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JOURNAL OF AFRICAN UNION STUDIES (JoAUS) Volume 15, (Number 1), April 2026

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In an era defined by intensifying Great Power competition and systemic global uncertainty, the African Union (AU) appears to have adopted a posture of what could be called ' strategic hedging’. This approach allows the continental body to avoid rigid binary alignments - such as choosing between the United States and China or taking a hardline position in the war between the US/Israel and Iran. In what has also been called strategic autonomy (Biscop, 2022; El Bikam, Zita, & Oumar, 2017), the AU wants enough room to maximise developmental benefits while engaging multiple global poles simultaneously.

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