World Orders and Violation of African Sovereignty

Reflections on Africa Union Security Architecture

Abstract

The study interrogated the interface between world order and the violation of African sovereignty focusing on African union security architecture. The new world order is often seen as a way or means through which the security challenges of the third world are noted after the collapse of the old world order. In the face of this order, the state sovereignty has to a large extent been compromised. The study noted that the doctrine of sovereignty developed as part of the transformation of the medieval system in Europe into the modern state system, a process that culminated in the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648 after the thirty years war...internationally, sovereignty served as the basis for exchanges of recognition on the basis of legal equality and thus on that premise is the theory of the study consolidated. Information accrued from documentary evidence was deductively analysed and the paper concluded that African Union has not been sleeping all but they are still limited by domineering influence of the west. The study recommends that there is need for the amendment of UN Charter and AU constitutive Act so as to bring African Security and defence policies strategies in congruity with the realities.