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 Society, 20(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 Policy. International Studies Review, 25(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 Research, 19(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 Security, 32(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 Studies, 60(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
Reiss, M. (2022). Constructing the East African Community. Diffusion from African and European Regional Organizations. London: Routledge.
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.
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
Witt, A. (2020). Undoing Coups. The African Union and Post-coup Intervention in Madagascar. London: Zed Books.
Other Publications
Iroulo, L. C. / Boateng, O. A. (2020). African states must localise Coronavirus response. GIGA Focus Afrika (3).
