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| Title: | Routledge handbook of African security |
| Editor: | Hentz, James J. |
| Year: | 2014 |
| Pages: | 368 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Routledge handbooks |
| City of publisher: | London |
| Publisher: | Routledge |
| ISBN: | 9780415682145; 9780203682142 |
| Geographic term: | Africa |
| Subjects: | national security regional security human security international relations |
| Abstract: | Africa is home to most of the world's current conflicts, and security is a key issue. However, African security can only be understood by employing different levels of analysis: the individual (human security), the State (national security), and the region (regional security). Each of these levels provides analytical tools for understanding what could be called the 'African security predicament'. This collective volume contains contributions on by thirty authors on different aspects of security in Africa. The first part analyses general issues such as conflict and war, developmental versus failed States, terrorism and counterterrorism, State boundaries and regional collapse, and peacekeeping after the Cold War. Part two, on understanding conflict in Africa, deals with African guerrillas, resources and conflict, the State system and Africa's permanent instability, security sector reform, humanitarian aid and conflict, separatism, the gendered subject of violence, and conflict and the environment. Part three looks at regionalism, including the role of the African Union, ECOWAS-AU relations, the SADC and South Africa, IGAD and regional security in the Horn, and regional security cooperation in central Africa. The final part discusses external influences, notably the role of China in African security, the EU's Africa policy, US security policy in sub-Saharan Africa, the role of the United Nations, the Afro-Arab security nexus, and France's Africa defence and security policy. [ASC Leiden abstract] |
