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The role of the Angolan Armed Forces in the African Regional Security Architecture
The participation of the Republic of Angola in the African Peace and Security
Architecture represents, in the current sub-Saharan context, the example of a search for
strategic affirmation of a rising regional power, through a participatory, influential foreign
policy and commitment, a bet on strategic balance duality in which the Angolan Armed
Forces are an instrument of military cooperation and conflict resolution in Angola´s conjectural
interest space. THIS article demystifies this paradigm and discusses the possible interests of Angola within
the framework of participation in the African Peace and Security Architecture, constituting a
framework for development and an affirmation of military capabilities. Employing the Armed
Forces has a regional and continental assertion mechanism for Angola’s external policy in
the context of a non-permanent member of the Security Council in the United Nations
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