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African Border Disorders: Addressing Transnational Extremist Organizations

African Border Disorders: Addressing Transnational Extremist Organizations

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Series: Routledge Studies in African Politics and International Rela

CriminologyGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 0367278596
ISBN13: 9780367278595
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Mar 28 2019
Pages: 230
Weight: 0.73
Height: 0.49 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Since the end of the Cold War, the monopoly of legitimate organized force of many African states has been eroded by a mix of rebel groups, violent extremist organizations, and self-defence militias created in response to the rise in organized violence on the continent.

African Border Disorders explores the complex relationships that bind states, transnational rebels and extremist organizations, and borders on the African continent. Combining cutting edge network science with geographical analysis, the first part of the book highlights how the fluid alliances and conflicts between rebels, violent extremist organizations and states shape in large measure regional patterns of violence in Africa. The second part of the book examines the spread of Islamist violence around Lake Chad through the lens of the violent Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram, which has evolved from a nationally-oriented militia group, to an internationally networked organization. The third part of the book explores how violent extremist organizations conceptualize state boundaries and territory and, reciprocally, how do the civil society and the state respond to the rise of transnational organizations.

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