West Africa's Security Challenges: Building Peace in a Troubled Region

Published by Lynne Rienner Publishers 2004

West Africa's Security Challenges

Building Peace in a Troubled Region

Edited by: Adekey Adebajo and Ismail Rashid

In the series A project of the International Peace Institute

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781685855291

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About this book

Among the world’s most unstable regions, West Africa in the last decade has experienced a web of conflicts with profound and wide-ranging effects. West Africa’s Security Challenges is the first comprehensive assessment of the resulting mix of setbacks and progress. The authors provide a context for understanding the region’s security dilemmas, highlighting the link between failures of economic development, governance, and democratization on the one hand and military insecurity and violent conflicts on the other. The role of key regional and external actors in foiling—and sometimes fueling—conflicts is also examined. The result is an analysis that is not only academically rigorous, but relevant to current policy debates.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Foreword David M. Malone Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Foreword Mohamed Ibn Chambas Publicly Available Download PDF	XI
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	XV
Map of ECOWAS States Publicly Available Download PDF	XVIII
1 Introduction Adekeye Adebajo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
PART I Context
2 ECOWAS: A Retrospective Journey Adebayo Adedeji Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
3 The Travails of Integration S. K. B. Asante Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	51
4 The Dilemmas of Regionalization Daniel C. Bach Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	69
PART 2 Challenges
5 Governance and Democratization Amos Sawyer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	91
6 The Fifth Wave of Pan-Africanism Christopher Landsberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	117
7 Civil-Military Relations Jimmy D. Kandeh Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
8 Rebel Movements Ibrahim Abdullah and Ismail Rashid Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
9 The Political Economy of Conflict Eboe Hutchful and Kwesi Aning Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	195
10 Small Arms, Light Weapons Comfort Ero and Angela Ndinga-Muvumba Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	223
11 Children and Armed Conflict Funmi Olonisakin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	245
PART 3 Regional and External Actors
12 Civil Society Yasmin Jusu-Sheriff Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	263
13 Pax West Africana? Regional Security Mechanisms Adekeye Adebajo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	291
14 The United Nations James O. C. Jonah Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	319
15 France, Britain, and the United States Kaye Whiteman and Douglas Yates Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	349
PART 4 Conclusion
16 West Africa's Post-Cold War Security Challenges Ismail Rashid Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	381
Acronyms Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	395
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	401
The Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	419
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	425
About the Book Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	449

Language: English
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 449

eBook

Published: April 1, 2005
ISBN: 9781685855291