2007/06/19 08:43
dc.date.available2007/07/20
dc.date.available2013-08-08T10:34:16Z
dc.date.available2024-05-03T13:41:00Z
dc.date.issued2006
dc.descriptionPhilosophiae Doctor - PhDen_US
dc.description.abstractThe dissertation examines three military interventions in Sub-Saharan Africa which took place in the mid and late 1990s in Rwanda, the DRC and Lesotho. These interventions took place despite high expectations of international and regional peace on the part of most analysts after the collapse of cold war in 1989. However, interstate and intrastate conflicts re-emerged with more intensity than ever before, and sub-Saharan Africa proved to be no exception.The study sets out to analyse the motives and/or causes of military interventions in Rwanda in 1990, the DRC in 1996-7, and the DRC military rebellion and the Lesotho intervention in 1998. In analysing these interventions, the study borrows extensively from the work of dominant security theorists of international relations, predominantly realists who conceptualise international relations as a struggle for power and survival in the anarchic world. The purpose of this analysis is fourfold; firstly, to determine the reasons for military interventions and the extent to which these interventions were conducted on humanitarian grounds; secondly, to investigate the degree to which or not intervening countries were spurred by their national interests; thirdly, to assess the roles of international organisations like Southern African Development Community (SADC), the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) and the United Nations, in facilitating these interventions; as well as to evaluate the role of parliaments of intervening countries in authorising or not these military interventions in terms of holding their Executives accountable. In this context, the analysis argues that the intervening countries; Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Chad, Namibia, Rwanda, Sudan, South Africa, Uganda and Zimbabwe appeared to have used intervention as a realist foreign policy tool in the absence of authorisation from the United Nations and its subordinate bodies such as the OAU and SADC.en_US
dc.description.countrySouth Africa
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10566/13142
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of the Western Capeen_US
dc.rights.holderUniversity of the Western Capeen_US
dc.subjectConflict management - Africaen_US
dc.subjectSub-Saharanen_US
dc.subjectHumanitarian intervention - Africaen_US
dc.subjectSub-Saharan Peacekeeping forces - Africaen_US
dc.subjectSub-Saharan Africaen_US
dc.subjectSub-Saharan - Politics and governmenten_US
dc.titleAfrican military intervention in African conflicts: an analysis of military intervention in Rwanda, the DRC and Lesothoen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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