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Expanding US Military Command in Africa: Elites, Networks and Grand Strategy book cover

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Expanding US Military Command in Africa Elites, Networks and Grand Strategy

Edited By Tshepo Gwatiwa, Justin van der Merwe Copyright 2021
188 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

188 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

188 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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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... Read more

1. Introducing AFRICOM Expansion in Africa

Tshepo Gwatiwa and Justin van der Merwe

2. Expanding US Africa Command: Reintegrating Africa within the US’s System of Accumulation

Justin van der Merwe

3. The Significance of 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

4. The Genesis and Origins of AFRICOM

William M. Wyatt

5. AFRICOM’S Military Base in Djibouti: a History of Its Advancement

Degang Sun and Yahia H. Zoubir

6. Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance in the Expansion of AFRICOM: Africa in America’s "Panopticon"

Tshepo Gwatiwa

7. Security, Circulation and Biopolitics: US Africa Command’s Response to Ebola

Catriona Gold

8. 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

9. The US Africa Command and [Under]Development in Africa: an Appraisal of the USA’s Securitization of Development in Africa

Khayalandile Lwando Mthamo

10. Agenda-Setting or Reinforcement? The African Media’s Reporting and its Impact on AFRICOM’s Soft Power

Oluwaseun Tella

11. Conclusion – Imprinting Infrastructural and Affective Labour in Africa

Justin van der Merwe

Biography

Tshepo Gwatiwa is a Research Associate at the African Centre for the Study of the United States (ACSUS) at University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, and a lecturer in the Department of International Relations at the same institution.

Justin van der Merwe is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Military Studies (CEMIS) at Stellenbosch University, South Africa.

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