Contributors argue that African states need to rethink defence strategies premised on the limited danger of invasion by other states. They propose eight alternatives, each more cost effective and ethical than the orthodox deterrence option, arguing that security is not simply a military responsibility. Tables, 212pp, SOUTH AFRICA. INSTITUTE FOR SECURITY STUDIES.

2004 1919913610 Paperback

After the end of the Cold War and a failed mission in Somalia, the US decided to wash its hands of major military operations in Africa. Within the past few years, however, strategic interests in the region have grown, based largely on the threat of international terrorist group activities there. In 2007, the Bush Administration created a new military presence in Africa, AFRICOM (United States Africa Command), professed to be based not on occupying military or fixed bases, but rather on capacity building for and collaboration with African security forces. Some see AFRICOM as the answer to an African security system crippled by a lack of resources, widespread politicisation and institutional weakness. Others claim the programme is nothing more than a characteristic attempt by the US to secure its own interests in the region without regard to the actual needs of Africans. A variety of viewpoints on the debate, both from the US and Africa, come together in this collection to examine the objectives and activities of AFRICOM. 288pp, USA. KUMARIAN PRESS.

Africa faces an ever-increasing range of security challenges. The traditional threats of civil and border conflicts, crises of governance, and military coups may have receded but they remain active. Meanwhile, other issues such as globalization, security sector reform, terrorism, private security actors, peacekeep-ing and peace building, and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction have risen to prominence. This book is a result of research carried out by the Southern African Defence and Security Management Network on many of these new and emerging security issues, in cooperation with the Danish Institute for International Studies and the Friedrich-Ebert Stiftung. The broad focus of this book is on security governance - the role of state and a wide range of social actors in the areas of human and state security. 227pp, JAPAN. UNITED NATIONS UNIVERSITY PRESS.

Analyses recent alterations in African security politics related to the recognition of the relationship between security/peace and development, and the war on terror. Includes information on civil wars, security and the state, transnational aspects of African conflicts, peace-keeping efforts, security challenges of the African Union, UN experiences in Africa, and privatisation of security. 272pp, UK. PALGRAVE.

An analysis of the operationalisation and institutionalisation of the peace and security architecture by the African Union and Africa's Regional Economic Communities (RECs). In creating this architecture, the African Union and the RECs tread new ground with potentially significant consequences to the lives and livelihoods of millions of Africans which remain affected by war and armed conflict. In-depth while critical chapters inform, clarify and provide critical points for reflection on the architecture as a whole as well as on each of the structures currently under implementation. 222pp, UK. ASHGATE.

Contains key documents between 1963 and 2005 relating to conflict and security issues on the continent. 521pp, SOUTH AFRICA. PRETORIA UNIVERSITY LAW PRESS.

2006 9780958509732 Paperback

The scope and nature of humanitarian emergencies generated by civil conflicts and wars in Africa exceed the continental capacity to adequately and effectively respond to them. With the founding of the African Union and the drafting of the Responsibility to Protect doctrine, the basis for collective action against genocide, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity, it is a critical time to reflect how best to address issues of regional peace and conflict. New regional conflicts around health, water, land and food security in the world's poorest most socially fragmented continent strengthen the need for this volume to assess African regional arrangements and provide new policy recommendations. 244pp, UK. ASHGATE.

The formation of the African Union in 2002 reaffirmed the commitment of African political elites to foster a peaceful and safe continent, a commitment fleshed out through the creation of the African Security Council. Later, an African Stand-by Force was established, with the intention of intervening in conflicts and offering civil protection. Against this background, the studies in this book reflect on the current situation as regards defence, military and human security across the African continent. 96pp, SOUTH AFRICA. AFRICA INSTITUTE OF SOUTH AFRICA.

2005 0798301945 Paperback

Addresses issues related to the strategic role of African borders in fulfilling regional aspirations in integration, security and development in the twenty-first century. The 23 chapters bring to the fore the multi-dimensional challenges that confront African governments with a view to providing a basis for clearer policy options at the national, sub-regional and regional levels. 358pp, NIGERIA. MALTHOUSE.

A series of case studies which investigate the impact of military style governance on the new democracies and on people's expectation of their leaders. African countries studied are Algeria, the Congo, Ghana, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, and South Africa. Index, refs, tables, xii, 340pp, UK. ZED BOOKS.

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, including the role played by multilateral international institutions in the continent's affairs. 296pp, UK. PALGRAVE.

Conflict, famine, poverty and disease form the backdrop against which African leaders must form frameworks for peace and security. In this collection of essays, ten experts address key issues that underpin the security agenda in Africa. Topics discussed include the role of NEPAD and the AU, what lessons can be learnt from other regional security arrangements, problems of funding, the structuring of the envisaged standby force, and the political requirements for an effective security framework. Notes, refs, 282pp, SOUTH AFRICA. INSTITUTE FOR GLOBAL DEMOCRACY, 1919697675

2004 Paperback

In themes varying from corruption, the proliferation of small arms and light weapons, food security, the devastation of internal displacement in Africa, the link between natural resources and human security, to the problems of forced labour, threats to women's security, and environmental security, the book examines the legal and policy challenges of protecting human security in Africa. This work also analyses the role of NGOs and the civil society in advocating human security issues in Africa. It considers the role of regional human rights mechanisms and judicial bodies, such as the African Commission for Human Rights and the African Court of Human and Peoples' Rights, in seeking to guarantee human security in Africa. Finally, with particular reference to the Somalia, Zimbabwe, Kenya, and Darfur crises, the book studies the role of African regional organizations, especially the African Union, in protecting the human security of Africans. 400pp, UK. OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS.

In Liberia and Sierra Leone, strategies to reform and reconstruct the security sector have centred on re-establishing the state's monopoly on the use of force. However, little attention is given to the array of non-state actors that often play a major role in how individuals and communities experience security. This book seeks to address this gap by applying a human security approach to security provision across these two contexts. A key point of departure is that in the long run there can be no alternative within post-conflict societies to a locally owned security sector. 256pp, GERMANY. LIT VERLAG.

The African continent is plagued by some of the most brutal and violent conflicts in the world. At the same time that warfare is changing, so has the states capacity to provide security and political stability to its citizens. This book deals with the role of regional organizations in Africas security. It focuses on three basic yet often overlooked questions: the advantages and disadvantages of African regional and sub-regional organizations vis-à-vis other security mechanisms; the official and unofficial reasons to intervene; and, whether security is actually protected by the peace activities carried out by the regional organizations. 154pp, UK. ROUTLEDGE.

In the midst of the atrocities reported in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the seemingly constant strife in the Horn of Africa, and the ongoing violence in Darfur, how do we make sense of the simultaneous increase in interstate security cooperation in Africa? To what extent, and why, does this cooperation differ from previous initiatives? In what direction is it heading? Benedikt Franke assesses the peace and security architecture that is taking shape under the nominal leadership of the African Union, analysing the emerging structures and trends and also rethinking prevailing notions and theoretical assumptions about interstate security relations. 332pp, USA. LYNNE RIENNER.

Post-conflict peacebuilding has become a primary concern of international politics. Indeed, the UN reform agenda makes clear that more must be done to prevent societies from falling back into violent struggle. Building up domestic capacity to provide security in an accountable manner plays a crucial role in this context. Applying a security governance perspective, this volume examines a number of key issues that must be addressed by both post-conflict societies and the international community as they confront the task of rebuilding after armed conflict - including security sector reform (SSR), disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration (DDR), rule of law and transitional justice. Index, 290pp, GERMANY. LIT VERLAG.

This text challenges the current thinking on strategic security issues in Sub-Saharan Africa by bringing the entire literature together on all of the regions and countries. It provides compelling international and foreign perspectives using various information systems. BNS, 737pp, USA. GREENWOOD PRESS, 031332025X

Policing is undergoing rapid change in Africa as a result of democratization, the commercialization of security, conflicts that disrupt policing services, and peace negotiations among former adversaries. These factors combined with the inability of Africa’s state police to provide adequate protection have resulted in the continuing popularity of various forms of non-state policing. Based on six years of field work, Professor Bruce Baker here presents his findings on eight African countries. 215pp, USA . CRC PRESS.

Moving forward from the failure of the earlier, typically idealistic Africa unity project, David Francis demonstrates how peace and security challenges have created the imperative for change. He argues that a series of regional peace and security systems are emerging, and that states that have participated in practical experiments in regional peacekeeping, peace support operations, conflict stabilization/management and preventive diplomacy are building de facto systems of peace and security that could be institutionalised and extended. 296pp, UK. ASHGATE PUBLISHERS.

Collection of papers, many of them written for the journal African Renaissance, by prominent African scholars and practitioners who seek to understand the various causes of African conflicts, the many forms and different dimensions that these conflicts have taken, their devastating effects and the challenges for sustainable peace and security on the African continent. Includes the report of former United Nations Secretary General, Kofi Anan, The Causes of Conflict and the Promotion of Durable Peace and Sustainable Development in Africa. 304pp, UK. ADONIS & ABBEY.