African Security Governance - Emerging Issues Editor(s): Gavin Cawthra (OUT OF PRINT NEW)

African Security Governance - Emerging Issues Editor(s): Gavin Cawthra

Africa faces a seemingly ever-increasing range ofsecurity challenges. The traditional threats of civil and border conflicts,crises of governance and military coups may have receded but they remainactive. Meanwhile, other issues have risen to prominence, such asglobalisation, security sector reform, terrorism, private security actors,peace-keeping and peace-building and the proliferation of weapons of massdestruction.

This book is a result of research carried out over a numberof years by the Southern African Defence and Security Management Network(SADSEM) on many of these new and emerging security issues, in co-operationwith the Danish Institute for International Studies and theFriedrich-Ebert-Stiftung.

The broad focus is on security governance the role ofstate and a wide range of social actors in the areas of both human and statesecurity. It deals with a range of sectors, themes and national case studiesand makes an important contribution to debates on security sector reform.

The topics covered include policing transformation,intelligence governance, regulation of private security actors, challenges ofnuclear proliferation, regional security, peace diplomacy and peace missions,the relationship between development and security and new challenges ingovernance of the military.

Written by scholars as well as practitioners, and African aswell as international researchers, it brings a variety of insights to new aswell as traditional security concerns.

Gavin Cawthra is Professor of Defence and SecurityManagement at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.