L’ONU e il sistema africano di sicurezza collettiva

The goal of this paper is to illustrate that, in undertaking their military interventions, at present African regional and sub-regional organizations may enjoy decision-making and sometimes operational autonomy from the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), to whom they are not necessarily subordinate. This autonomy, which Chapter VIII of the UN Charter itself does not rules out, is due to the legal reforms of some African organizations, which have internalized powers of military intervention for the protection of collective security, and is reflected in several operations whose establishment was decided before the UNSC had authorized them – the latter then simply incorporating in the authorizing resolutions the mandate as it was drafted by the requesting organization – and in some operations deployed even absent a UNSC’s authorization.