TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sasaoka,Yūichi
AU  - Sumo Tayo,Aimé Raoul
AU  - Uesu,Sayoko
TI  - Perspectives on the state borders in globalized Africa
T2  - Routledge advances in international relations and global politics
SN  - 9781003202318
U1  - 305.80096 
PY  - 2022///
CY  - London, New York, NY
PB  - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
KW  - Borderlands
KW  - Africa
KW  - Border security
KW  - Transnationalism
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Globalization
KW  - Boundaries
N1  - New perspectives on the African state borders / Sasaoka -- From contested borders to cross-border cooperation in the Lake Chad Basin : stakes and challenges / Sumo -- A porous border and economic activity in the Kampala Kinshasa market, West Nile, Northern Africa / Yamizaki -- Cross-border refugee crisis and local governments in the West Nile Region, Uganda / Kamei -- Mobility as a culture in rural Africa / Sekiya -- Micro-regionalism in Southern Africa / Sasaoka -- Transnational violent actors in the borderlands of the Sahel and challenges for stabilization : any role for Japan? / Uesu -- Insecurity in the Horn of Africa and IGAD / Takezawa -- The hardening of African borders in the era of growing security threats and the Global War on Terror / Sumo -- Porous boudaries and anisotropic mobility : migration and cross-border trade between Nigeria and Japan / Matsumoto -- Decentralization and conflict prevention in East Africa / Sasaoka
N2  - "Assessing the different kinds of borders between African nations, the contributors present a borderland and trans-region approach to understanding the challenges and opportunities facing the peoples of the African continent. Africa faces rampant violence, terrorism, deterioration of water-energy-food provision, influxes of refugees and immigrants, and religious hatred under the trends of globalization. Solutions for these issues require new perspectives that are not attempted by conventional state building approaches. Statehood is limited in many places on the African continent, because many states are combined by loose political ties. African states' borders tend to be regarded as porous and fragile. However, as the contributors to this volume argue, it is possible that porous borders can contribute to cultural and socio-economic network construction beyond states and the creation of active borderlands by increasing people's mobility, contact, and trade. A must read for scholars of African studies, that will also be of great value to academics and students with a broader interest in nationhood, globalization and borders"--
UR  - https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003202318
ER  -