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Africa and International Relations in the 21st CenturySecurity Privatization and the New Contours of Africa’s Security Governance

Africa and International Relations in the 21st Century: Security Privatization and the New... [Mention private security in Africa, and images of mercenaries and heavily armed private soldiers spring readily to mind. Academic analyses, news reports, popular fiction as well as Hollywood films have zoomed in on Africa’s ‘dogs of war’, painting a picture of a continent awash with private soldiers, toppling or propping up governments, looting resources and generally wreaking havoc across already ravaged countries. In International Relations (IR) too, hardly any analysis of security privatization is considered complete without reference to mercenary activities in Africa, especially those of Executive Outcomes (EO), Sandline International and the botched coup of Simon Mann and his planeload of private soldiers headed for Equatorial Guinea in 2004. An almost compulsory corollary of such accounts is a reflection on the relationship between security privatization and the decline of the African state and its sovereignty.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Africa and International Relations in the 21st CenturySecurity Privatization and the New Contours of Africa’s Security Governance

Part of the International Political Economy Series Book Series
Editors: Cornelissen, Scarlett; Cheru, Fantu; Shaw, Timothy M.
Abrahamsen, Rita
Africa and International Relations in the 21st Century — Nov 21, 2015
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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Copyright
© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2012
ISBN
978-1-349-31384-6
Pages
162 –176
DOI
10.1057/9780230355743_10
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Abstract

[Mention private security in Africa, and images of mercenaries and heavily armed private soldiers spring readily to mind. Academic analyses, news reports, popular fiction as well as Hollywood films have zoomed in on Africa’s ‘dogs of war’, painting a picture of a continent awash with private soldiers, toppling or propping up governments, looting resources and generally wreaking havoc across already ravaged countries. In International Relations (IR) too, hardly any analysis of security privatization is considered complete without reference to mercenary activities in Africa, especially those of Executive Outcomes (EO), Sandline International and the botched coup of Simon Mann and his planeload of private soldiers headed for Equatorial Guinea in 2004. An almost compulsory corollary of such accounts is a reflection on the relationship between security privatization and the decline of the African state and its sovereignty.]

Published: Nov 21, 2015

Keywords: Private Actor; Private Security; Security Actor; City Police; Security Sector Reform

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