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Author Kaunert, Christian, author.

Title Securitization outside the West : West African security reconceptualised / Christian Kaunert and Edwin Ezeokafor.

Publication Info. London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2022.

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Description 1 online resource.
Series Routledge new security studies
Routledge new security studies.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction -- An archeology of knowledge on securitization in Africa : from Eurocentrism to racism -- Ontological security and West Africa -- A new securitization framework outside of the West : the securitization-neopatrimonialism nexus -- Liberia : neo-patrimonial statehood and securitization processes -- Sierra Leone : neo-patrimonial political culture and securitization processes -- Health security in West Africa : from HIV/AIDS, EDV/Ebola to COVID-19 -- Conclusion.
Summary "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"-- Provided by publisher.
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Subject Human security -- Africa, West.
Institution building -- Africa, West.
Postcolonialism -- Africa, West.
Africa, West -- Politics and government -- 21st century.
Added Author Ezeokafor, Edwin, author.
Other Form: Print version: Kaunert, Christian. Securitization outside the West London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2022 9780367678739 (DLC) 2022002229
ISBN 9781003133216 (ebook)
1003133215
9780367678739 (hardback)
9780367678791 (paperback)
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