Publications of All Network Members

2026

Articles

Balasco, L., Balogun, E., Lawler, J., & Mwaba, A. (2026). Teaching politics in an age of democratic erosion. Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.

Jok, J. M., Oyewole, D., Soulé, F., Tieku, T. K., Balogun, E., et al. (2026). Bridging the gap between academics and policymakers in Africa. International Studies Perspectives.

Kipo-Sunyehzi, D. D., Lambon, P. J., Badasu, I., & Appiah, J. (2026). ECOWAS youth policy: An analysis of the implementation challenges in Ghana. Public Organization Review.

Books

Acharya, A., De Lombaerde, P., Futák-Campbell, B., Iroulo, L. C., & Batista, J. P. (Eds.). (2026). Essays on global regionalism I: The past, present and future of regionalism studies. Springer Nature.

Reiss, M., & Sogunro, A. (Eds.). (2026). Joy, reflections, resistance: LGBTIQ+ lived realities in Africa. Verlag Barbara Budrich.

Book Chapters

Acharya, A., De Lombaerde, P., Futák-Campbell, B., Iroulo, L. C., & Batista, J. P. (2026). Introduction to Essays on global regionalism II: Will regions save the world? (pp. 1–11). Springer Nature.

Iroulo, L. C. (2026). Interrogating the divide—Evaluating the African regionalism scholarly community. In Essays on global regionalism I: The past, present and future of regionalism studies. Springer Nature.

Reiss, M. (2026). Human rights architecture: A (safe) space for all Africans? Human rights of LGBTIQ+ persons and the role of the African Union. In A. Acharya, P. De Lombaerde, B. Futák-Campbell, L. C. Iroulo, & J. P. Batista (Eds.), Essays on global regionalism II: Will regions save the world? (pp. 297–305). Springer.

Other Publications

Reiss, M., & Karijo, Ā. J. (2026). The long shadow of colonial violence against Kenyan LGBTIQ+ persons (TraCe Working Paper No. 8).

2025

Articles

Amoah-Darkwah, E., & Appiah, J. A. (2025). The African Union in the G20: Navigating interest in a declining multilateral system.

Appiah, J. A., & Badasu, M. (2025). The challenge and prospect of a monetary union in West Africa: The case of the Eco. African and Asian Studies.

Duggan, N., Haastrup, T., Hogan, J. J., Mah, L., & Bernardo, L. (2025). African agency in geopolitical times: Playing with EU and Chinese ontological security. Third World Quarterly.

Haastrup, T. (2025). Contending with the coloniality of feminist foreign policy: A perspective from Africa. Politics & Gender.

Iroulo, L. C. (2025). Against all odds: Why the African Union still talks it out. Politikon, 52(2), 145–164.

Books

de Sousa, R. R. P., Herpolsheimer, J., & Cuadrado, J. (Eds.). (2025). Political instability in Guinea-Bissau. Routledge.

Book Chapters

Boateng, O. A. (2025). Actors and institutions. In K. Radtke & K. Roepstorff (Eds.), An introduction to humanitarian action. Routledge.

Engel, U., & Herpolsheimer, J. (2025). Secretariats and staff of African international organizations. In B. Reinalda & M. Louis (Eds.), Routledge handbook of international organization (pp. 222–235). Routledge.

Haastrup, T. (2025). Deprovincializing Africa in the EU’s milieu. In S. Lucarelli & J. Sperling (Eds.), Handbook of European Union governance (pp. 488–500). Edward Elgar.

Herpolsheimer, J. (2025). The sites, actors and practices of inter-regionalism between African regional organizations and the EU: Zooming in on ECOWAS-EU relations. In S. Price & M. Langan (Eds.), Africa, the EU and the Samoa Agreement: Exploring African agency amid the ‘new scramble’ (pp. 129–146). Routledge.

Reiss, M. (2025). The globalization project of the East African Community. In U. Engel, J. Herpolsheimer, & F. Mattheis (Eds.), Globalization projects of regional organizations. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.

Reiss, M. (2025). Regions. In B. Jahn & S. Schindler (Eds.), Elgar encyclopedia of international relations (pp. 344–345). Edward Elgar Publishing.

Other Publications

Haastrup, T. (2025, March). Building a Pan-African feminist peace (8 p.). Institute for Peace and Security Studies.

Haastrup, T., & Hagen, J. (2025, Aug 4). 25 Years of Women, Peace and Security in the UK: An Opportunity to align feminist commitments at home and abroad. Rethinking Security. https://rethinkingsecurity.org.uk/2025/08/04/25-years-of-wps-in-the-uk/

2024

Articles

Herpolsheimer, J. (2024). Studying practices of interregional security governance and space-making between ECOWAS and the European Union. Territory, Politics, Governance, 12 (4), 554 – 571.

Ketzmerick-Calandrino, M. (2024). Colonial Dis/Continuities in Cameroon and the Postcolonial Dilemma in the Archive. Global Studies Quarterly, 4(3). https://doi.org/10.1093/isagsq/ksae066

Mkeremy, M. / Lisakafu, J. (2024). Operation Sukola II in the DRC: A critical review of the application of the UN human rights due diligence policy. South African Journal of International Affairs, 707 – 723. https://doi.org/10.1080/10220461.2024.2319114

Reiss, M. (2024). Advocating for human rights of LGBTIQ+ persons in multilevel governance systems. Journal of Civil Society20(3), 269–284. https://doi.org/10.1080/17448689.2024.2366227

Reiss, M. / Tabengwa, M. (2024). Tug-of-war: LGBTIQ+ rights in the African human rights architecture. African Human Rights Law Journal, 24(2), 472–501. https://doi.org/10.17159/1996-2096/2024/v24n2a4

Tieku, T. K. & Yakohene, A. B. (2024). Exploring Communities of Practice from an Informality Perspective: Insights from the AU, ECOWAS, and UN in West African Mediation Theaters. Global Studies Quarterly, 4(1). https://doi.org/10.1093/isagsq/ksad074

Book Chapters

Boateng, O. A. (2024). Africa’s long fight for humanitarian self-sufficiency. In: Roth, S. / Purkayastha, B. / Denskus, T. (eds.). Handbook on Humanitarianism and Inequality, 443-457. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing.

Lisakafu, J. (2024). AU and SADC Cooperation in the Promotion of Peace and Security in Africa: Threats of Conflicts of Interest from a Legal Perspective. In: Muntschick, J. / Plank, F. (eds.). The Performance of Regionalism in the Global South: A Multi-level Analysis. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003318941.

Reiss, M. (2024). ‘Regionalism in Global Politics’. In: Zimmermann, H. / Elsinger, M. / Burkhardt, A. (eds.). International Relations. Theories in Action, 209–30. London: Sage Publications Ltd.

Other Publications

Ketzmerick-Calandrino, M. (2024). Security. Speaking with Fanon? Rewriting Peace And Conflict. Virtual Encyclopaedia – Rewriting Peace and Conflict (8/10/2024).

2023

Articles

Achilleos-Sarll, C. / Thomson, J. / Haastrup, T. / Färber, K. / Cohn, C. / Kirby, P. (2023). The Past, Present, and Future(s) of Feminist Foreign PolicyInternational Studies Review25(1), Article viac068. https://doi.org/10.1093/isr/viac068

David, M. / Garcia, M. / Haastrup, T. / Mattheis, F. (2023). Disrupting and Re-imagining European Studies: towards a More Diverse and Inclusive Discipline. Journal of Contemporary European Research19(2), 151-162. https://doi.org/10.30950/jcer.v19i2.1294.

Dieng, R. / Haastrup, T. / Kang, A. (2023). Centering Feminists and Feminism in Protests in Africa. Politics & Gender. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1743923X22000769

Guerrina, R. / Haastrup, T. / Wright, K. (2023). Contesting feminist power Europe: is Feminist Foreign Policy possible for the EU? European Security32(3), 485-507. https://doi.org/10.1080/09662839.2023.2233080

Haastrup, T. (2023). Making Feminist Foreign Policy Work for Africa. https://doi.org/10.59184/sa.021

Iroulo, L. C. / Boateng, O. A. (2023). “Bureaucratic Acquiescence as an Institutional Strategy in the African Union.” African and Asian Studies, 22(1–2), 113–34. DOI: 10.1163/15692108-12341583

Mkeremy, M. / Lisakafu, J. (2023). Human Needs and Civilian Violence in United Nations Peace Keeping Operations: A Case of MONUSCO in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Journal of African Politics, 3(2), 01-15. DOI: 10.58548/2023jap32.0115

Mukalazi, M. M. (2023). The African Union’s Silencing the Guns: between stereotyping and owning gender roles. Zeitschrift für Friedens- und Konfliktforschung, 12, 289 – 305.

Mumford, D. / Shires, J. (2023). Toward a decolonial cybersecurity: interrogating the racial-epistemic hierarchies that constitute cybersecurity expertise. Security Studies, 32(4-5), 622 – 652.

Reiss, M. / Lenz, T. (2023). Globalising the study of diffusion: multiple sources and the East African Community. Journal of European Public Policy, 1–29.

Witt, A. / Bah, O. M. / Birchinger, S. / Jaw, S. M. / Schnabel, S. (2023). How African Regional Interventions are Perceived on the Ground: Contestation and Multiplexity. International Peacekeeping, 31(1), 58-86. https://doi.org/10.1080/13533312.2023.2262922

Witt, A. / Anderl, F. (2023). Mapping as Problematization of the Global. Millennium, 51(1), 13–22. https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/03058298221139330

Witt, A. (2023). Forging an African Union Identity: The Power of Experience. Global Studies Quarterly, 3(3), 1–12. https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/isagsq/ksad052

Yakohene, A. B. / Appiah, J. A. / Mawuli-Kwawu, E. (2023). Monarch, autocracy or democracy? Rethinking term limits towards peace, stability and development in Central Africa. Legon Journal for International Affairs and Diplomacy, 12(1), 1-28.

Books

Daase, C. / Deitelhoff, N. / Witt, A. (eds). (2023). Rule in International Politics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Döring, K., Engel, U., Gelot, L., & Herpolsheimer, J. (Orgs.). (2023). Recherches sur la vie intérieure de l’Architecture africaine de paix et de sécurité (APSA). Brill.

Book Chapters

Haastrup, T. (2023). Building gender norms into regional governance and the limits of institutionalising feminism. In: Sawer, M., Banaszak, L. A., True, J. & Kantola, J. (eds.). Handbook of Feminist Governance, 371-383. Edward Elgar Publishing.

Haastrup, T. (2023). Can ‘Feminist’ Policymaking Deliver a More Just World? In: Partis-Jennings, H. / Eroukhmanoff, H. (eds.). Feminist Policymaking in Turbulent Times.

Mumford, D. (2023). Confronting Coloniality in Cyberspace: How to Make the Concept of (In)Stability Useful. In: Chesney, R. / Shires, J. / Smeets, M. (eds.). Cyberspace and Instability. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 299 – 329.

Other Publications

Agius, Christine / Bergman Rosamond, Annika / Haastrup, Toni / Wright, Katharine A. M. (2023). Challenges for Feminist informed Foreign Policy: Militarisation and Australia’s Engagement via AUKUS and NATO.

Haastrup, Toni / Duggan, Niall / Hogan, John / Mah, Luis / Mukalazi, Miriam M. (2023). Study on how to promote inclusiveness of Team Europe Initiatives.

Haastrup, Toni. (2023). Women, Peace and Security in a National Security Context: Tensions and Risks. 

Wright, Katharine A. M. / Haastrup, Toni / Guerrina, Roberta. (2023). Domestication+: The Fifth U.K. National Action Plan on Women, Peace, and Security. 

2022

Articles

Appiah, J. A. / Mireku-Yeboah, N. Y. / Asah-Asante, A. (2022). Architecture of Denial: Imperial Violence, the Construction of Law and Historical Knowledge during the Mau Mau Uprising, 1952-1960. African Journal of Legal Studies, 14, 3 – 27.

Boateng, O. A. (2022). Biological citizenship through litigation: Ebola survivors in Sierra Leone and the suit to redefine corruption. Critical Public Health, 32(5), 747-758.

Haastrup, T. / Macrae, H. / Masselot, A. / Young, A. / Soko, M. / Whitman, R. G. (2022). Editing ‚Europe‘: Reflections from Inside, Outside and Beyond. Journal of Common Market Studies60(4), 853-866. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcms.13374

Haastrup, T. / Milner, R. / Whitman, R. G. (2022). Who creates the “common market”? The gendered practices of knowledge production in a “European studies” journal. European Political Science. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41304-021-00355-5

Tieku, T. K. (2022). A new research agenda for Africa’s international relations. African Affairs, 121(484), 487–499. https://doi.org/10.1093/afraf/adac022

Witt, A. (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.

Books

Book Chapters

Haastrup, T. (2022). Feminist Peace Research in Europe: A Snapshot. In: Stern, M. / Towns, A. E. (eds.). Feminist IR in Europe: Knowledge Production in Academic Institutions, 55-74. (Trends in European IR Theory). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-91999-3_4

Iroulo, L. C. / Lenz, T. (2022). Global Theories of Regionalism. In: Rüland, J. / Carrapatoso, A. (eds.). Handbook on Regionalism and Global Governance. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.

Reiss, M. (2022). Regionalismus und De-Globalisierung. In: Schirm, S. / Busch, A. / Lütz, S. / Walter, S. / Zimmermann, H. (eds.). De-Globalisierung. Forschungsstand und Perspektiven. Nomos.

Yakohene, A B. / Appiah, J. A. (2022). The Shining Black Star of Africa: The tale of Ghana in Conflict Resolution. In: Delgado-Caicedo, Jeronimo. (eds.). Handbook of Regional Conflict Resolution Initiatives in the Global South, 193-210. London: Routledge. DOI:10.4324/9781003287018-17

Other Publications

Duggan, N. / Mah, L. / Haastrup, T. (2022). Africa’s relations with the EU: a reset is possible if Europe changes its attitude. The Conversation Trust.

 
Haastrup, T. (2022). Africa-Europe, Toil and Trouble? Italian Institute for International Political Studies.
 
Haastrup, T. (2022). Braucht Afrika noch die EU? IPG.
 
Haastrup, T. (2022). Negotiating Africa-EU futures amidst geopolitical turmoil. Africa Policy Research Institute.
 
Haastrup, T. (2022). The EU Should Rethink Its Militarized Approach to African Security. World Politics Review.
 
 

Reiss, M. (2022). Putting Lessons Learnt to the Test During Challenging Times: The East African Community And The Covid-19 Pandemic. UNU Institute on Comparative Regional Integration Studies.

2021

Articles

Appiah, J.A. / Mireku-Yeboah, N. Y. (2021). Decrypting Crypto-Colonialism and Unveiling the Mask of Innocence: Switzerland’s Covert Colonial Designs and Continuity in Africa. Contemporary Journal of African Studie, 7(2), 31 – 44.

Boateng, O. A. (2021). Building Africa’s homegrown humanitarian systems: Restoration as an alternative to localization. Frontiers in Political Science, Sec. Peace and Democracy (3).

Engel, U., & Herpolsheimer, J. (2021). African regional and inter-regional health governance: Early responses to the COVID-19 pandemic by ECOWAS and the African Union. African Security, 14(4), 318–340.

Mumford, D. (2021). How regional norms shape regional organizations: The Pan-African rhetorical trap and the empowerment of the ECOWAS Parliament. In: African Affairs, 120 (478), 1 – 25.

Books

Döring, K., Engel, U., Gelot, L., & Herpolsheimer, J. (Eds.). (2021). Researching the inner life of the African Peace and Security Architecture: APSA inside-out. Brill.

Herpolsheimer, J. (2021). Spatializing Practices of Regional Organizations during Conflict Intervention: The Politics of ECOWAS and the African Union. Oxfordshire: Routledge. 

Tieku, T. K. / Coffie, A. / Setrana, M. B. / Taiwo, A. (2021). The Politics of Peacebuilding in Africa. Routledge eBooks. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003187585

Other Publications

Boateng, O. A. / Iroulo, L. C. (2021). Africa and Covid-19: Where Do We Go from Here? UNU Insitute on Comparative Regional Integration Studies.

2020

Articles

Anderl, F. / Witt, A. (2020). Problematising the Global in Global IR. Millennium, 49(1), 32–57. DOI: 10.1177/0305829820971708.

Witt, A. / Schnabel, S. (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.

Books

Other Publications

Iroulo, L. C. / Boateng, O. A. (2020). African states must localise Coronavirus response. GIGA Focus Afrika (3).