Global Development and Human Security explores the possibility of connecting all countries to the global economy while defusing the social tensions and managing the security risks that can result from exposure to a turbulent international system. The complex intersection between security and development policies has not been adequately mapped or explored. Frail and failing states that lack sound market and security institutions are the weak links in an interconnected global system. Yet aid allocation principles discourage engagement with these "difficult partners," and the insular...

This volume provides a systematic and cross-regional analysis of radicalisation, militancy and violence in West Africa, and addresses the implications of these developments in terms of both intra-national and international security.

A number of considerations demand attention to the rise of radicalisation and violence in West Africa. First, the decades of conflicts and instability in the region have made it vulnerable to all forms of cross-border instability. Second, the region has become important in global resource politics, with the United States confirming that a quarter of its oil...

This volume provides a systematic and cross-regional analysis of radicalisation, militancy and violence in West Africa.

Concern about terrorism in, or from, West Africa, has been recognised in academic research, and the adoption of militarised approaches to addressing it questioned. However, the basis for that questioning the need to investigate factors such as the historical and socio-economic roots of militancy is not developed, nor is it substantiated in existing studies. The significant impact of religiously motivated radicalisation and violence in West Africa upon international...