Northern interventions into African countries at war are dominated by security concerns; but whose security? While the concepts of a common global security and human security gained prominence in the development discourse of the 1990s, two immense wars violated Congolese territorial sovereignty, bringing disaster to the population.
This book examines Congo s contemporary wars and the peace agreed in 2002 from a security perspective. It explores the apparent contradictions in the political, economic and military mechanisms of security installed at Independence. For while the 2002 peace...
Northern interventions into African countries at war are dominated by security concerns; but whose security? While the concepts of a common global ...