Expanding US Military Command in Africa (eBook, ePUB)

Elites, Networks and Grand Strategy
Redaktion: Gwatiwa, Tshepo; Merwe, Justin van der

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book discusses the systematic expansion of the United States Africa Command (AFRICOM) across the continent of Africa.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 188
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429832079
• Artikelnr.: 60671046

Autorenporträt

Tshepo Gwatiwa is a Research Associate at the African Centre for the Study of the United States (ACSUS) at University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, and a lecturer in the Department of International Relations at the same institution. Justin van der Merwe is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Military Studies (CEMIS) at Stellenbosch University, South Africa.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introducing AFRICOM Expansion in Africa Tshepo Gwatiwa and Justin van
der Merwe 2. Expanding US Africa Command: Reintegrating Africa within the
US's System of Accumulation Justin van der Merwe 3. The Significance of
Multilateral Diplomacy in the Formation of US Africa Command: Reflections
on US Africa Policy and Engagement from Bush through Obama, 2000-2016
Michael A. Battle 4. The Genesis and Origins of AFRICOM William M. Wyatt
5. AFRICOM'S Military Base in Djibouti: a History of Its Advancement
Degang Sun and Yahia H. Zoubir 6. Intelligence, Surveillance and
Reconnaissance in the Expansion of AFRICOM: Africa in America's
"Panopticon" Tshepo Gwatiwa 7. Security, Circulation and Biopolitics: US
Africa Command's Response to Ebola Catriona Gold 8. The Economic and
Business Side of US AFRICOM in Africa: Governments, Land Lease, Aid,
Corporations and Military Expansion in Djibouti Ditabeng Mokoena and Tshepo
Gwatiwa 9. The US Africa Command and [Under]Development in Africa: an
Appraisal of the USA's Securitization of Development in Africa
Khayalandile Lwando Mthamo 10. Agenda-Setting or Reinforcement? The African
Media's Reporting and its Impact on AFRICOM's Soft Power Oluwaseun Tella
11. Conclusion - Imprinting Infrastructural and Affective Labour in Africa
Justin van der Merwe