Security-Development Nexus in Africa

Progress Towards the Agenda 2063 and Sustainable Development Goals

Siphumelele Duma, Rich Mashimbye

• Publisher: UJ Press
• Year: 2025
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• eBook ISBN:
  9781997468233
• Subtopic: National Security
• Index: Politics & International Relations

This book is a riveting account of major political, economic and social issues that are pertinent to the African continent. At its core, the book explores the ever-important matrix of security-development nexus as this plays out on the African continent.

Table of contents

• Abbreviations and Acronyms
• Editorial Foreword
• Foreword
• Chapter One
• Security-Development Nexus in Africa: An Argument
• Part 1
• Regional Integration and Cooperation
• Chapter Two
• The State and Implications of Transport Infrastructure on Regional Integration and Economic Development in the SADC Region: A Review Study
• Chapter Three
• Holistic Planning and Adaptive Approaches: Towards Better Responses to Climate-Induced Disasters in Southern Africa
• Chapter Four
• Analysis of the African Union Migration Policy Framework for Africa within the Context of Securitisation of Migration
• Chapter Five
• Regional Integration in Southern Africa 32 Years after the Southern African Development Community (SADC): Intended Projections, Challenges, and Future Prognoses
• Part 2
• Political Instability
• Chapter Six
• Military Coups in West Africa and the Sahel as Impediments Towards the Achievement of the African Union-Agenda 2063, Aspiratio s (3) and (4)
• Chapter Seven
• Multi-Termism and Military Coups in Africa: Evidence from Zimbabwe and Guinea
• Chapter Eight
• Migration, Security, and the State: A Critical Review of the Securitisation of Migration in Africa
• Part 3
• Peace and Security
• Chapter Nine
• Nexus between Peace, Human Security and Development in Post-Colonial Africa: The Missing Link?
• Chapter Ten
• The African Continental Free Trade Area and Peacebuilding: A Turning Point for African Peace and Security?
• Chapter Eleven
• Applying Securitisation Theory to Understand Cybersecurity within the South African Armed Forces Context
• Chapter Twelve
• Land Conflicts and Development in Africa: Toward a Comprehensive Approach to Peacebuilding and Sustainable Development
• Part 4
• Food Security
• Chapter Thirteen
• The State of Food Security in Africa: Exploring the Role of Land Use Planning in Strengthening Urban Food Security
• Chapter Fourteen
• Post-1994 Challenges of Small-Scale Farmers in Water Irrigation and its Effect on Social Well-Being in South Africa
• Chapter Fifteen
• Food Availability, Accessibility, Utilisation and Stability in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Blind Roadmap to Agenda 2063
• Chapter Sixteen
• Human-Wildlife Conflict and Human (In)security in Zimbabwe’s Kariba and Victoria Falls Towns
• Notes on Contributors