Mercenaries : an African security dilemma / edited by Abdel-Fatau Musah and J. Kayode Fayemi ; foreword by Lord Avebury.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Musah, Abdel-Fatau.

Fayemi, Kayode.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mercenary troops--Africa.

Mercenary troops.

Africa--History--1960-.

Africa.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (320 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; Sterling, Va. : Pluto Press, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A critique of mercenary involvement in post Cold-War African conflicts.

Contents:

""Contents ""; ""About the Centre for Democracy and Development ""; ""Programme on Conflict Management, Regional Security & Peacebuilding ""; ""Foreword ""; ""Acknowledgements ""; ""Abbreviations and Acronyms ""; ""Introduction ""; ""Brief Overview of the African Encounter with Mercenarism ""; ""Structure of Book ""; ""Synopsis ""; ""Introduction Notes ""; ""1. Africa in Search of Security: Mercenaries and Conflicts An Overview ""; ""What is Mercenarism? ""; ""Political Context of Mercenary Activities in Africa during the Cold War ""; ""The Mercenary Agenda in Contemporary Africa ""

""What Future for Mercenarism? """"Re-conceptualising the Security Environment ""; ""Improving the Legal Frameworks of Mercenarism: Between Regulation and Redundancy ""; ""Conclusion ""; ""Notes Chapter 1 ""; ""2. Private Military Companies and African Security 1990 98 ""; ""PMCs and the 'New World Order' ""; ""PMCs before 1990 ""; ""EO in 1990-92 ""; ""PMCs in Angola 1993-97 ""; ""PMCs in Central Africa 1996-1998 ""; ""PMCs in Angola and Sierra Leone 1998 ""; ""Other PMC Activity in Africa ""; ""PMCs in South Africa since 1991 ""

""Executive Outcomes and Branch- Heritage: The EO- Branch Network """"The Branch- Heritage Group ""; ""Strategic Resources Corporation ""; ""Plaza 107 Ltd ""; ""Links between the Branch- Heritage group and Executive Outcomes ""; ""Conclusion ""; ""Note on Sources ""; ""Notes Chapter 2 ""; ""3. A Country Under Siege: State Decay and Corporate Military Intervention in Sierra Leone ""; ""Early Private Security in the Political Economy of Sierra Leone ""; ""Sierra Leone A Portrait ""; ""The Colonial Imprint ""; ""Military/ Defence Structures in Sierra Leone ""

""The Anatomy of State Collapse """"Economic Decline and Mounting Tensions ""; ""Challenges to the Neocolonial State ""; ""Emergence of the Revolutionary United Front ""; ""The Gurkha Security Guards ""; ""Executive Outcomes ""; ""The Peace Agreement ""; ""Post- Election Traumas ""; ""The Price of EO intervention ""; ""Corporate Mercenaries in the Kabbah Administration s Strategic Thinking ""; ""Reactions to the 25 May Coup ""; ""The Plot behind an African Coup ""; ""Sandline International ""; ""Motives behind the Assault Partnership ""

""The Vultures Swoop: A Country under Mercenary Occupation """"Is Sierra Leone any Closer to Peace and Democracy? ""; ""Weapons Continue to Dominate Sierra Leone ""; ""Conclusion: Winners and Losers ""; ""Notes Chapter 3 ""; ""4. The Hand of War: Mercenaries in the Former Zaire 1996 97 ""; ""The Congo as Cradle of Modern-day Mercenarism in Africa ""; ""The Revolutionary Wind of Change, 1996 ""; ""War in Eastern Zaire and the First Tutsi- led Rebellion ""; ""Mercenaries for Mobutu ""; ""War Bonanza ""; ""Executive Outcomes ""; ""Confusion in Kinshasa ""

""Western European Forces under Christian Tavernier ""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781849640398

1849640394

9780585426709

0585426708

OCLC:

923330517