African Security: Local Issues and Global Connections (Series in Human Security)

African Security: Local Issues and Global Connections provokes new ways of thinking about solutions to African security―solutions that consider the eclectic and sometimes disparate natures of African conflicts and that address both their domestic and their external dimensions. The book centers on the concept of glocalized security, which draws from sociological critiques that point to localization within globalization. This edited collection brings the concept of glocalization into African security studies by examining the fusion of domestic and external drivers of conflicts and how that relationship creates a glocalized security situation across Africa. The chapters in this volume engage the literature on domestic and external causes of conflicts in Africa, most notably issues of patrimonialism, ethnicity, natural resources, climate change, and geopolitics. These conflict drivers are woven in with known theories on security, such as neocolonialism, liberal peace, responsibility to protect (R2P), and collective security. The book presents rich qualitative and historical data, convincingly analyzed and theorized. Contributors: Folahanmi Aina, Alfred Babo, Abu Bakarr Bah, Noamane Cherkaoui, Nikolas Emmanuel, Tenley K. Erickson, John Mwangi Githigaro, Michael Nwankpa, Norman Sempijja, and Akram Zaoui

Abu Bakarr Bah is Presidential Research Professor of Sociology at Northern Illinois University and founding director of the Institute for Research and Policy Integration in Africa. He is also editor in chief of African Conflict & Peacebuilding Review and African editor for Critical Sociology. His works include Post-Conflict Institutional Design: Peacebuilding and Democracy in Africa;International Security and Peacebuilding: Africa, the Middle East, and Europe; and Breakdown and Reconstitution: Democracy, the Nation-State, and Ethnicity in Nigeria, as well as articles in numerous journals.