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Mercenaries : an African security dilemma /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; Sterling, Va. :
Pluto Press,
2000.
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| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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