| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 334 pages) |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Mercenary troops -- Africa
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HISTORY -- General.
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HISTORY -- Military -- General.
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Mercenary troops
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MERCENARIES.
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REGIONAL SECURITY.
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NATIONAL SECURITY.
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CIVIL WAR.
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AFRICA.
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Africa -- History -- 1960- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001564
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Africa
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Musah, Abdel-Fatau, editor.
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Fayemi, Kayode, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781849640398 |
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1849640394 |
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0585426708 |
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9780585426709 |
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