West Africa's Security Challenges : Building Peace in a Troubled Region

Foreword vii David M. Malone Foreword xi Mohamed Ibn Chambas Acknowledgments xv Map of ECOWAS States xviii Introduction 1(20) Adekeye Adebajo Part 1 Context ECOWAS: A Retrospective Journey 21(30) Adebayo Adedeji The Travails of Integration 51(18) S. K. B. Asante The Dilemmas of Regionalization 69(24) Daniel C. Bach Part 2 Challenges Governance and Democratization 93(24) Amos Sawyer The Fifth Wave of Pan-Africanism 117(28) Christopher Landsberg Civil-Military Relations 145(24) Jimmy D. Kandeh Rebel Movements 169(26) Ibrahim Abdullah Ismail Rashid The Political Economy of Conflict 195(28) Eboe Hutchful Kwesi Aning Small Arms, Light Weapons 223(22) Comfort Ero Angela Ndinga-Muvumba Children and Armed Conflict 245(20) `Funmi Olonisakin Part 3 Regional and External Actors Civil Society 265(26) Yasmin Jusu-Sheriff Pax West Africana? Regional Security Mechanisms 291(28) Adekeye Adebajo The United Nations 319(30) James O. C. Jonah France, Britain, and the United States 349(34) Kaye Whiteman Douglas Yates Part 4 Conclusion West Africa's Post--Cold War Security Challenges 383(12) Ismail Rashid List of Acronyms 395(6) Bibliography 401(18) The Contributors 419(4) Index 423(26) About the Book 449