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  • Terrorism, Politics, and Human Rights Advocacy

    The #BringBackOurGirls Movement

    by Temitope B. Oriola ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in African Politics and International Relations
    Terrorism, Politics, and Human Rights Advocacy provides an insider-outsider analysis of the #BringBackOurGirls (#BBOG) movement. Formed through a coalition of elite women and middle-class allies to advocate for the rescue of over 200 high school girls from Chibok, Nigeria, who were kidnapped by Boko Haram in 2014, the movement is a global leader in the 'lives matter' advocacy and a new episode in ... Read more

    $103.49 USD

  • Criminal Resistance?

    The Politics of Kidnapping Oil Workers

    by Temitope B. Oriola ...
    Crude oil extraction in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria generates 96% of all foreign earnings and 85% of state revenues, making it crucial to the survival of the Nigerian state. Several generations of state neglect, corruption and mismanagement have ensured that the Delta region is one of the most socio-economically and politically deprived in the country. By the late 1990s there was a ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Boko Haram’s Terrorist Campaign in Nigeria

    Contexts, Dimensions and Emerging Trajectories

    Edited by Temitope B. Oriola, Freedom Onuoha, Samuel Oyewole ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Peace, Conflict and Security in Africa
    This book investigates the devastating impacts of the Boko Haram terrorist campaign in Nigeria, reflecting on the group’s historical context, organizational dynamics, and emerging trajectories.Since its inception in 2002, Boko Haram’s terrorist campaign has become one of the major threats to security and human development in West Africa, killing tens of thousands of people, and displacing many ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • The Unfinished Revolution in Nigeria’s Niger Delta

    Prospects for Environmental Justice and Peace

    Edited by Cyril Obi, Temitope Oriola ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Peace, Conflict and Security in Africa
    The 1990s heralded waves of spectacular forms of local resistance and globalized protest against oil exploitation and environmental pollution in oil-producing regions of the developing world. One of the most spectacular local uprisings against global oil multinationals was led by the Ogoni people who were protesting against the exploitation and marginalization of oil-producing ethnic minority ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

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    Series series War and Conflict in the Modern World
    The multi-billion dollar business of the international conventional arms trade involves virtually every country in the world. Around the globe, people's lives are being irrevocably changed by the effects of guns, tanks, and missiles. These weapons have the potential to cause a deadly and current threat - one responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths a year.This succinct and accessible new ... Read more

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  • War and Conflict in Africa

    by Paul D. Williams ...
    After the Cold War, Africa earned the dubious distinction of being the world's most bloody continent. But how can we explain this proliferation of armed conflicts? What caused them and what were their main characteristics? And what did the world's governments do to stop them?In this fully revised and updated second edition of his popular text, Paul Williams offers an in-depth and wide-ranging ... Read more

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  • Terrorism and Transnational Security Threats in West Africa:

    A Global Perspective

    by Adebayo E. Adeyemi PhD ...
    While it could be arguably stated that West Africa has achieved remarkable and sustainable progress in the areas of democratic governance and economic growth, the subregion, over the past few years, has been challenged by terrorism and other transnational security threats. Innocent civilians are continuously killed, security operatives and providers of humanitarian assistance are targeted, and ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Hard Power

    The New Politics of National Security

    by Kurt Campbell, Michael O'Hanlon ...
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  • Avoiding War with China

    Two Nations, One World

    by Amitai Etzioni ...
    Are the United States and China on a collision course? In response to remarks made by Donald Trump’s secretary of state, China’s state-run newspaper Global Times asserted, "Unless Washington plans to wage a large-scale war in the South China Sea, any other approaches to prevent Chinese access to the [disputed] islands will be foolish." Some experts contend that conflict is inevitable when an ... Read more

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  • Explaining the Iraq War

    Counterfactual Theory, Logic and Evidence

    by Frank P. Harvey ...
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  • How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything

    Tales from the Pentagon

    by Rosa Brooks ...
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  • Why Civil Resistance Works

    The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict

    by Erica Chenoweth, Maria Stephan ...
    Series series Columbia Studies in Terrorism and Irregular Warfare
    For more than a century, from 1900 to 2006, campaigns of nonviolent resistance were more than twice as effective as their violent counterparts in achieving their stated goals. By attracting impressive support from citizens, whose activism takes the form of protests, boycotts, civil disobedience, and other forms of nonviolent noncooperation, these efforts help separate regimes from their main ... Read more

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