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New Security Threats and Crises in Africa

Regional and International Perspectives

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  • © 2010

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  1. Jack Mangala

    1. Grand Valley State University, USA

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
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  2. Introduction: Evolving Security Discourse and Crises in Africa: Conceptual, Policy, and Practical Relevance

    1. Introduction: Evolving Security Discourse and Crises in Africa: Conceptual, Policy, and Practical Relevance

      • Jack Mangala
      Pages 1-15

  3. New Security Threats: African and International Perspectives

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17
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    2. The African Union and Security in Africa

      • Jamila El Abdellaoui
      Pages 19-38

    3. Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons: From Humanitarian to Security Paradigm

      • Jack Mangala
      Pages 39-57

    4. Africa’s Responses to International Terrorism and the War against It

      • Abdul Karim Bangura, Billie D. Tate
      Pages 59-85

    5. Climate Change and the Risk of Conflict in Africa

      • Oli Brown, Alec Crawford
      Pages 87-109

    6. Securing Africa’s Food Security: Current Constraints and Future Options

      • Daniel D. Karanja
      Pages 111-127

    7. Confronting Africa’s Health Challenges

      • Jeremy Youde
      Pages 129-146

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 273-276
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This book is a multidisciplinary approach to Africa's international relations in an era of globalization and the shifting of power from the West. It moves beyond colonization, marginalization, imperialism to look at the forces and dynamics that are reshaping Africa's external relations today.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Grand Valley State University, USA

    Jack Mangala

About the editor

Jack Mangala is an Associate Professor of Political Science and African and African American Studies at Grand Valley State University, where he also serves both as the Director of the African and African American Studies Program and the Director of the Area Studies Center in the Brooks College of Interdisciplinary Studies. He is co-author of Assessing George W. Bush’s Policies toward Africa: Proposals for the New U.S. President and African Leaders.

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