TY - BOOK
T1 - Securitization Outside the West
T2 - West African Security Reconceptualised
AU - Kaunert, Christian
AU - Ezeokafor, Edwin
N1 - Includes the following chapters:
Introduction 1
1 An archaeology of knowledge on securitization in Africa: From Eurocentrism to racism 21
2 Ontological security and West Africa 48
3 A new securitization framework outside of the West: The securitization-neo-patrimonialism nexus 72
4 Liberia: Neo-patrimonial statehood and securitization processes 103
5 Sierra Leone: Neo-patrimonial political culture and securitization processes 133
6 Health security in West Africa: From HIV/AIDS, EDV/Ebola to COVID-19 169
Conclusion 198
PY - 2022/7/1
Y1 - 2022/7/1
N2 - This book analyses securitization processes outside of the West, with a focus on Africa. The aim of the volume is to develop an original analytical framework to explain the securitization-neo-patrimonialism dynamics in West Africa, drawing upon insights from securitization theory, sociology and psychology. Among critical voices, securitization has become the gold standard for analysing emerging challenges, such as migration, terrorism and human security. Yet, despite its broadening agenda, the framework has also been accused of bias, with a Western political context and democratic governance structure at its heart. This book aims to re-conceptualise the framework in a way that suits non-Western contexts better, notably by re-conceptualising the securitization-neopatrimonialism nexus in Africa, which gives us significant new insights into non-Western political contexts. It analyses the securitization processes among the political elites under neo-patrimonial statehood, and further stretches the conceptualisation of securitization into African statehood, which is characterised by a blurred line between the leader and the state. The volume explores the processes of securitizing threats in Liberia, Sierra Leone and wider West Africa, as well as the neo-patrimonial regimes of these states. In doing so, it explores the influence these states’ neo-patrimonial regimes have on the processes of threat securitization. This book will be of much interest to students of critical security studies, African politics and International Relations.
AB - This book analyses securitization processes outside of the West, with a focus on Africa. The aim of the volume is to develop an original analytical framework to explain the securitization-neo-patrimonialism dynamics in West Africa, drawing upon insights from securitization theory, sociology and psychology. Among critical voices, securitization has become the gold standard for analysing emerging challenges, such as migration, terrorism and human security. Yet, despite its broadening agenda, the framework has also been accused of bias, with a Western political context and democratic governance structure at its heart. This book aims to re-conceptualise the framework in a way that suits non-Western contexts better, notably by re-conceptualising the securitization-neopatrimonialism nexus in Africa, which gives us significant new insights into non-Western political contexts. It analyses the securitization processes among the political elites under neo-patrimonial statehood, and further stretches the conceptualisation of securitization into African statehood, which is characterised by a blurred line between the leader and the state. The volume explores the processes of securitizing threats in Liberia, Sierra Leone and wider West Africa, as well as the neo-patrimonial regimes of these states. In doing so, it explores the influence these states’ neo-patrimonial regimes have on the processes of threat securitization. This book will be of much interest to students of critical security studies, African politics and International Relations.
U2 - 10.4324/9781003133216
DO - 10.4324/9781003133216
M3 - Book
SN - 978-0367678739
SN - 978-0367678791
T3 - Routledge New Security Studies
BT - Securitization Outside the West
PB - Routledge
CY - Abingdon, Oxon
ER -