The Security Arena in Africa

Local Order-Making in the Central African Republic, Somaliland, and South Sudan

Tim Glawion

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN:
  9781108493376
• eBook ISBN:
  9781108661294
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: American Government
• Index: Politics & International Relations

The labels 'state fragility' and 'civil war' suggest that security within several African countries has broken down. As Tim Glawion observes, however, while people do experience insecurity in some parts of conflict-affected countries, in other areas they live in relative security. Conducting in-depth field-research between 2014 and 2018, The Security Arena in Africa is based on first-hand insights into South Sudan and the Central African Republic during their ongoing civil wars, and Somalia's breakaway state of Somaliland. Gaining valuable accounts from the people whose security is at stake, this bottom-up perspective on discussions of peace and security tells vivid stories from the field to explore complex security dynamics, making theoretical insights translatable to real-world experiences and revealing how security is created and undermined in these fragile states.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Maps
• List of Tables
• List of Boxes
• Acknowledgements
• List of Abbreviations
• Introduction
• 1 Ordering the Security Arena
• 2 National and Local Histories of Security
• 3 Creating Centres and Peripheries in the National Arena
• 4 Inner and Outer Circles of the Arena
• 5 Stable Ordering and Predictable Security
• 6 Fluid Ordering and Flexible Security
• 7 Mixing Ordering Forms
• 8 Embedding into and Detaching from the Arena
• Conclusion
• References
• Index