New Architecture of Regional Security in Africa: Perspectives on Counter-Terrorism and Counter-Insurgency in the Lake Chad Basin
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This book critically explores the emerging architecture of regional security in Africa with particular reference to counterterrorism and counterinsurgency in the Lake Chad Basin Region. In New Architecture of Regional Security in Africa, the contributors--scholars, policy-makers, and defense/security practitioners from both within and outside Africa--examine the evolution, dynamics, and working mechanisms for peace and security or emerging regional security architecture for regional security in the region. The volume will be essential reading for all academics, scholars, and researchers in academia and NGOs with interests in counterinsurgency and counterterrorism related issues in the Lake Chad Basin region. Additionally, the volume will also be useful for students of counterinsurgency, counterterrorism, small wars, terrorism and strategic studies, and defense and security studies. It will also provide invaluable reference material for policy practitioners working on the activities in the contemporary operating environment within the Lake Chad Basin region. This book offers innovative perspectives on the emerging architecture for regional security in Africa, with a focus on how member states of the Lake Chad Basin Commission are coping with the challenges of terrorism and insurgency. Edited by Usman A. Tar and Bashir Bala, the volume is the first to critically document regional security in the Lake Chad Basin.
Part I: Conceptual and Contextual Perspectives
Introduction: Lake Chad Basin - Africa’s Emerging Regional Security Complex
Usman A. Tar and Bashir Bala
Chapter One: Theoretical Perspectives on Terrorism and Insurgency in Africa
Nuhu K. Achi
Chapter Two: The Frontiers of Counter Terrorism and Counter Insurgency in the Lake Chad Basin
Usman A. Tar and Bashir Bala
Part II: Transnational Perspectives
Chapter Three: Mapping Counter-Terrorism and Counter-Insurgency (CT-COIN) in Africa
Dauda Abubakar & Sharkdam Wapmuk
Chapter Four: Multilateral Organizations, Counter-Terrorism and Counter-Insurgency in the Lake Chad Basin
Ubong Essien Umoh
Part III: Regional Perspectives
Chapter Five: The Ecology and Geopolitics of Lake Chad Basin
Abubakar Kawu Monguno and Ikusemoran Mayomi
Chapter Six: Lake Chad Basin Commission: Emerging Framework for Security Regionalization in the Lake Chad Basin
Ibrahim Umara
Chapter Seven: Emerging Architecture for Regional Security Complex in the Lake Chad Basin: The Multinational Joint Task Force in Perspective
Bashir Bala & Usman A. Tar
Chapter Eight: Policing Counterterrorism and Counterinsurgency in the Lake Chad Basin
Dawud M. Dawud & Tukur Abdulkadir
Chapter Nine: Intelligence Capabilities, Counter-Terrorism and Counter-Insurgency in the Lake Chad Basin
Yusuf Abdullahi Manu & Abraham Nabhon Thomas
Part IV: National and Local Perspectives
Chapter Ten: Ground Zero: Islamic Radicalization and Insurgency in Northeast Nigeria
Abubakar K. Monguno & Ibrahim Umara
Chapter Eleven: The Ecology of Insurgency and Counter-Insurgency: Environmental Security in North-Eastern Nigeria
Usman A. Tar & Samuel B. Ayegba
Chapter Twelve: Special Operations Forces, Counter Terrorism and Counter Insurgency Operations in the Lake Chad Area: The Nigerian Experience
Freedom C. Onuoha & Michael I. Ugwueze
Chapter Thirteen: Cameroon: Counterterrorism and Counter Insurgency in a Volatile Neighborhood
C. Nna-Emeka Okereke & Chinyere Ibeh
Chapter Fourteen: Niger Republic: Niger Republic: Counter-Terrorism and Counter-Insurgency in a Complex Terrain
Bem Japhet Audu & Shuaibu Ibrahim
Part V: Alternative Perspectives
Chapter Fifteen: Civil Society, Counter-Terrorism and Counter-Insurgency in the Lake Chad Basin
Ben Nwosu & Abdulmalik Auwal
Chapter Sixteen: Religious Institutions, Counter-Terrorism and Counter-Insurgency in Lake Chad Basin
Samuel B. Ayegba & Haruna Yerima
Chapter Seventeen: Gender, Vulnerability and Counterterrorism in the Lake Chad Basin: Impact on Women and Children in North East Nigeria
Nachana’a Alahira David & Elizabeth Aishatu Bature
Chapter Eighteen: Civilians, Counterterrorism and Counterinsurgency in the Lake Chad Basin
Jonathan S. Maiangwa and Patience Jacob Kundo
Chapter Nineteen: Youth Bulge, Radicalization and Deradicalization in the Lake Chad Basin
Nathaniel Dominic Danjibo & Abosede Omowumi Babatunde
Chapter Twenty: Humanitarian Agencies, Counter-Terrorism and Counter-Insurgency in the Lake Chad Basin
Mala Mustapha & Kamselem Shehu
Part VI: Conclusion
Conclusion: The Prospects of Counter-Terrorism and Counter-Insurgency in the Lake Chad Basin
Bashir Bala and Usman A. Tar
This edited volume offers authoritative insights into one of the most destabilising regional security nightmares in contemporary international history, the Boko Haram terrorist insurgency in the Lake Chad Basin of West and Central Africa. The book elucidates, from policy science perspectives, the ethnographic, socio-economic and political contexts of the insurgency, as well as the challenges besetting the manifold interventionist measures - national, regional and international - aimed at combating it. I strongly recommend this book to all policy scholars, practitioners and agencies interested in African security and counter-terrorism on a global scale.
Product Details
- Title : New Architecture of Regional Security in Africa: Perspectives on Counter-Terrorism and Counter-Insurgency in the Lake Chad Basin
- Authors:
- Tar, Usman A.
- Bala , Bashir
- Tar, Usman A.
- Bala , Bashir
- Achi, Nuhu K.
- Abubakar, Dauda
- Wapmuk, Sharkdam
- Umoh, Ubong Essien
- Monguno, Abubakar Kawu
- Mayomi, Ikusemoran
- Umara, Ibrahim
- Dawud, Dawud M.
- Abdulkadir, Tukur
- Manu, Yusuf Abdullahi
- Thomas, Abraham Nabhon
- Ayegba, Samuel B.
- Onuoha, Freedom C.
- Ugwueze, Michael I.
- Okereke, C. Nna-Emeka
- Ibeh, Chinyere
- Audu, Bem Japhet
- Ibrahim, Shuaibu A.
- Nwosu, Ben
- Auwal, Abdulmalik
- Yerima, Haruna
- David, Nachana’a Alahira
- Bature, Elizabeth Aishatur
- Maiangwa, Jonathan Sule
- Kundo, Patience Jacob
- Danjibo, Nathaniel Dominic
- Babatunde, Abosede Omowumi
- Mustapha, Mala
- Shehu, Kamselem
- Publisher: Lexington Books
- Publication Date: 2019
- ISBN: 9781498574112
Usman A. Tar is professor of political science and defense studies at the Nigerian Defence Academy.
Bashir Bala is a captain in the Nigerian Army.