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Africanistan : development or jihad
- Title
- Africanistan : development or jihad / Serge Michailof.
- Author
- Michaïlof, Serge
- Publication
- New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2018.
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- Description
- xxiii, 376 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, color maps; 22 cm
- Summary
- "While progress in Africa can be seen across the board, every day-migrants are dying in the Mediterranean. The continent is in fact a powder keg. The powder is demographics. And the detonator is unemployment. What is worrying for the continent is even more dramatic for the Sahel, a huge region of about 100 million inhabitants, where insecurity is spreading and which may act as a detonator for West Africa with a population of 700 million in 25 years. The mass unemployment of young people far more than jihadist propaganda, is the primary explanation for the dramatic collapse of Afghanistan. Despite major differences in geography and culture, there are huge similarities between the Sahel and Afghanistan, increasing insecurity, drug trafficking, and the spread of radical Islam being the most worrisome. Unfortunately the same recipes that failed in Afghanistan are again being rolled out in the Sahel..." --
- Subject
- Afghan War (2001- )
- Since 2000
- Political stability > Africa, Sub-Saharan
- National security > Sahel
- Afghan War, 2001-
- National security > Afghanistan
- Economic history
- International relations
- National security
- Political stability
- Politics and government
- Social conditions
- Sahel > Politics and government > 21st century
- Sahel > Economic conditions > 21st century
- Africa, Sub-Saharan > Social conditions > 21st century
- Africa, Sub-Saharan > Economic conditions > 21st century
- Afghanistan > Politics and government > 2001-
- Afghanistan > Social conditions > 21st century
- Afghanistan > Economic conditions > 21st century
- Africa, Sub-Saharan > Relations > Europe
- Europe > Relations > Africa, Sub-Saharan
- Africa, French-speaking West > Politics and government > 21st century
- Afghanistan
- Africa, French-speaking Western
- Africa > Sahel
- Africa, Sub-Saharan
- Europe
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Part One: Sub-Saharan Africa: The End of Euphoria: The New Threats to Africa's Stability and Growth -- Programmed Demographic Explosion in the Sahel? -- Marginalization and Underemployment in Rural Africa -- Will Africa Skip the Industrial Development Stage? -- Part Two: Fragile States at the Eye of the Storm: What Causes Fragility in Certain States? -- Weak Institutions Weaken Fragile States -- The Ignored Fragility of Cote d'Ivoire and its Descent into Hell: 1980-2012 -- Part Three: Lessons the Sahel Can Draw from Afghanistan: Is the Sahel in the Process of Turning into a New Afghanistan? -- Afghanistan-Lesson One: Security Cannot be Entrusted for Long to Foreign Forces -- Afghanistan-Lesson Two: Aid Agencies Cannot be Left to Do as they Please -- Afghanistan-Lesson Three: In fragile States, the Priority is to Build Modern, Efficient, Sovereign Institutions -- art Four: What Is to Be Done? Applying the Lessons of the West's Failure in Afghanistan to the Sahel: Part 1 -- Applying the Lessons of the West's Failure in Afghanistan to the Sahel: Part 2 -- Conclusion -- Epilogue: How the World Has Changed a Lot in Some Ways and Hardly at All In Others.
- ISBN
- 9780199485666
- 0199485666
- LCCN
- 2018420351
- 99981288532
- OCLC
- on1057557848
- 1057557848
- SCSB-14390330
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries