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]
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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