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Chapter One: Your Guide to African Security
Chapter Two: Insecurity Before Independence
Chapter Three: War and Peace in Independent Africa
Chapter Four: Connecting North Africa to the Sub-Continent
Chapter Five: Understanding Africa’s Armed Forces
Chapter Six: Understanding Africa’s Religions, Religious Extremists
and Violence
Chapter Seven: Understanding Crime and Law Enforcement in
Africa
Chapter Eight: Anticipating and Responding to Military Coups and
Mutinies
Chapter Nine: Anticipating and Mitigating Election Violence
Chapter Ten: Anticipating and Preparing for Economic Crisis in
Africa
Chapter Eleven: Ending and Managing African Conflict
Chapter Twelve: Tracking External Actors, Influences and
Competition in Africa
Chapter Thirteen: Future Trends in African Security and Policy
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Index
A practical guide for teaching courses on African security and contemporary politics
John Siko, based in Dubai, is a director of Burnham
Global, a security consultancy. He previously spent 15 years in the
US Government, entirely focused on African political, economic and
security issues. This included long-term postings in Africa. Siko
has taught courses on African security and politics at Georgetown
University and George Washington University and is the author of
Inside South Africa’s Foreign Policy: Diplomacy in Africa from
Smuts to Mbeki (IB Tauris, 2014). Siko has a doctorate in African
politics from the University of South Africa.
Jonah Victor, based in Washington DC, served as a US
Government adviser on African affairs including at the National
Security Council, the National Intelligence Council, and the
Department of Defense. He has travelled professionally to 20
African countries and taught African security issues as an adjunct
professor at Georgetown University. Victor holds a Ph.D. in
Political Science from Pennsylvania State University.
African Security introduces professionals and students to the broad
range of security challenges and opportunities that Africa and its
partners will confront in coming years. I wish we had this book for
my staff when I was at the State Department. Siko and Victor take a
practitioner’s problem solving approach to anticipate the issues
ahead in the 2020s, and connect readers to the latest academic
research and case studies that can inform a response. In
particular, this book highlights the lessons we have learned
following a decade of dramatic
change in Africa, and gives us practical solutions for the
future.
*Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield, former U.S. Assistant
Secretary of State for Africa*
An innovative and user-friendly approach to African security.
Written in a direct style that will be accessible even for a novice
audience, African Security manages to cover tremendous ground in
terms of issues, actors, theories, and empirical cases. The main
text, concise and to the point, is backed up by rich endnotes that
guide the interested reader towards greater expertise. It embraces
a holistic notion of security and takes the reader across many
essential dimensions of African politics and society. A brilliant
gateway to the study of African security by two specialists.
*Pierre Englebert, H. Russell Smith Professor of International
Relations, Pomona College*
An important addition to the growing literature on African
security, this is a detailed study of a truly complex subject.
Touching on a broad range of topics - from religion and crime to
the role of external actors and the politics of military coups,
Siko and Victor did a panoramic survey of the continent, and have
provided an introductory book for key issues that have underlined
Africa’s security. It is well-written and brilliantly presented and
students of African politics will find the book particularly
useful.
*Abiodun Alao, Professor of African Studies, King’s College
London*
Siko and Victor masterfully cover the waterfront in this accessible
book on African security issues. It is packed with insights,
anecdotes, and analytical frameworks that will enable student and
practitioner alike to hit the ground running in their academic and
professional careers.
*Judd Devermont, Africa Program Director, Center For Strategic and
International Studies*
Essential reading for anyone wanting to understand the complex and
critical security issues facing Africa. African Security provides a
thorough but concise overview of the security challenges that will
directly affect stability, governance, and economic growth across
the continent in the years ahead. I wish such a book had been
available when I started working on Africa.
*Grant T. Harris, Former Special Assistant to the President and
Senior Director for African Affairs at the White House; CEO of
Harris Africa Partners LLC*
Undergraduate students often struggle to understand complicated and
interrelated issues such as ethnicity, religion,
neo-patrimonialism, geographic idiosyncrasies, corruption or the
role of the army in issues of African security. The book under
review offers precisely such a much-needed text and even in an
accessible style. The authors speak directly to the reader from the
first pages of the book and they do not fail to deliver an
accessible guide for less familiar readers of African Studies and
Security.
*Modern Africa*
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