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Abstract:
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Analysing how the SSR process in CAR has been defined and then implemented, this article puts
emphasis on the international interactions between institutional actors who may be
geographically/territorially situated at different levels of the policy-making process in different places
around the world, thus suggesting ways to grasp multi-actor and multi-sited governance. Therefore, it
advocates an approach which consists of expanding the agenda of the traditional multi-level
governance approach. The issue at stake here is to capture the interactive institutional dynamic at an
international level, thus developing a methodological framework that is likely to seize both the topdown
and the bottom-up dynamics of decision-making processes. The first objective is to capture the
sets of actors and procedures which drive the process, and to map out the various levels of government
at which decisions are made, either the more top-down, or the more bottom-up oriented ones,
answering two sets of questions: How is security governance organised? Who decides, and on which
matters? Secondly – and more fundamentally – is to capture the intermingling of domestic and
international decision-making processes which increasingly overlap and interfere with each other in
Southern countries. |