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Title: | Security culture, transnational challenges and the Economic Community of West African States |
Authors: | Williams, Paul D. Haacke, Jürgen |
Year: | 2008 |
Periodical: | Journal of Contemporary African Studies |
Volume: | 26 |
Issue: | 2 |
Pages: | 119-136 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | West Africa |
Subjects: | ECOWAS regional security |
External link: | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02589000802124813 |
Abstract: | Introduction to a special issue which explores how one particular regional organization, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), has defined certain transnational issues as security threats and how it has addressed them. In this introductory article, the authors begin by providing an overview and analysis of some of the most important transnational security challenges facing West Africa. Specifically, they discuss some of the problems raised by cross-border insurgencies, health challenges, organized criminal activities, terrorism and environmental degradation. They then examine the different levels - global, continential, regional, State, sub-State - at which actors have responded to these challenges. The next section sets out an approach to thinking about the concept of security culture and asks whether it might be relevant to understanding how and why ECOWAS has focused on responding to certain transnational security challenges and not to others. The final section provides an overview of the other articles in the issue. Bibliogr., notes, sum. [Journal abstract] |