Liberias Civil War: Nigeria, ECOMOG, and Regional Security in West Africa

Adekeye Adebajo

Published by Lynne Rienner Publishers 2007

Liberias Civil War

Nigeria, ECOMOG, and Regional Security in West Africa

Adekeye Adebajo

In the series A project of the International Peace Institute

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781626371125

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Liberia's Civil War offers the most in-depth account available of one of the most baffling and intractable of Africa's conflicts. Adekeye Adebajo unravels the tangled web of the conflict by addressing four questions: Why did Nigeria intervene in Liberia and remain committed throughout the seven-year civil war? To what extend was ECOMOG's intervention shaped by Nigeria's hegemonic aspirations? What domestic, regional, and external factors prevented ECOMOG from achieving its objectives for so long? And what factors led eventually to the end of the war? In answering these questions--drawing on previously restricted ECOWAS and UN reports and numerous interviews with key actors--he sheds much-needed light on security issues in West Africa. The concluding chapter of the book assesses the continuing insecurity in Liberia under the repressive presidency of Charles Taylor and its destabilizing effect on the entire West Africa region.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
FOREWORD David M Malone Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
FOREWORD Amos Sawyer Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
Map of Liberia Publicly Available Download PDF	xv
1 Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2 A Decade of Troubles: Master-Sergeant Samuel Doe’s Liberia, 1980–1989 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
Part 1 Journey Without Maps, December 1989–December 1992
3 Things Fall Apart, December 1989–August 1990 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	39
4 Seamen from Renaissance Africa, August 1990–December 1991 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	73
5 Annus Horribilis: The Death of Yamoussoukro, January–December 1992 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	101
Part 2 Waging War to Keep Peace, January 1993–August 1994
6 The Bloody Road to Cotonou, January–July 1993 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	117
7 The Tortuous Road to Akosombo, August 1993–August 1994 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	131
Part 3 A Banquet for the Warlords, September 1994–July 1997
8 The Pied Piper of Accra, September 1994–August 1995 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	153
9 Two Weddings and a Funeral, September 1995–August 1996 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	181
10 Farewell to Arms? September 1996–July 1997 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	201
Part 4 The Bloody Waters of the Mano River, July 1997–August 2001
11 A Warlord’s Bazaar, July 1997–August 2001 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	229
12 CONCLUSION Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	241
ACRONYMS & ABBREVIATIONS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	255
BIBLIOGRAPHY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	257
INDEX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	267
ABOUT THE BOOK Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	285

Language: English
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 285

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Published: July 1, 2007
ISBN: 9781626371125