Understanding Boko Haram
Terrorism and Insurgency in Africa
The primary objective of this book is to understand the nature of the Boko Haram insurgency in northeast Nigeria. Boko Haram's goal of an Islamic Caliphate, starting in the Borno State in the North East that will eventually cover the areas of the former Kanem-Borno Empire, is a rejection of the modern state system forced on it by the West. The central theme of this volume examines the relationship between the failure of the state-building project in Nigeria and the outbreak and nature of insurgency. At the heart of the Boko Haram phenomenon is a country racked with cleavages, making it hard for Nigeria to cohere as a modern state. Part I intr…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Solomon, Hussein (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-315-52503-7
- EAN: 9781315525037
- Produktnummer: 25427262
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 304 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'359 KB
- Abbildungen: 4 schwarz-weiße Zeichnungen, 9 schwarz-weiße Tabellen
Über den Autor
James J. Hentz is Professor and Chair of the Department of International Studies and Political Science at the Virginia Military Institute, USA. He is author/editor of numerous titles, including the Routledge Handbook of African Security (2013).Hussein Solomon is Senior Professor in the Department of Political Studies and Governance at the University of the Free State, South Africa, and author of Islamic State and the Coming Global Confrontation (2016).
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