By tacitly supporting a de facto coup in Zimbabwe, the AU has damaged the region’s efforts to end politics by force.
Philip Roessler
Philip Roessler is Associate Professor of Government at the College of William and Mary and in 2017-2018 Visiting Fellow of Practice at the Blavatnik ... School of Government, University of Oxford. He is author of Ethnic Politics and State Power in Africa: The Logic of the Coup-Civil War Trap (Cambridge University Press, 2016) and, with Harry Verhoeven,Why Comrades Go to War: Liberation Politics and the Outbreak of Africa’s Deadliest Conflict (Hurst Publishers, 2016).