The role of the Angolan Armed Forces in the African Regional Security Architecture

• Author(s): Bernardino, Luís Manuel Brás
• Date: 2015
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10071/9704
• Origin: Repositório ISCTE
• Subject(s): Angola; African Peace and Security Architecture; Security; Defense; Angolan Armed Forces
• Document Type: Journal article
• Language: English

Description

The participation of the Republic of Angola in the African Peace and Security Architecture represents, in the current sub-Saharan context, the example of a search for strategic affirmation of a rising regional power, through a participatory, influential foreign policy and commitment, a bet on strategic balance duality in which the Angolan Armed Forces are an instrument of military cooperation and conflict resolution in Angola´s conjectural interest space. THIS article demystifies this paradigm and discusses the possible interests of Angola within the framework of participation in the African Peace and Security Architecture, constituting a framework for development and an affirmation of military capabilities. Employing the Armed Forces has a regional and continental assertion mechanism for Angola’s external policy in the context of a non-permanent member of the Security Council in the United Nations.