African Security and the African Command : : Viewpoints on the US Role in Africa / / ed. by Terry Buss, Donald Goldstein, Joseph Adjaye.
In 2007, the Bush administration created a new military presence in Africa—AFRICOM (US Africa Command)—which has been vigorously debated ever since. Some see AFRICOM as the answer to an African security system crippled by a lack of resources, widespread politicization, and institutional weakness. Ot...
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Place / Publishing House: | Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2011] Kumarian Press, , [2011] ©2011 |
Year of Publication: | 2011 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (277 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part 1 The African Command: An Overview
- 1 African Security Challenges and AFRICOM: An Overview
- 2 Assessing the AFRICOM Debates: The Three Ds as a Policy Framework
- Part 2 The Command Debate
- 3 AFRICOM’s Strategic Assumptions
- 4 AFRICOM: A View from Below: What Security? Whose Security?
- 5 AFRICOM: African Concerns and Criticism
- Part 3 Trade, Energy, and Commerce
- 6 Energy Security and Global Competition in Africa
- 7 China in Africa: An AFRICOM Issue?
- 8 AFRICOM and the Private Sector
- Part 4 African Security and Counterterrorism
- 9 AFRICOM and the Horn of Africa: Toward Terms of Partnership
- 10 Small Arms and Big Trouble
- 11 Al-Qaeda in Africa: The Threat and Response
- Part 5 Future Prospects and Problems
- 12 Changes in US Policy on Africa in the Obama Administration: What Will It Mean for AFRICOM?
- 13 What AFRICOM Says about US Foreign Policy
- Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Selected Bibliography
- Index