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.)

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...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Foreword
• 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