Routledge Handbook of African Security

Herausgeber: Hentz, James J

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This new Handbook examines the issues, challenges, and debates surrounding security in Africa.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 174mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 630g
• ISBN-13: 9781138308329
• ISBN-10: 1138308323
• Artikelnr.: 48820499

Autorenporträt

James J. Hentz is Professor and Chair of the Department of International Studies and Political Science at the Virginia Military Institute. He is the co-editor of New and Critical Security and Regionalism: Beyond the Nation State (2003), editor of Obligation of Empire: U.S. Grand Strategy for a New Century (2004), and author of South Africa and the Logic of Regional Cooperation (2005) and The Nature of War in Africa (forthcoming). He is also editor-in-chief of the leading journal African Security.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: The African Security Predicament in the 21st Century 1. Introduction
James J. Hentz 2. The African Security Predicament
Kwesi Aning
Kofi Annan and Naila Salihu 3. Conflict and War in Africa
William Reno 4: Human Security versus National Security in Africa: Developmental versus Failed States among the Rest
Timothy M. Shaw 5. Africa and Terrorism
Peter Pham and Michael S. Ansari 6. States
Boundaries
and Regional Collapse in Sub-Sahara Africa
James J. Hentz and Thomas Blevins 7. Peacekeeping in Africa after the Cold War: Trends and Challenges
Paul D. Williams and George Washington University Part II: Understanding Conflict in Africa 8. Understanding African Guerrillas - From Liberation Struggles to Warlordism and International Terrorism?
Morten Bøås and Kevin C. Dunn 9. Resources and Conflict in Sub-Saharan Africa
Jessica Piombo 10. The State System and Africa's Permanent Instability
Ian S. Spears 11. Security Sector Reform in Africa
Anthoni van Nieuwkerk 12. Humanitarian Aid and Conflict: From Humanitarian Neutralism to Humanitarian Intervention
Terrence Lyons 13. Separatism in Africa
Pierre Englebert 14. The Gendered Subject of Violence in African Countries
Maria Eriksson Baaz and Maria Stern 15. The Environment and Conflict in Africa
Kevin Dunn Part III: Regionalism and Africa 16. Regionalism in Africa: Concepts and Context
Daniel C. Bach 17. The African Union and African Security
Ulf Engel and João Gomes Porto 18. ECOWAS-AU Security Relations
Cyril Obi 19. The Southern African Development Community (SADC) and Africa
Stephen Burgess 20. IGAD and Regional Security in the Horn
Sally Healy 21. Regional Security Cooperation in Central Africa: What Perspectives after Ten Years of Peace and Security Operations?
Angela Meyer Part IV: External Influences 22. China's Role in African Security
Ian Taylor 23. Comprehensive Security vs. Competing Interests: The EU's Africa Policy on a Balancing Act
Belachew Gebrewold 24. U.S. Security Policy in Sub-Sahara Africa after the Cold War
Louis J. Nigro
Jr.
Nicolas J. Lovelace 25. The United Nations and African Security
John F. Clark 26. The Afro-Arab Security Nexus
Hussein Solomon 27. Still 'Getting Away With It': France's Africa Defense and Security Policy
Boubacar N'Diay