TY  - BOOK
AU  - Musah,Abdel-Fatau
AU  - Fayemi,Kayode
TI  - Mercenaries: an African security dilemma 
SN  - 9781849640398
AV  - DT30.2 .M56
PY  - 2000///
CY  - London, Sterling, Va.
PB  - Pluto Press
KW  - Mercenary troops
KW  - Africa
KW  - Mercenaires
KW  - Afrique
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Military
KW  - fast
KW  - MERCENARIES
KW  - unbist
KW  - REGIONAL SECURITY
KW  - NATIONAL SECURITY
KW  - CIVIL WAR
KW  - AFRICA
KW  - History
KW  - 1960-
KW  - Histoire
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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; Electronic reproduction; [Place of publication not identified]; HathiTrust Digital Library; 2010
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