Expanding US Military Command in Africa
Elites, Networks and Grand Strategy
This book discusses the systematic expansion of the United States Africa Command (AFRICOM) across the continent of Africa.This book posits that AFRICOM expansion in Africa is part of a broader system of accumulation based on a government-business-media (GBM) complex. Applying the concept at both structural and descriptive levels, the GBM complex is a function of the synergy between the state's quest for power, businesses' need for expansion, and the informational and hegemonic functions of media actors. The United States' GBM complex in Africa is supported-and in some locations spearheaded-by its military, with dispossessing effects on local…
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Weitere Autoren: Merwe, Justin van der (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-429-83207-9
- EAN: 9780429832079
- Produktnummer: 35366750
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Seitenangabe: 188 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 7'547 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
- Abbildungen: 14 schwarz-weiße Abbildungen, 4 schwarz-weiße Fotos, 10 schwarz-weiße Zeichnungen, 1 schwarz-weiße Tabellen
Über den Autor
Tshepo Gwatiwa is a Research Associate at the African Centre for the Study of the United States (ACSUS) at University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, and a lecturer in the Department of International Relations at the same institution.Justin van der Merwe is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Military Studies (CEMIS) at Stellenbosch University, South Africa.
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