Continuing with our precis of Buzan and Waver's REGIONS AND POWERS... we come to the discussion of sub-Saharan Africa. One finds a good summary of their view of the security climate in that vast area here: "[After decolonization] the African state system mostly did not follow the Westphalian model into military rivalry and interstate war. Instead, it developed three almost postmodern features: (1) a loose ideology of pan-Africanism; (2) a continental institution, the OAU, which at an early stage pre-empted what could have been a drift toward rival territorial claims by institutionalizing the rule that there would be no forceful changing if the postcolonial boundaries ...; (3) a willingness to experiment with a variety of regional institutions." The phrase "the Westphalian model" refers to the principles of the Peace of Westphalia that took in effect in Europe in 1648 at the end of the Thirty Years' War. It formalized the end of feudalism, and made the Ho...