Hentz - Routledge Handbook of African Security

This new Handbook examines the issues, challenges, and debates surrounding the problem of security in Africa.

Africa is home to most of the worlds current conflicts, and security is a key issue. However, African security can only be understood by employing different levels of analysis: the individual (human security), the state (national/state security), and the region (regional/international security). Each of these levels provides analytical tools for understanding what could be called the African security predicament and these debates are animated by the new security issues: immigration, small arms transfers, gangs and domestic crime, HIV/AIDS, transnational crime, poverty, and environmental degradation. African security therefore not only presents concrete challenges for international security but provides a real-world context for challenging conventional conceptions of security.

Drawing together contributions from a wide range of key thinkers in the field, the Routledge Handbook of African Security engages with these debates, and is organized into four parts:

: The African security predicament in the twenty-first century;

: Understanding conflict in Africa;

: Regionalism and Africa;

: External influences.

This Handbook will be of great interest to students of African politics, human security, global security, war and conflict studies, peacebuilding, and IR in general.

James J. Hentz is Professor and Chair of the Department of International Studies and Political Science at the Virginia Military Institute. He is the co-editor of New and Critical Security and Regionalism: Beyond the Nation State (2003), editor of Obligation of Empire: U.S. Grand Strategy for a New Century (2004), and author of South Africa and the Logic of Regional Cooperation (2005) and The Nature of War in Africa (forthcoming). He is also editor-in-chief of the leading journal African Security.

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Routledge handbook of African security / edited by James J. Hentz.

pages cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Security, InternationalAfrica. 2. National securityAfrica. 3. Public safetyAfrica. I. Hentz, James J.

JZ6009.A35R68 2013

355.03306--dc23

2013003822

ISBN: 978-0-415-68214-5 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-0-203-68214-2 (ebk)

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James J. Hentz

Kwesi Aning and Naila Salihu

William Reno

Timothy M. Shaw

J. Peter Pham

James J. Hentz and Thomas Blevins

Paul D.Williams

Morten Bs and Kevin Dunn

Jessica Piombo

Ian S. Spears

Anthoni van Nieuwkerk

Terrence Lyons

Pierre Englebert

Maria Eriksson Baaz and Maria Stern

Kevin Dunn

Daniel C. Bach

Ulf Engel and Joo Gomes Porto

Cyril Obi

Stephen Burgess

Sally Healy

Angela Meyer

Ian Taylor

Belachew Gebrewold

Louis J. Nigro, Jr. and Nicolas J. Lovelace

John F. Clark

Hussein Solomon

Boubacar NDiaye

Kwesi Aning is Director of the Faculty of Academic Affairs and Research (FAAR) of the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre, Accra, Ghana. He obtained his PhD from the University of Copenhagen, Denmark and serves on several academic boards. He has extensive publications.

Maria Eriksson Baaz is Associate Professor and Senior Researcher at the Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala, and the School of Global Studies, Gothenburg, Sweden Nordic Africa Institute. Her research interests include gender and war; masculinity and militarism; gender and defense and police reform in post-conflict contexts. Her most recent book, co-written with Maria Stern, is Sexual Violence as a Weapon of War? Perceptions, Prescriptions, Problems in the Congo and Beyond (Zed Books 2013).

Daniel C. Bach is Director of Research of the CNRS (National Centre for Scientific Research) at the Emile Durkheim Centre for Comparative Political Science and Sociology, University of Bordeaux, and professor at Sciences Po Bordeaux. He is also an associate of the Trade and Law Centre in Stellenbosch. His latest publications in English include The European Union and Africa: trade liberalization, constructive disengagement and the securitization of Europes external frontiers (Africa Review 3.1.2011) and (co-edited with M. Gazibo) The Neopatrimonial State in Africa and Beyond (Routledge 2012).

Thomas Blevins is at the Virginia Military Institute, majoring in International Studies and Political Science. He has studied African affairs both at the Virginia Military Institute and abroad. This study abroad was a semester at Stellenbosch University in South Africa, and another semester studying Swahili in Zanzibar. The latter semester was awarded through a David L. Boren National Security Education Program scholarship. He is an Ensign in the United States Navy.

Morten Bs is Senior Researcher at FAFOs Institute for Applied International Studies. He has published extensively on African politics, including in The Journal of Modern African Studies, Third World Quarterly, African Spectrum, and Global Governance. He is co-editor with Kevin Dunn of African Guerrillas: Raging against the Machine (Lynne Rienner Publishers 2007).

Stephen Burgess is Professor of International Security at the US Air War College. His three books are South Africas Weapons of Mass Destruction (Indiana University Press 2005), Smallholders and Political Voice in Zimbabwe (University Press of America 1997), and The United Nations under Boutros Boutros-Ghali, 199297 (Scarecrow Press 2001). He has published numerous articles and book chapters on African security and strategic issues.

John F. Clark is Professor of Politics and International Relations at Florida International University (Miami). A former Fulbright Professor in Uganda, he is author of The Failure of Democracy in the Republic of Congo