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Securitization Outside the West - West African Security Reconceptualised (Hardcover)
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Securitization Outside the West - West African Security Reconceptualised (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge New Security Studies
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This book analyses securitization processes outside of the West,
with a focus on Africa. The aim of the volume is to develop an
original analytical framework to explain the
securitization-neo-patrimonialism dynamics in West Africa, drawing
upon insights from securitization theory, sociology and psychology.
Among critical voices, securitization has become the gold standard
for analysing emerging challenges, such as migration, terrorism,
and human security. Yet, despite its broadening agenda, the
framework has also been accused of bias, with a Western political
context and democratic governance structure at its heart. This book
aims to re-conceptualise the framework in a way that suits
non-Western contexts better, notably by re-conceptualising the
securitization-neopatrimonialism nexus in Africa, which gives us
significant new insights into non-Western political contexts. It
analyses the securitization processes among the political elites
under neo-patrimonial statehood, and further stretches the
conceptualisation of securitization into African statehood, which
is characterised by a blurred line between the leader and the
state. The volume explores the processes of securitizing threats in
Liberia, Sierra Leone and wider West Africa, as well as the
neo-patrimonial regimes of these states. In doing so, it explores
the influence these states' neo-patrimonial regimes have on the
processes of threat securitization. This book will be of much
interest to students of critical security studies, African politics
and International Relations. The Open Access version of this book,
available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available
under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives
4.0 license.
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