ABSTRACT After the Cold War, not only the United Nations (UN) but also regional organisations began to engage in the internal conflicts of their member states. The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has long intervened in West African conflicts, and institutionalised its approach to interventions in 1999. Since then, member states have maintained and even increased their commitment to managing conflicts in West Africa regionally – a willingness that implies their ownership of interventions. This article argues that ECOWAS member states share ownership because they have developed a common understanding about intervention. The development of this common understanding is analysed with a focus on the origin and evolution of ECOWAS, that is, on the multi-level process of generating consensus and on the principle and practice of sharing the costs of resource mobilisation. I will show that, in practice, these processes led each state to perceive an enhanced sense of ownership in ECOWAS interventions. Case studies of ECOWAS interventions in Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea-Bissau and Cote d’Ivoire in the 1990s and the 2000s, the period when the organisation’s interventions became institutionalised, support the argument.

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增加对西非经共体干预的所有权

摘要 冷战结束后，不仅联合国（UN），区域组织也开始介入其成员国的内部冲突。西非国家经济共同体 (ECOWAS) 长期以来一直干预西非冲突，并于 1999 年将其干预方法制度化。从那时起，成员国一直保持甚至增加了对管理西非地区冲突的承诺——这种意愿使意味着他们对干预的所有权。本文认为，ECOWAS 成员国共享所有权，因为它们对干预达成了共识。分析这一共同认识的发展，重点是西非经共体的起源和演变，即，关于形成共识的多层次过程以及分担资源调动成本的原则和做法。我将表明，在实践中，这些过程使每个国家在西非经共体干预中感受到更强的主人翁意识。1990 年代和 2000 年代西非经共体在利比里亚、塞拉利昂、几内亚比绍和科特迪瓦的干预措施的案例研究，该组织的干预措施变得制度化的时期，支持这一论点。