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Established scholars in Africa, Europe, and the United States provide a novel conceptual and policy frame-
glocalization-to understand the domestic and external drivers of conflicts in Africa through studies that cover relevant and pressing cases of international and regional security, such as Libya, Mali, Kenya, Nigeria, and Congo.
List of contents
Introduction
Local Issues and Global Connections in African SecurityABU BAKARR BAH
Chapter 1 African Realities and Knowledge Production
Conceptions of Civil Wars, International Interventions, and State BuildingABU BAKARR BAH AND NIKOLAS EMMANUEL
Chapter 2 Proscription Regimes and the Internationalization of National Security Threats
Countering Terrorism in NigeriaFOLAHANMI AINA
Chapter 3 Countering Violent Extremism through Community Policing in Likoni, Mombasa, Kenya
JOHN MWANGI GITHIGARO
Chapter 4 Militarized Response to Domestic, Regional, and International Security Issues in Nigeria and Uganda
MICHAEL NWANKPA
Chapter 5 The Conundrums of International Military Interventions in Africa
The Cases of Côte d’Ivoire and MaliALFRED BABO
Chapter 6 African Agency in Securitization
Assimilating International CapacitiesTENLEY K. ERICKSON
Chapter 7 The African Union on the Periphery of Peacebuilding
The Role of External Powers and Regional Bodies in LibyaNORMAN SEMPIJJA, AKRAM ZAOUI, AND NOAMANE CHERKAOUI
Contributors
Index
About the author
Abu Bakarr Bah is Presidential Research Professor of Sociology at Northern Illinois University and founding director of the Institute for Research and Policy Integration in Africa. He is also editor in chief of
African Conflict & Peacebuilding Review and African editor for
Critical Sociology. His works include
Post-Conflict Institutional Design: Peacebuilding and Democracy in Africa; International Security and Peacebuilding: Africa, the Middle East, and Europe; and
Breakdown and Reconstitution: Democracy, the Nation-State, and Ethnicity in Nigeria, as well as articles in numerous journals.
Summary
Established scholars in Africa, Europe, and the United States provide a novel conceptual and policy frame—glocalization—to understand the domestic and external drivers of conflicts in Africa through studies that cover relevant and pressing cases of international and regional security, such as Libya, Mali, Kenya, Nigeria, and Congo.
