Contemporary Intelligence in Africa

1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-42965-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 340 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 653 g

Reihe: Studies in Intelligence

The edited volume examines contemporary intelligence and tradecraft in Africa.

The work offers a timely and empirically grounded account of African intelligence. It provides a multi-contributor narrative that explains contemporary dynamics without discounting historical and external influences, as well as explaining systemic dynamics borne by African agency. The volume features chapters on different issues and themes in intelligence studies, which include but are not limited to intelligence politicization, covert operations and subversion during political transitions, institutionalizing intelligence in post-conflict states, intelligence and counterterrorism, financial intelligence and complex crimes, intelligence professionalization, media and intelligence, intelligence humanization, environmental intelligence, and others. The volume is geographically representative and features case studies from the five regions of Africa: North Africa (the Maghreb), East Africa (or Horn of), Central Africa, West Africa, and Southern Africa. Without following a specific theoretical orientation, the book also aims to start a conversation around the prospects for a theory for African intelligence, with the various chapters paying attention to the political, social, and economic nuances that have a bearing on contemporary intelligence in Africa.

This book will be of great interest to students of intelligence studies, African politics, security studies, and IR.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gwatiwa, Tshepo

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Gewalt Terrorismus, Religiöser Fundamentalismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Nachrichtendienste, Geheimdienste
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen Nationale und Internationale Sicherheits- und Verteidigungspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Staatsbürgerkunde, Staatsbürgerschaft, Zivilgesellschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Contemporary Intelligence in Africa  2. Towards a Cosmic Theory of African Intelligence: Pathways to a Dialectic Engagement  3. Intelligence Personalization and Politicization in Africa: A Continental Survey  4. Morocco's Intelligence Services and the Makhzen Surveillance System  5. Intelligence Operations During the Transition in the Sudan   6. Intelligence and Counterterrorism in Ghana  7. Intelligence and Countering Terrorism in 'Ungoverned Spaces' in the Sahel Region  8. Intelligence Services and National Security in Nigeria  9. Rebuilding National Intelligence in Post-Conflict Africa: Case of Somalia  10. Towards Humanization of Intelligence and Security Services in the Democratic Republic of Congo  11. The Professionalisation of Intelligence in Africa  12. From Counterinsurgency to Counterterrorism: The Development of Kenya’s National Intelligence Enterprise  13. Law Enforcement Intelligence in Uganda  14. Sharpening the Use of Financial Intelligence to Combat Complex Crimes in Southern Africa  15. The Media and Security Intelligence in Africa: A Complicated Relationship  16. Private Security Intelligence in West Africa: Corporate and Private Sector Intelligence in Nigeria  17. Intelligence in Sub-Saharan African Widlife Protected Areas: Clashing Contemporary Practices and a Prospective Biocentric Strategic Environment Intelligence (BISEINT) Paradigm  18. The Open Conversation on African Intelligence

Über Autor(innen)

Tshepo Gwatiwa is a Lecturer in Intelligence Studies at Macquarie University (Sydney, Australia) and Senior Researcher Fellow at the Institute for Pan-African Thought and Conversation (IPATC), University of Johannesburg (South Africa). He is the author of The African Union and African Agency in International Politics (2022) and is co-editor (with Justin van der Merwe) of Expanding US Military Command in Africa: Elites, Networks and Grand Strategy (2021).