Terrorism and counter-terrorism in Africa
Subtitle: fighting insurgency from Al Shabaab, Ansar Dine and Boko Haram
By: Hussein Solomon
Series: New security challenges; New security challenges series
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Basingstoke; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 182
ISBN-13: 9781137489883
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Terrorism; Prevention
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Understanding the terrorist threat in Africa and the limitations of the current counter-terrorist paradigm; title: Islam in Africa; title: Al Shabaab in Somalia : between clan and faith; title: Ansar Dine in Mali : between Tuareg nationalism and Islamism; title: Nigeria's Boko Haram : contesting ethnic, religious and regional identities; title: Responding to terror : an assessment of US counter-terrorism strategies in Africa.