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Expanding US military command in Africa : elites, networks and grand strategy

Title: Expanding US military command in Africa : elites, networks and grand strategy / edited by Tshepo Gwatiwa and Justin van der Merwe.
Publication: London ; New York, NY : Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, 2021.

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XV, 171 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

"This book discusses the systematic expansion of the United States Africa Command (AFRICOM) across the continent of Africa. This book posits that AFRICOM expansion in Africa is part of a broader system of accumulation based on a government-business-media (GBM) complex. Applying the concept at both structural and descriptive levels, the GBM complex is a function of the synergy between the state's quest for power, businesses' need for expansion, and the informational and hegemonic functions of media actors. The United States' GBM complex in Africa is supported-and in some locations spearheaded-by its military, with dispossessing effects on local actors. Drawing from African case studies, analytical accounts and empirical case studies, this book explores AFRICOM's role within this broader strategy. The volume maps both the methods and the scope of this expansion, as well as local resistance to this process, and comprises perspectives from the five regions of Africa, key sub-regional organizations and voices from Africa's regional hegemons. This book will be of much interest to students of security studies, strategic studies, African politics and International Relations"--

Series Statement

Routledge global security studies

Uniform Title

Routledge global security studies.

Alternative Title

Elites, networks and grand strategy

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Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introducing AFRICOM Expansion in Africa / Tshepo Gwatiwa and Justin van der Merwe -- Expanding US Africa Command: Reintegrating Africa within the US's System of Accumulation / Justin van der Merwe -- Multilateral Diplomacy in the Formation of US Africa Command: Reflections on US Africa Policy and Engagement from Bush through Obama, 2000-2016 / Michael A. Battle -- The Genesis and Origins of AFRICOM / William M. Wyatt -- AFRICOM'S Military Base in Djibouti: a History of Its Advancement / Degan Sun and Yahia H. Zoubir -- Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance in the Expansion of AFRICOM: Africa in America's -- "Panopticon" / Tshepo Gwatiwa -- Security, Circulation and Biopolitics: US Africa Command's Response to Ebola / Catriona Gold -- The Economic and Business Side of US AFRICOM in Africa: Governments, Land Lease, Aid, Corporations and Military Expansion in Djibouti / Ditabeng Mokoena and Tshepo Gwatiwa -- The US Africa Command and [Under]Development in Africa: an Appraisal of the USA's Securitization of Development in Africa / Khayalandile Lwando Mthamo -- Agenda-Setting or Reinforcement? The African Media's Reporting and its Impact on AFRICOM's Soft Power / Oluwaseun Tella -- Conclusion -- Imprinting Infrastructural and Affective Labour in Africa / Justin van der Merwe.

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ReCAP 22-1451

ISBN

9781138326354
1138326356

LCCN

2020034628

OCLC

1182020771

Title

Expanding US military command in Africa : elites, networks and grand strategy / edited by Tshepo Gwatiwa and Justin van der Merwe.

Publisher

London ; New York, NY : Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, 2021.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Routledge global security studies

Routledge global security studies.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Note

ED: UNIVERSITY OF WITWATERSRAND, SOUTH AFRICA.

Added Author

Gwatiwa, Tshepo, editor.

Van der Merwe, Justin, 1980- editor.

Research Call Number

ReCAP 22-1451

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