{"product_id":"african-security-local-issues-and-global-connections-9780821425503","title":"African Security: Local Issues and Global Connections","description":"\u003ci\u003eAfrican Security: Local Issues and Global Connections\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eglocalized\u003c\/i\u003e 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbu Bakarr Bah\u003c\/b\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eAfrican Conflict \u0026amp; Peacebuilding Review\u003c\/i\u003e and African editor for \u003ci\u003eCritical Sociology\u003c\/i\u003e. His works include \u003ci\u003ePost-Conflict Institutional Design: Peacebuilding and Democracy in Africa;\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eInternational Security and Peacebuilding: Africa, the Middle East, and Europe;\u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003e Breakdown and Reconstitution: Democracy, the Nation-State, and Ethnicity in Nigeria, \u003c\/i\u003eas well as articles in numerous journals.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Ohio University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50402663268626,"sku":"9780821425503","price":38.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_98901172-6076-4797-b6f4-a44e5da7f37c.jpg?v=1740407885","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/african-security-local-issues-and-global-connections-9780821425503","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}