African Interventions
State Militaries, Foreign Powers, and Rebel Forces

A rich and accessible examination of military intervention on the African continent, from both foreign and African military actors.

Emizet F. Kisangani (Author), Jeffrey Pickering (Author)

9781108426220, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 11 November 2021

292 pages
23.5 x 15.8 x 2.4 cm, 0.63 kg

'Kisangani and Pickering provide a comprehensive review of interstate conflict in Africa since many countries there achieved independence in the twentieth century.' Nicolas van de Walle, Foreign Affairs

Foreign military intervention has had a profound impact on post-colonial African history and politics. Interventions have destabilized borderlands, overthrown governments, and taken a devastating toll on populations. Emizet F. Kisangani and Jeffrey Pickering advance a new theoretical framework and combine quantitative, qualitative, and historical methods to shed fresh light on these important but understudied events. Their detailed analysis brings understanding to supportive and hostile interventions and to interventions by former colonial states, non-colonial foreign actors, and African countries. Kisangani and Pickering also analyse military incursions into ungoverned territories and lands engulfed in civil war. Showcasing a variety of examples from the Second Congo War to the Ethiopian-Eritrean conflict, the book offers a rich and accessible examination of military intervention on the continent.

1. Context and issues of international military intervention
2. Non-Colonial military intervention in Africa
3. Military intervention by former colonial powers in Africa
4. Intra-African hostile military intervention
5. Intra-African supportive military intervention
6. African intervention into failed states
Index.

Subject Areas: Warfare & defence [JW], Geopolitics [JPSL], Political science & theory [JPA]