Research Catalog

Title

Africa in the new world order : peace and security challenges in the twenty-first century / edited by Olayiwola Abegunrin.

Publication

• Lanham : Lexington Books, [2014]
• ©2014

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Details

Additional Authors

Abegunrin, Olayiwola

Description

xxi, 253 pages : map; 24 cm

Summary

This book examines the role of the emerging African nations in the new international order of the twenty-first century. Since the end of the Cold War, little significance has been placed on the African continent in the security and political considerations of the Western world. However, post-9/11 international security has been redefined, and new challenges have been identified. Thus, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, Africa is facing a variety of new security challenges. Africa has become an increasingly important battleground in the fight against terrorism. Since the beginning of 2011, the new revolutions, now known as the Arab Spring, that swept through North Africa have created new challenges for the African continent and are compounding the African peoples’ struggles for poverty alleviation, state stability, security, socio-political and socio-economic development, democracy, and good governance. In addition to these crises of civil war, ethnic conflict, state insecurity, and rampant corruption at all levels, the HIV/AIDS pandemic has ravaged the continent for the past four decades. The only major pan-African organization—the African Union—is unable to lead and defend the continent effectively. At this crucial period when the continent is confronted with these myriad of security challenges, it needs effective, strong leadership that possesses both human and natural resources to play a leadership role in Africa and lead the continent in the new global order of the twenty-first century. The contributors to this volume analyze many of these issues and place them in the wider context of global security. --Provided by publisher.

Uniform Title

Africa in the new world order (Lexington Books)

Subject

• 2000 - 2099
• Internal security > Africa
• Human security > Africa
• Security, International > Africa
• Human security
• Internal security
• Politics and government
• Security, International
• Africa > Politics and government > 21st century
• Africa

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-242) and index.

Contents

Introduction / Olayiwola Abegunrin -- Part 1: African security perspective -- Leadership problem and Africa's security challenges in the new international order / Olayiwola Abegunrin -- Nigeria and the emergency of Boko Haram : anatomy of a weak state / Olusoji Akomolafe -- The 2002 rebellion, civil war and presidential election crisis of 2010 in Cote D'Ivoire / Balla M. Keita -- Part 2: African security in regional perspectives -- The Niger Delta: a tenuous and perilous security condition / Sabelle Ogbobode Abidde -- Politics, economic development, and prospect for the economic security in the Democratic Republic of Congo / Olayiwola Abegunrin -- Security dilemma: post independence arrangements between North-South Sudan / Benjamin A. Machar -- Revolutions across North Africa: what will be their impact on the rest of Africa / Mohammed El-Khawas -- Appraising Africa's fifty years of independence : the struggle of attaining viable peace and security / Alem Hailu -- Part 3: African security in global perspectives -- The domestic and global implications of the Niger Delta crisis / Sabella Ogbobode abidde -- Somalia in the Horn of African security equation since September 11, 2001 / Christopher Daniels -- The African condition: Islam and international terrorism / Sulayman S. Nyang.

Call Number

Sc E 16-592

ISBN

• 9780739193518
• 0739193511
• 073919352X
• 9780739193525
• 9780739193525 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2014011805

OCLC

870985400

Title

Africa in the new world order : peace and security challenges in the twenty-first century / edited by Olayiwola Abegunrin.

Publisher

Lanham : Lexington Books, [2014]

Copyright Date

©2014

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-242) and index.

Chronological Term

2000 - 2099

Added Author

Abegunrin, Olayiwola, editor.

Research Call Number

Sc E 16-592