Description |
1 online resource (xix, 268 pages) |
Series |
Contemporary security studies |
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Contemporary security studies.
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Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of tables; Notes on contributors; List of abbreviations; 1 Introduction: militancy and violence in West Africa; 2 Religion, radicalisation and violence; 3 Islamic radicalisation and violence in Nigeria; 4 Islamic radicalisation and violence in Ghana; 5 Islamic radicalisation and violence in Liberia; 6 Religious militancy and violence in West Africa: a study of Islam in Sierra Leone; 7 Beyond Anglophone West Africa: endemic conflicts and new Islamic radicalism |
Summary |
This volume provides a systematic and cross-regional analysis of radicalisation, militancy and violence in West Africa. Concern about terrorism in, or from, West Africa, has been recognised in academic research, and the adoption of militarised approaches to addressing it questioned. However, the basis for that questioning - the need to investigate factors such as the historical and socio-economic roots of militancy - is not developed, nor is it substantiated in existing studies. The significant impact of religiously motivated radicalisation and violence in West Africa upon internation |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force. WlAbNL |
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Print version record |
Subject |
Terrorism -- Africa, West.
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Radicalism -- Africa, West
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Islamic fundamentalism -- Africa, West
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Violence -- Africa, West
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Violence in Society.
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Islamic fundamentalism
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Radicalism
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Terrorism
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Violence
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West Africa
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Gow, James
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Olonisakin, 'Funmi
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Dijxhorn, Ernst
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ISBN |
9781135968502 |
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1135968500 |
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9780203538791 |
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020353879X |
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9781299744240 |
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1299744249 |
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9781135968571 |
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1135968578 |
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