{"product_id":"african-security-local-issues-and-global-connections-paperback-softback-9780821425503","title":"African Security; Local Issues and Global Connections (Paperback \/ softback) 9780821425503","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eAfrican Security\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eLocal Issues and Global Connections\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAbu Bakarr Bah (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780821425503\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 28 May 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e256 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.4 cm, 0.365 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eDurable solutions to Africa’s multiple security challenges continue to be elusive. Proposing an insightful conceptual framework, this excellent volume presents deeply nuanced and contextual case studies of key security challenges on the continent. This book will be an invaluable resource for scholars and policymakers attempting to make sense of Africa’s multiple security challenges. - Leonardo A. Villalón, University of Florida One of the most worrying developments of recent years has been the growing number of African citizens who feel unsafe in their own homes. A solution to this problem is urgently needed if it is not to have dramatic consequences for development and democracy. \u003ci\u003eAfrican Security: Local Issues and Global Connections \u003c\/i\u003ecould therefore hardly be more timely or vital. The fresh insights in this volume go a long way to explaining the most effective ways to enhance security-and, just as importantly, the things to avoid. An important contribution. - Nic Cheeseman, University of Birmingham This pathbreaking book encapsulates new thinking on how the combination of domestic and externally driven factors both reshape and redefine emerging conflict dynamics in Africa, and underpin new transformations of security and insecurities-aptly framed using the lens of \u003ci\u003eglocalization\u003c\/i\u003e. It also offers new homegrown options for transcending glocalized African insecurities. - Cyril Obi, African Peacebuilding Network\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAfrican Security: Local Issues and Global Connections\u003c\/i\u003e provokes new ways of thinking about solutions to African security-solutions that consider the eclectic and sometimes disparate natures of African conflicts and that address both their domestic and their external dimensions. The book centers on the concept of \u003ci\u003eglocalized\u003c\/i\u003e security, which draws from sociological critiques that point to localization within globalization. This edited collection brings the concept of glocalization into African security studies by examining the fusion of domestic and external drivers of conflicts and how that relationship creates a glocalized security situation across Africa.\u003cbr\u003e The chapters in this volume engage the literature on domestic and external causes of conflicts in Africa, most notably issues of patrimonialism, ethnicity, natural resources, climate change, and geopolitics. These conflict drivers are woven in with known theories on security, such as neocolonialism, liberal peace, responsibility to protect (R2P), and collective security. The book presents rich qualitative and historical data, convincingly analyzed and theorized.\u003cbr\u003e Contributors: Folahanmi Aina, Alfred Babo, Abu Bakarr Bah, Noamane Cherkaoui, Nikolas Emmanuel, Tenley K. Erickson, John Mwangi Githigaro, Michael Nwankpa, Norman Sempijja, and Akram Zaoui\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eLocal Issues and Global Connections in African Security\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ABU BAKARR BAH \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 1 African Realities and Knowledge Production\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eConceptions of Civil Wars, International Interventions, and State Building\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ABU BAKARR BAH AND NIKOLAS EMMANUEL \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2 Proscription Regimes and the Internationalization of National Security Threats\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eCountering Terrorism in Nigeria\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e FOLAHANMI AINA \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3 Countering Violent Extremism through Community Policing in Likoni, Mombasa, Kenya\u003cbr\u003e JOHN MWANGI GITHIGARO \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4 Militarized Response to Domestic, Regional, and International Security Issues in Nigeria and Uganda\u003cbr\u003e MICHAEL NWANKPA \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5 The Conundrums of International Military Interventions in Africa\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Cases of Côte d’Ivoire and Mali\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ALFRED BABO \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6 African Agency in Securitization\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAssimilating International Capacities\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e TENLEY K. ERICKSON\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7 The African Union on the Periphery of Peacebuilding\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Role of External Powers and Regional Bodies in Libya\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e NORMAN SEMPIJJA, AKRAM ZAOUI, AND NOAMANE CHERKAOUI \u003cbr\u003e Contributors \u003cbr\u003e Index \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Ohio University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52574555242776,"sku":"9780821425503","price":24.37,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/african-security-local-issues-and-global-connections-paperback-softback-9780821425503","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}