African conflicts and informal power : big men and networks /
Utas, Mats.
Nordiska Afrikainstitutet.
London : Zed Books,
2012.
"Nordiska Afrikainstitutet = The Nordic Africa Institute."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : bigmanity and network governance in African conflicts / Mats Utas -- Ugandan military entrepreneurialism on the Congo border / Koen Vlassenroot and Sandrine Perrot -- Big man business in the borderland of Sierra Leone / Maya Mynster Christensen -- Corps habillés, Nouchis and subaltern bigmanity in Côte d'Ivoire / Karel Arnaut -- Demobilized or remobilized? : lingering rebel structures in post-war Liberia / Mariam Persson -- Castles in the sand : informal networks and power brokers in the northern Mali periphery / Morten Bøås -- Critical states and cocaine connections / Henrik Vigh -- Bigmanity and international criminal justice in Sierra Leone / Gerhard Anders -- Big man bargaining in African conflicts / Ilmari Käihkö -- Former mid-level commanders in big man networks / Anders Themnér -- Big men commanding conflict resources : the Democratic Republic of the Congo / Ruben de Koning.
Conflict management
Politics and war