UID:
edocfu_9961601668302883
Format:
1 online resource (290 pages)
Edition:
First edition.
ISBN:
1-009-36225-9
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1-009-36226-7
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1-009-36227-5
Series Statement:
African Studies ; Volume Series Number 166
Content:
Based on extensive empirical research, Katharina P.W. Döring analyses the politics surrounding military deployments in the Sahel since 2012 and stresses the agency of regional organizations in African-led military interventions. Drawing on insights from critical geography, she considers the role that space plays in the power dynamics of the region.
Note:
Cover -- Half-title -- Series information -- Title page -- Imprints page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: Making Room for War -- I.1 'Le Mali est notre Afghanistan' -- I.2 Studying African Military Politics -- I.3 Many Interveners, Many Sahels -- I.4 Rethinking Space: From Fixed Containers to Dynamic Relations -- I.5 Road Map to the Book -- 1 Spatial Semantics in African Military Politics -- 1.1 The Spatiality of Subsidiarity -- 1.2 The Organigram Is Not the Territory: From Representational Space to Relational Space -- 1.3 Critical Geopolitics and Spatial Semantics -- 1.4 Beyond 'the Architecture': Spatial Semantics in African Military Politics -- 2 Combating 'Sahelistan': The Struggle over Military Deployment for Mali -- 2.1 Fending Off 'Sahelistan', Defending 'Territorial Integrity' in Mali -- 2.2 The Struggle with 'Subsidiarity': In Search of a Mandate for an African Mission to Mali -- 2.3 Putting on the Green Beret before Re-hatting to the Blue Helmet -- 2.4 When 'Strangers' Save Your 'Neighbours' -- 3 Challenging the 'Regions' of the African Standby Force -- 3.1 An Opportune Moment for Introducing the African Capacity for Immediate Response to Crises -- 3.2 Challenging the Spatial Semantics of Regional Military Deployment -- 3.3 Southern African Troops to Fight Boko Haram in West Africa? -- 4 Security and Intelligence Cooperation in the 'Sahelo-Saharan Region' -- 4.1 Transregional Cooperation amid Distrust and Suspicion -- 4.2 Transregional Spatial Semantics in the Nouakchott Process -- 4.3 Algerian Interests and African Union Commission Ambitions for the Sahelo-Saharan Region -- 4.4 The Nouakchott Process Intervention Force That Never Was -- 5 African Military Coalitions and the 'Core Countries' in the Sahel -- 5.1 The 'Origin' of the G5 Sahel.
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5.2 The 'Core Countries' in the Sahel Re-regionalizing West Africa -- 5.3 How African-Led Is the G5 Sahel Joint Force? -- 5.4 Chadian Troops in African Military Coalitions -- 6 Towards a Critical Geopolitics of African Military Politics -- 6.1 Spatial Semantics in Changing Paradigms for African-Led Military Deployments -- 6.2 Relocating African Elites in Critical Geopolitics -- 6.3 Confronting Geopolitics with Spatial Semantics -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Döring, Katharina P. W. African Military Politics in the Sahel Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,c2023
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781009362245
Language:
English
