West Africa's Security Challenges: Building Peace in a Troubled Region
  • 2004/449 pages

West Africa's Security Challenges:

Building Peace in a Troubled Region

Adekeye Adebajo and Ismail Rashid, editors
Hardcover: $59.95
ISBN: 978-1-58826-259-2
Paperback: $22.00
ISBN: 978-1-58826-284-4
Among the world's most unstable regions, West Africa in the last decade has experienced a web of conflicts with profound and wide-ranging effects. West Africa's Security Challenges is the first comprehensive assessment of the resulting mix of setbacks and progress.

The authors provide a context for understanding the region's security dilemmas, highlighting the link between failures of economic development, governance, and democratization on the one hand and military insecurity and violent conflicts on the other. The role of key regional and external actors in foiling—and sometimes fueling—conflicts is also examined. The result is an analysis that is not only academically rigorous, but relevant to current policy debates.

Adekeye Adebajo is professor and senior research fellow at the University of Pretoria's Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship. He is author of Building Peace in West Africa and Liberia's Civil War and coeditor of Managing Armed Conflicts in the Twenty-first Century. Ismail Rashid is associate professor of history and Africana studies at Vassar College. His research focus includes Pan-Africanism and social conflicts in contemporary Africa.

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