Dr. Antonia Witt
I am part of RASS because the network allows me to deepen my work on everyday aspects of African regionalism and the role of experience therein as part of an inspiring group of international scholars.
Research fields: African interventions, authority and legitimacy of international organizations, politics from below
Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF)
Dr. Antonia Witt is the Head of the Research Group ‘African Intervention Politics’ at the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF). Her research focuses on African peace interventions, authority and legitimacy in international politics, coups and political crises, and the governance of violent extremism with a regional focus on West Africa. She has led several third-party
funded international research projects on these topics. With regard to the study of regionalism, Antonia’s research has particularly explored the everyday aspects of African regionalism, including African citizens‘ experiences with and responses to African regional policies as well as the everyday practices of those ‚doing‘ African regionalism.
Antonia Witt is the co-author of International Organizations under Pressure (Oxford University Press, 2019) and the author of Undoing Coups: The African Union and Post-coup Intervention in Madagascar (Zed Books, 2020). Her articles were published inter alia in the Review of International Studies, Millennium, International Peacekeeping, and the Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding.
Publications
Witt, Antonia / Bah, Omar M. / Birchinger, Sophia / Jaw, Sait Matty / Schnabel, Simone. (2023). How African Regional Interventions are Perceived on the Ground: Contestation and Multiplexity. International Peacekeeping, 31(1), 58-86. DOI: 10.1080/13533312.2023.2262922.
Witt, Antonia / Anderl, Felix. (2023). Mapping as Problematization of the Global. Millennium, 51(1), 13–22. DOI: 10.1177/03058298221139330.
Witt, Antonia. (2023). Forging an African Union Identity: The Power of Experience. Global Studies Quarterly, 3(3), 1–12. DOI: 10.1093/isagsq/ksad052.
Daase, Christopher / Deitelhoff, Nicole / Witt, Antonia. (eds). (2023). Rule in International Politics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Witt, Antonia. (2022). Beyond formal powers: Understanding the African Union’s authority on the ground. Review of International Studies, 48(4), 626–645. DOI: 10.1017/S0260210522000067.
Anderl, Felix / Witt, Antonia. (2020). Problematising the Global in Global IR. Millennium, 49(1), 32–57. DOI: 10.1177/0305829820971708.
Witt, Antonia. (2020). Undoing Coups. The African Union and Post-coup Intervention in Madagascar. London: Zed Books.
Witt, Antonia / Schnabel, Simone. (2020). Taking Intervention Politics Seriously. Media Debates and the Contestation of African Regional Interventions ‘from Below’. Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, 14(2), 271-288. DOI: 10.1080/17502977.2020.1736415.
Witt, Antonia. (2019). Where Regional Norms Matter. Contestation and the Domestic Impact of the African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance. Africa Spectrum, 54(2), 106–126. DOI: 10.1177/0002039719848513.
Dingwerth, Klaus / Witt, Antonia / Lehmann, Ina / Reichel, Ellen / Weise, Tobias. (2019). International Organizations under Pressure. Legitimating Global Governance in Challenging Times. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Witt, Antonia. (2018). Studying African Interventions ‘from Below’. Exploring Practices, Knowledges and Perceptions. South African Journal of International Affairs, Special Issue, 25(1), 1–19. DOI: 10.1080/10220461.2018.1417904.
Witt, Antonia / Khadiagala, Gilbert M. (2018). Towards Studying African Interventions ‘from Below’ – A Short Conclusion. South African Journal of International Affairs, Special Issue, 25(1), 133–139. DOI: 10.1080/10220461.2018.1438917.
