The African Union’s Prohibition of Unconstitutional Changes of Government: An Uneasy Choice between Fidelity to Principle and Pragmatism

IF 1.7 Q2 POLITICAL SCIENCE African Security Pub Date : 2023-01-02 DOI:10.1080/19392206.2023.2195748
Christopher Nyinevi, R. Fosu
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ABSTRACT This article examines the application of the African Union’s norm and sanctions regime on the prohibition of unconstitutional changes of government from 2001 to 2022. It identifies three forms of unconstitutional changes of government: coup d’états and other violent changes of democratically elected government; refusal of an incumbent government to relinquish power after losing an election and constitutional manipulations to win an election or extend the tenure of an incumbent government. The discussions reveal that apart from cases of coup d’états and other violent overthrows of government, the AU has not been consistent with its application of the sanction regime. The article attempts an explanation of why this is so.
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非盟禁止违宪的政府更迭:忠于原则与实用主义之间的艰难抉择
摘要本文考察了2001年至2022年非洲联盟关于禁止违宪更换政府的规范和制裁制度的适用情况。它确定了三种违反宪法的政府更迭形式:政变和民主选举政府的其他暴力更迭;现任政府在选举失败后拒绝放弃权力,以及为赢得选举或延长现任政府任期而操纵宪法。讨论表明,除了政变和其他暴力推翻政府的案件外,非盟对制裁制度的适用并不一致。这篇文章试图解释为什么会这样。
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African Security
African Security POLITICAL SCIENCE-
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