Over the past decade, numerous international actors have developed policy frameworks to address and ultimately prevent the resurgence of coups d'état in Africa. By reconstructing international reactions to the coups in Guinea and Madagascar, this article analyzes whether this trend has also engendered a convergence in practice. This, it argues, involves a struggle ...

This article explores former President Joaquim Chissano?s mediation in Madagascar after the 2009 political crisis that led to the ouster of President Marc Ravalomanana. It shows that there are inherent tensions in mediating the reestablishment of constitutional order in the context of the African Union?s anti-coup policy. While espousing the ideal of mediation as a...

An in-depth analysis of international intervention in Madagascar following the 2009 coup, and what it means for African 'anti-coup' efforts