New Security Threats and Crises in Africa

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xx

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2. Introduction: Evolving Security Discourse and Crises in Africa: Conceptual, Policy, and Practical Relevance

   1. Introduction: Evolving Security Discourse and Crises in Africa: Conceptual, Policy, and Practical Relevance

      • Jack Mangala

      Pages 1-15

3. New Security Threats: African and International Perspectives

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17

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   2. The African Union and Security in Africa

      • Jamila El Abdellaoui

      Pages 19-38

   3. Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons: From Humanitarian to Security Paradigm

      • Jack Mangala

      Pages 39-57

   4. Africa’s Responses to International Terrorism and the War against It

      • Abdul Karim Bangura, Billie D. Tate

      Pages 59-85

   5. Climate Change and the Risk of Conflict in Africa

      • Oli Brown, Alec Crawford

      Pages 87-109

   6. Securing Africa’s Food Security: Current Constraints and Future Options

      • Daniel D. Karanja

      Pages 111-127

   7. Confronting Africa’s Health Challenges

      • Jeremy Youde

      Pages 129-146

4. The International Community and African Crises

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 147-147

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   2. Darfur and the International Community: Self-determination, State building, and “The Responsibility to Protect”

      • M. A. Mohamed Salih

      Pages 149-170

   3. The International Community and Congo’s Recent Crises

      • John F. Clark

      Pages 171-190

   4. International Organizations and Civil Wars in Africa: The Liberian Case

      • George Klay Kieh Jr.

      Pages 191-212

   5. International Actors and Côte d’lvoire’s Political and Economic Crises

      • Abdul Karim Bangura

      Pages 213-246

   6. A Crisis with an Origin: Proposing a Framework for Local and International Engagement in Zimbabwe

      • Mambo G. Mupepi

      Pages 247-272

5. Back Matter

   Pages 273-276

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This book is a multidisciplinary approach to Africa's international relations in an era of globalization and the shifting of power from the West. It moves beyond colonization, marginalization, imperialism to look at the forces and dynamics that are reshaping Africa's external relations today.

• cold war
• conflict
• democracy
• Europe
• European Union (EU)
• Front
• globalization
• Institution
• international relations
• migration
• nationalism
• Policy
• politics
• terrorism

• Grand Valley State University, USA

  Jack Mangala

Jack Mangala is an Associate Professor of Political Science and African and African American Studies at Grand Valley State University, where he also serves both as the Director of the African and African American Studies Program and the Director of the Area Studies Center in the Brooks College of Interdisciplinary Studies. He is co-author of Assessing George W. Bush’s Policies toward Africa: Proposals for the New U.S. President and African Leaders.

Policies and ethics