Securitization Outside The West West African Security Reconceptualised 1st Edition Christian Kaunert Edwin Ezeokafor by Christian Kaunert & Edwin Ezeokafor 03054211755 instant download after payment.

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.