New Security Threats and Crises in Africa
Regional and International Perspectives
Editors: Mangala, J. (Ed.)
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- About this book
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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.
- About the authors
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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.
- Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Introduction: Evolving Security Discourse and Crises in Africa: Conceptual, Policy, and Practical Relevance
Pages 1-15
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The African Union and Security in Africa
Pages 19-38
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Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons: From Humanitarian to Security Paradigm
Pages 39-57
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Africa’s Responses to International Terrorism and the War against It
Pages 59-85
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Climate Change and the Risk of Conflict in Africa
Pages 87-109
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- New Security Threats and Crises in Africa
- Book Subtitle
- Regional and International Perspectives
- Editors
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- J. Mangala
- Copyright
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan US
- Copyright Holder
- Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc.
- eBook ISBN
- 978-0-230-11553-8
- DOI
- 10.1057/9780230115538
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-0-230-10796-0
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-1-349-29079-6
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XX, 276
- Topics