Rethinking security in Nigeria : conceptual issues in the quest for social order and national integration / / edited by Dapo Adelugba & Philip Ogo Ujomu.

• Superior document: Codesria book series
• Author: Codesria.
• TeilnehmendeR: Adelugba, Dapo.; Ujomu, Philip Ogo.; Codesria.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Series: Codesria book series.
• Physical Description: x, 162 p.

Table of Contents

Introduction: a preface to the understanding of the aesthetic and ethical imperatives for viable national security in the post-colonial African state / Dapo Adelugba -- The bounds of security theorising: envisioning discursive inputs for the rectification of a post-colonial situation / Philip Ogo Ujomu -- An aesthetic theorising of the challenge of national security in the post-colonial context / Philip Ogo Ujomu and Dapo Adelugba -- Rethinking traditional security in Africa: the reconstruction of the cosmological foundations of security / Dapo Adelugba -- Cultural dimensions of the national security problem / Olusegun Oladiran and Irene Omolola Adadevoh -- The gender dimensions of the national security and human security problematic: core theoretical, conceptual and historical issues / Irene Omolola Adadevoh -- Rethinking ethical security in the light of European institutional security and integration strategies: the quest for methodological convergence / Aduke G. Adebayo.