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<article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.2" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">Vestnik RUDN. International Relations</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="en">Vestnik RUDN. International Relations</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Вестник Российского университета дружбы народов. Серия: Международные отношения</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="print">2313-0660</issn><issn publication-format="electronic">2313-0679</issn><publisher><publisher-name xml:lang="en">федеральное государственное автономное образовательное учреждение высшего образования «Российский университет дружбы народов имени Патриса Лумумбы» (РУДН)</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">21459</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.22363/2313-0660-2019-19-2-207-217</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>THEMATIC DOSSIER</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>ТЕМАТИЧЕСКОЕ ДОСЬЕ</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="article-type"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title xml:lang="en">West African International Studies: Approaches to Regional Security</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Проблематика региональной безопасности в работах западноафриканских исследователей международных отношений</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Shipilov</surname><given-names>Alexander Yurievich</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Шипилов</surname><given-names>Александр Юрьевич</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>postgraduate student at the Institute of World History (Russian Academy of Sciences), junior fellow researcher at the Laboratory for the Institutional History of the 20th Century, Institute of World History (Russian Academy of Sciences)</p></bio><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>аспирант Института всеобщей истории РАН, младший научный сотрудник лаборатории «Институциональная история ХХ века» Института всеобщей истории РАН</p></bio><email>alexmo1994@gmail.com</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff1"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">Institute of World History, Russian Academy of Sciences</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Институт всеобщей истории РАН</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2019-12-15" publication-format="electronic"><day>15</day><month>12</month><year>2019</year></pub-date><volume>19</volume><issue>2</issue><issue-title xml:lang="en">International Studies in the Global South</issue-title><issue-title xml:lang="ru">Наука о международных отношениях в странах «Глобального Юга»</issue-title><fpage>207</fpage><lpage>217</lpage><history><date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2019-07-16"><day>16</day><month>07</month><year>2019</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement xml:lang="en">Copyright ©; 2019, Shipilov A.Y.</copyright-statement><copyright-statement xml:lang="ru">Copyright ©; 2019, Шипилов А.Ю.</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2019</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Shipilov A.Y.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Шипилов А.Ю.</copyright-holder><ali:free_to_read xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/"/><license><ali:license_ref xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0</ali:license_ref></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://journals.rudn.ru/international-relations/article/view/21459">https://journals.rudn.ru/international-relations/article/view/21459</self-uri><abstract xml:lang="en"><p>This article covers the most significant theoretical schools in West Africa in the framework of the international relations analysis, with special focus on the regional security. Major respective theoretical approaches to the given issues are assessed based on the writings of local experts that frequently reevaluate the major articles of faith connected with neo-Realist, neo-Liberal and Marxist views. Particular attention is drawn to the examination of various interpretations of the role that belongs to supranational regional structures in West African conflict resolution using the case of the Liberian civil war. The most crucial part of the research presented is an analysis of publications issued by Adekye Adebajo and Ismail Rashid, two leading West African specialists in the field of regional security. Their appraisal of collective security mechanisms’ perspectives in the most poverty-stricken and unstable regions of the world is elaborated upon. The aim of the article is to determine the extent of uniqueness present in Adebajo and Rashid’s approaches compared to their Western and African colleagues but also to figure how West African 1990-2000’s conflicts’ analysis did have an impact on the scholars’ theoretical views and more broadly what was its contribution to the regional understanding of international relations. The research is based upon comparative and historical-genetic methods as well as case studies. The major elements composing the scholars’ analysis of successes and failures in the path of West African integration are presented along with their appraisal of the ECOWAS security component. A comparison is made between their views and those of their regional colleagues belonging to other schools of thought as well as Western theories that had the greatest impact on these authors.</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="ru"><p>В настоящей работе освещаются наиболее значимые направления западноафриканской мысли в рамках анализа международных отношений, в том числе в сфере региональной безопасности. Рассматриваются основные школы исследований данной проблематики на основе работ местных экспертов, переосмысливающих основные установки неореалистских, неолиберальных и марксистских подходов. В частности, исследуются различные трактовки роли наднациональных региональных структур в разрешении региональных конфликтов на примере либерийской гражданской войны. Центральное место занимает анализ работ Адекейе Адебаджо и Исмаила Рашида, ведущих западноафриканских специалистов по региональной безопасности. Отражена их оценка перспектив институтов коллективной безопасности в наиболее бедных и нестабильных регионах мира. Цель работы - определить, насколько оригинальными являются подходы А. Адебаджо и И. Рашида в сравнении с их западными и африканскими коллегами, а также то, насколько анализ гражданских конфликтов в Западной Африке 1990- 2000-х гг. повлиял на становление теоретических взглядов этих исследователей и в целом способствовал развитию науки о международных отношениях в Африке. Исследование опирается на компаративистский и историко-генетический методы, а также на метод кейс-стади. Представлены основные элементы проведенного А. Адебаджо и И. Рашидом анализа успехов и неудач западноафриканской интеграции, а также оценки перспектив силового компонента ЭКОВАС. Проведено сравнение их позиции как с взглядами региональных коллег из иных научных школ, так и с положениями теорий, распространенных на Западе и оказавших на авторов наибольшее влияние.</p></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>West Africa</kwd><kwd>regional integration</kwd><kwd>Liberia</kwd><kwd>International Relations</kwd><kwd>collective security</kwd><kwd>English school</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>Западная Африка</kwd><kwd>региональная интеграция</kwd><kwd>Либерия</kwd><kwd>международные отношения</kwd><kwd>коллективная безопасность</kwd><kwd>английская школа</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group><award-group><award-id></award-id></award-group></funding-group></article-meta></front><body></body><back><ref-list><ref id="B1"><label>1.</label><citation-alternatives><mixed-citation xml:lang="en">Adebajo, A. (2002). Building Peace in West Africa: Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea Bissau. 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