1st Edition

US Strategy in Africa AFRICOM, Terrorism and Security Challenges

Edited By David Francis Copyright 2010
224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

This book outlines the construction, interpretations and understanding of US strategy towards Africa in the early twenty-first century. No single issue or event in the recent decades in Africa has provoked so much controversy and unified hostility and opposition as the announcement by former President George W. Bush of the establishment of the United Stated Africa Command – AFRICOM. The... Read more

Part 1: AFRICOM and US Security Policy in Africa  1. Introduction: AFRICOM: US Strategic Interests and African Security David J. Francis  2. Africa: A new Strategic Perspective Theresa Whelan  3. AFRICOM: What is it and what will it do? Daniel Volman  4. AFRICOM: Terrorism and Security Challenges in Africa J. Peter Pham 5. AFRICOM and Challenges to African Security Mohamed Salih  6. Solutions Not Yet Sought: A Human Security Paradigm for the 21st Century Shannon Beebe  Part 2: African Responses: Threats and Opportunities  7. AFRICOM: Its Reality and Future Jeremy Keenan  8. African Union and AFRICOM Tom Teiku  9. Into Africa - Always Something New: AFRICOM and the History of Telling Africans what their Security Problems Are David Chuter  10. AFRICOM and the New Aid and Security Partnerships Josephine Osikena  Conclusion: AFRICOM and the future of US Africa Relations David J. Francis

Biography

David J. Francis is Professorial Chair of African Peace and Conflict Studies in the Department of Peace Studies at the University of Bradford.

 

 

'This book provides an admirable account of the state of play in US Africa strategy and helpfully sketches the possible contours of future improvements.' - Survival, 53 (2) 17