TY - BOOK AU - Falola,Toyin AU - Thomas,Charles TI - Securing Africa: local crises and foreign interventions SN - 9780203583852 (ebook : PDF) PY - 2014/// CY - New York PB - Routledge KW - Conflict management KW - Africa KW - Internal security KW - National security KW - Foreign relations KW - 1960- KW - Politics and government N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction; The changing conception of African security; Charles Thomas --; Historical interventions, the local to the global --; The external military operations of southern Rhodesia and Zimbabwe (1895-2005); Timothy Stapleton --; Afrikaner influence on the IRA and SOE; Aaron Linderman --; Fear and money : the strategic propaganda conflict during the Zimbabwean war for liberation; Blake Whitaker --; Historical interventions, the global to the local --; Sub-Saharan Africa, a key issue for France in the Cold War; Aurelien Poilbout --; A question of stability : the international response to Portuguese imperialism in the 1960s; R. Joseph Parrot --; Cuba and South Africa : regionalism and internationalism, ideology and conflict in southern Africa during the Cold War; Cranston Knight --; Current and ongoing crises in Africa --; Kidnapping : the terror of the 21st century? lessons from southeastern Nigeria; Joseph Eberechukwu Akonye --; A new tool for the toolbox : a historiographical essay on twenty years of environmental history and why it matters to soldiers; John Ringquist --; Kidnapping business and penalties for kidnapping as a part of Niger Delta conflict; Raimonda Iskauakaite --; Insecurity in the troubled seas : the US and Kenya face terrorism in eastern Africa; Hannington Ochwada --; The international dimension of current African security --; Africa and AFRICOM : United States security interests in Africa; Chris Agoha --; The legality of ECOWAS intervention in peace support in terms of the UN charter; Kevwe Omoragbon --; Securing peace in Burundi : external interventions to end the civil war, 1993-2006; Josiah Marineau UR - http://www.tandfebooks.com/isbn/9780203583852 ER -