West Africa's Security Challenges : : Building Peace in a Troubled Region / / ed. by Ismail Rashid, Adekey Adebajo.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Lynne Rienner Press Complete eBook-Package 2013-2000
• MitwirkendeR: Abdullah, Ibrahim,; Adebajo, Adekeye,; Adedeji, Adebayo,; Aning, Kwesi,; Asante, S. K. B.,; Bach, Daniel C.,; Ero, Comfort,; Hutchful, Eboe,; Ibn Chambas, Mohamed,; Jonah, James O. C.,; Jusu-Sheriff, Yasmin,; Kandeh, Jimmy D.,; Landsberg, Christopher,; Malone, David M.,; Ndinga-Muvumba, Angela,; Olonisakin, Funmi,; Rashid, Ismail,; Sawyer, Amos,; Whiteman, Kaye,; Yates, Douglas,
• HerausgeberIn: Adebajo, Adekey,; Rashid, Ismail,
• Place / Publishing House: Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2023]; ©2004
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: A project of the International Peace Institute
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (449 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Foreword --; Acknowledgments --; Map of ECOWAS States --; 1 Introduction --; PART I Context --; 2 ECOWAS: A Retrospective Journey --; 3 The Travails of Integration --; 4 The Dilemmas of Regionalization --; PART 2 Challenges --; 5 Governance and Democratization --; 6 The Fifth Wave of Pan-Africanism --; 7 Civil-Military Relations --; 8 Rebel Movements --; 9 The Political Economy of Conflict --; 10 Small Arms, Light Weapons --; 11 Children and Armed Conflict --; PART 3 Regional and External Actors --; 12 Civil Society --; 13 Pax West Africana? Regional Security Mechanisms --; 14 The United Nations --; 15 France, Britain, and the United States --; PART 4 Conclusion --; 16 West Africa's Post-Cold War Security Challenges --; Acronyms --; Bibliography --; The Contributors --; Index --; About the Book
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781685855291; 9783110784251
• DOI: 10.1515/9781685855291
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Ismail Rashid, Adekey Adebajo.

Among the world’s most unstable regions, West Africa in the last decade has experienced a web of conflicts with profound and wide-ranging effects. West Africa’s Security Challenges is the first comprehensive assessment of the resulting mix of setbacks and progress. The authors provide a context for understanding the region’s security dilemmas, highlighting the link between failures of economic development, governance, and democratization on the one hand and military insecurity and violent conflicts on the other. The role of key regional and external actors in foiling—and sometimes fueling—conflicts is also examined. The result is an analysis that is not only academically rigorous, but relevant to current policy debates.