List of Tables

Foreword

Ali A. Mazrui

Acknowledgments

Acronyms and Abbreviations

I. THE CAUSES OF WAR AND THE CONSEQUENCES OF PEACEKEEPING

The Causes of Warfare and the Implications of Peacekeeping in Africa

Ricardo Rene Laremont

From Pax Europa to Pax Africana

Ali A. Mazrui

Robert L. Ostergard, Jr.

Pluralism, Ethnicity, and Militarization

Crawford Young

II. CASE STUDIES

Sudan: An African Dilemma

Francis M. Deng

Civil War, Peacekeeping, and the Great Lakes Region

Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja

The Impact of Peacekeeping on Target States: Lessons from the Liberian Experience

W. Ofuatey-Kodjoe

Strategic Policy Failure and State Fragmentation: Security, Peacekeeping, and Democratization in Sierra Leone

Yusuf Bangura

The International Humanitarian Intervention in Somalia, 1992-1995

Hussein Adam

Mozambique: What Nexus among Peacemaking, Peacekeeping, and Development?

Joao Honwana

The Perpectual Civil War in Angola: The Failure of Peacekeeping and Democratization

J. Michael Turner

III. POLITICAL ISSUES

Military Disengagement from Politics and Constitutionalism in Africa: Challenges and Opportunities

Julius O. Ihonvbere

Lessons for the Transition to Democracy in Africa: The Experience of the Military in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Nigeria, and Algeria

Ricardo Rene Laremont

Habu S. Galadima

Bibliography

Index

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