A32=Carol B. Thompson
A32=Cyril I. Obi
A32=Franklin Charles Graham IV
A32=Ken Menkhaus
A32=Michael J. Watts
A32=Musambayi Katumanga
A32=Patricia Daley
A32=Patrick B. Johnston
A32=Richard Banegas
Africa
African Politics
Age Group_Uncategorized
Age Group_Uncategorized
automatic-update
B01=Rita Abrahamsen
Category1=Non-Fiction
Category=HBJH
Category=HBLX
Category=JPWL
Category=JPWS
Category=NHH
Cold War
Conflict
COP=United Kingdom
Delivery_Delivery within 10-20 working days
Development Assistance
eq_bestseller
eq_history
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
eq_society-politics
Ethnic Hatred
Global Connections
Global Governance
Greed
Grievance
Human Rights
Language_English
Liberal Peace-building
PA=Available
Politics
Price_€20 to €50
PS=Active
Resource Curse
Rita Abrahamsen
ROAPE
Security
softlaunch
Terrorism
War on Terror
Product details
- ISBN 9781847010780
- Weight: 365g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 19 Sep 2013
- Publisher: James Currey
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
Spanning the period from the cold war to the 'war on terror', examines the political economy dynamics of security and insecurity on the continent, as well as its implications for political actions.
More than any other part of the globe, Africa has become associated with conflict, insecurity and human rights atrocities. In the popular imagination and the media, overpopulation, environmental degradation and ethnic hatred dominate accounts of African violence, while in academic and policy-making circles, conflict and insecurity have also come to occupy centre stage, with resource-hungry warlords and notions of 'greed' and 'grievance' playing key explanatory roles. Since the attacks of 9/11, there has also been mounting concern that the continent's so-called 'ungoverned spaces' will provide safe havens for terrorists intent on destroying Western civilization.
The Review of African Political Economy has engaged extensively with issues of conflict and security, both analysing on-going conflicts and often challenging predominant modes of explanation and interpretation. This Review of African Political Economy Reader provides a timely, comprehensive and critical contribution to contemporary debates about conflict and security on the continent. The first section, covers some of the continent's main post-Cold War conflicts and demonstrates their global connections. The articles also discuss the so-called 'resource curse', as well as the global arms trade, and reveal the complexities of the relationship between the economic and the political. The second section focuses on security as part of post-Cold War global governance, and discusses the effects of liberal peace-building as well as the link between development assistance and the 'war on terror'. The final section examines life as it continues in conditions of war and shows how insecurity reconfigures urban space, transforms social order, identities and authority.
Rita Abrahamsen is Professor in the Graduate School of Publicand International Affairs, University of Ottawa, Canada
Published in association with ROAPE
ROAPE African Readers
Series Editors: Tunde Zack-Williams & Ray Bush
