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Book SynopsisThis 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
Trade ReviewThis 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. -- Kenneth Omeje, University of Johannesburg
Table of ContentsPart 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
