Strategic Security Issues in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Comprehensive Annotated Bibliography

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This text challenges the current thinking on strategic security issues in Sub-Saharan Africa by bringing the entire literature together on all of the regions and countries. It provides compelling international and foreign perspectives using various information systems. The book will interest those who want to understand the state and direction of strategic security studies on the continent. The sources in this bibliography are based on peer-reviewed journals, international nongovernmental studies, governmental reports, academic textbooks, and relevant newspaper articles. This volume is tightly organized and has a wide analytical scope and a great deal of information. Focus is on international and U.S influences driving African strategic security issues. The regional and country specific dimensions framing African strategic security issues are covered. This bibliography provides both an organization of expert scholarship and a strong concentration of core information profiles on Sub-Saharan Africa that is strategically based.

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The comprehensive annotated bibliography is a first step in providing both scholars and non-scholars an extensive material review and integrative analysis of the growing African strategic security literature.-African Research Bulletin: Political, Social & Cultural
"The comprehensive annotated bibliography is a first step in providing both scholars and non-scholars an extensive material review and integrative analysis of the growing African strategic security literature."-African Research Bulletin: Political, Social & Cultural

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MICHAEL J. SILER is Associate Professor of Political Science at California State University, Los Angeles. He has worked in the federal and state legislative arenas, think tanks, and the public sector. His central intellectual focuses include comparative nuclear proliferation studies, nuclear and WMD proliferation issues and the Third World, Al-Quaeda and global terrorism studies, international security, American foreign policy, and African studies.