Postcolonial Security: Britain, France, and West Africa's Cold War

ISBN-13: 9780198843023 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 352 str.

Marco Wyss

Opis

This book studies the making of the postcolonial security relationships between Britain and Nigeria, and France and Côte d'Ivoire. It not only assesses the Cold War in West Africa, also Britain's military withdrawal from Africa, and France's continuously strong military footprint in the region

Recenzje

For anyone interested in the complex relationship between the Cold War, decolonization and post-colonial security in Africa this book is a must-read. Wyss provides the first ever systematic, comparative analysis of the establishment of postcolonial security relationships in Cold War Africa. The book will be of interest to historians but also to scholars of Area, Development, and Security Studies, as well as International Relations. Tony Chafer, Professor of French and African Studies, University of Portsmouth

O autorze

Marco Wyss (FRHistS, FHEA) is the Director of the Centre for War and Diplomacy and Reader in International History and Security at Lancaster University, a Research Fellow at the University of the Free State, and an Associate Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies. He is the editor of the International Journal of Military History and Historiography, and co-editor of Brill's New Perspectives on the Cold War book series. He is the author of Un Suisse au service de la SS (Alphil-Presses universitaires suisses, 2010),Arms Transfers, Neutrality and Britain's Role in the Cold War (Brill, 2013), and co-editor of Peacekeeping in Africa (Routledge, 2014),Neutrality and Neutralism in the Global Cold War (Routledge, 2016), The Handbook of European Defence Policies and Armed Forces (Oxford University Press, 2018) and Europe and China in the Cold War (Brill, 2018).