Liberia's civil war : Nigeria, ECOMOG, and regional security in West Africa / Adekeye Adebajo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Adebajo, Adekeye, 1966- author.

Contributor:

International Peace Academy, originator.

Series:

Project of the International Peace Academy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

ECOMOG.

Peacekeeping forces--Liberia.

Peacekeeping forces.

Liberia--History--Civil War, 1989-1996.

Liberia.

Liberia--History--Civil War, 1989-1996--Participation, Nigerian.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (301 p.)

Place of Publication:

Boulder, Colorado : Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Liberia's Civil War offers the most in-depth account available of one of the most baffling and intractable of Africa's conflicts. Adekeye Adebajo unravels the tangled web of the conflict by addressing four questions: Why did Nigeria intervene in Liberia and remain committed throughout the seven-year civil war? To what extend was ECOMOG's intervention shaped by Nigeria's hegemonic aspirations? What domestic, regional, and external factors prevented ECOMOG from achieving its objectives for so long? And what factors led eventually to the end of the war? In answering these questions--drawing on previously restricted ECOWAS and UN reports and numerous interviews with key actors--he sheds much-needed light on security issues in West Africa. The concluding chapter of the book assesses the continuing insecurity in Liberia under the repressive presidency of Charles Taylor and its destabilizing effect on the entire West Africa region.

Contents:

""Book Title""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Foreword - David M. Malone""; ""Foreword - Amos Sawyer""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Map of Liberia""; ""ch 1-Introduction""; ""Regional Security in Post�Cold War Africa""; ""Main Questions and Arguments""; ""Contingencies and Concepts""; ""Contribution to the Existing Literature""; ""Approach and Sources""; ""Organization of the Study""; ""Notes""; ""ch 2-A Decade of Troubles: Master-Sergeant Samuel Doe�s Liberia, 1980�1989""; ""The Americo-Liberian Oligarchy""; ""The Year of Ferment""; ""The Men on Horseback""; ""The Limits of a Lumpenmilitariat""

""The Anglophonie: Ghana, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone""""The United States""; ""The United Nations and OAU""; ""The Cotonou Agreement""; ""Notes""; ""ch 7-The Tortuous Road to Akosombo, August 1993�August 1994""; ""Nigeria: From Babangida to Abacha""; ""Of Warlords, Wealth, and War Crimes""; ""Keeping Peace Where There Is None""; ""Policing the Peacekeepers""; ""The LNTG�s Difficult Birth""; ""ECOWAS""; ""The United States""; ""Ghana""; ""Notes""; ""Part 3-A Banquet for the Warlords, September 1994-July 1997""; ""ch 8-The Pied Piper of Accra, September 1994�August 1995""

""The Akosombo Agreement""""Gunboat Diplomacy""; ""The NPFL Split""; ""The Accra Agreement""; ""From Accra to Abuja""; ""The Abuja Agreement""; ""The United Nations""; ""Nigeria""; ""The United States""; ""Peacekeeping""; ""Notes""; ""ch 9-Two Weddings and a Funeral,September 1995�August 1996""; ""The Council of Warlords""; ""The Tubmanburg Troubles""; ""The Gathering Storm""; ""Dog Days in Monrovia""; ""The Peace Train Returns to Abuja""; ""Notes""; ""ch 10-Farewell to Arms? September 1996�July 1997""; ""Mother Courage and Her Children""; ""General Malu, Chief Ikimi, and the Warlords""

""Disarming the Factions""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-62637-112-1

OCLC:

929120034