Securing Africa local crises and foreign interventions / [electronic resource] :
edited by Toyin Falola and Charles Thomas.
- New York : Routledge, 2014.
- 1 online resource (viii, 257 p.)
- Routledge African studies ; 12 .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The changing conception of African security / The external military operations of southern Rhodesia and Zimbabwe (1895-2005) / Afrikaner influence on the IRA and SOE / Fear and money : the strategic propaganda conflict during the Zimbabwean war for liberation / Sub-Saharan Africa, a key issue for France in the Cold War / A question of stability : the international response to Portuguese imperialism in the 1960s / Cuba and South Africa : regionalism and internationalism, ideology and conflict in southern Africa during the Cold War / Kidnapping : the terror of the 21st century? lessons from southeastern Nigeria / A new tool for the toolbox : a historiographical essay on twenty years of environmental history and why it matters to soldiers / Kidnapping business and penalties for kidnapping as a part of Niger Delta conflict / Insecurity in the troubled seas : the US and Kenya face terrorism in eastern Africa / Africa and AFRICOM : United States security interests in Africa / The legality of ECOWAS intervention in peace support in terms of the UN charter / Securing peace in Burundi : external interventions to end the civil war, 1993-2006 / Charles Thomas -- Timothy Stapleton -- Aaron Linderman -- Blake Whitaker -- Aurelien Poilbout -- R. Joseph Parrot -- Cranston Knight -- Joseph Eberechukwu Akonye -- John Ringquist -- Raimonda Iskauakaite -- Hannington Ochwada -- Chris Agoha -- Kevwe Omoragbon -- Josiah Marineau. Introduction. Historical interventions, the local to the global -- Historical interventions, the global to the local -- Current and ongoing crises in Africa -- The international dimension of current African security --
9780203583852 (ebook : PDF)
Conflict management--Africa. Internal security--Africa. National security--Africa.
Africa--Foreign relations--1960- Africa--Politics and government--1960-