Security Cooperation in Africa: A Reappraisal Benedikt Franke This book deals with the increasing extent and equality of inter-African cooperation in the area of peace and security. In particular, it deals with the efforts of the African Union (AU), an inter-governmental organization to which all but one of Africa's 54 states belong, to establish what it calls the African Peace and Security Architecture. […] […] The book is built on two core arguments, namely (1) that he current developments on the African continent enable a detailed understanding of the motivations for, and evolutionary patterns of, complex inter-state security cooperation, and (2) that a constructivist approach offers a useful theoretical lens through which to examine these motivations and evolutionary patterns as well as their institutional manifestations. […]