04735nam 2200649 450 991078786110332120230607231705.01-62637-112-110.1515/9781626371125(CKB)2670000000546555(EBL)3329051(SSID)ssj0001134241(PQKBManifestationID)12464055(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001134241(PQKBWorkID)11161501(PQKB)10446368(MiAaPQ)EBC3329051(Au-PeEL)EBL3329051(CaPaEBR)ebr10913669(OCoLC)929120034(DE-B1597)623086(DE-B1597)9781626371125(EXLCZ)99267000000054655520140902h20022002 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrLiberia's civil war Nigeria, ECOMOG, and regional security in West Africa /Adekeye AdebajoBoulder, Colorado :Lynne Rienner Publishers,2002.©20021 online resource (301 p.)Project of the International Peace AcademyDescription based upon print version of record.1-58826-052-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.""Book Title""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Foreword - David M. Malone""; ""Foreword - Amos Sawyer""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Map of Liberia""; ""ch 1-Introduction""; ""Regional Security in Postâ€?Cold War Africa""; ""Main Questions and Arguments""; ""Contingencies and Concepts""; ""Contribution to the Existing Literature""; ""Approach and Sources""; ""Organization of the Study""; ""Notes""; ""ch 2-A Decade of Troubles: Master-Sergeant Samuel Doeâ€?s Liberia, 1980â€?1989""; ""The Americo-Liberian Oligarchy""; ""The Year of Ferment""; ""The Men on Horseback""; ""The Limits of a Lumpenmilitariat""""The Anglophonie: Ghana, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone""""The United States""; ""The United Nations and OAU""; ""The Cotonou Agreement""; ""Notes""; ""ch 7-The Tortuous Road to Akosombo, August 1993â€?August 1994""; ""Nigeria: From Babangida to Abacha""; ""Of Warlords, Wealth, and War Crimes""; ""Keeping Peace Where There Is None""; ""Policing the Peacekeepers""; ""The LNTGâ€?s Difficult Birth""; ""ECOWAS""; ""The United States""; ""Ghana""; ""Notes""; ""Part 3-A Banquet for the Warlords, September 1994-July 1997""; ""ch 8-The Pied Piper of Accra, September 1994â€?August 1995""""The Akosombo Agreement""""Gunboat Diplomacy""; ""The NPFL Split""; ""The Accra Agreement""; ""From Accra to Abuja""; ""The Abuja Agreement""; ""The United Nations""; ""Nigeria""; ""The United States""; ""Peacekeeping""; ""Notes""; ""ch 9-Two Weddings and a Funeral,September 1995â€?August 1996""; ""The Council of Warlords""; ""The Tubmanburg Troubles""; ""The Gathering Storm""; ""Dog Days in Monrovia""; ""The Peace Train Returns to Abuja""; ""Notes""; ""ch 10-Farewell to Arms? September 1996â€?July 1997""; ""Mother Courage and Her Children""; ""General Malu, Chief Ikimi, and the Warlords""""Disarming the Factions""Liberia's Civil War offers the most in-depth account available of one of the most baffling and intractable of Africa's conflicts. Adekeye Adebajo unravels the tangled web of the conflict by addressing four questions:  Why did Nigeria intervene in Liberia and remain committed throughout the seven-year civil war? To what extend was ECOMOG's intervention shaped by Nigeria's hegemonic aspirations? What domestic, regional, and external factors prevented ECOMOG from achieving its objectives for so long? And what factors led eventually to the end of the war? In answering these questions--drawing on previously restricted ECOWAS and UN reports and numerous interviews with key actors--he sheds much-needed light on security issues in West Africa. The concluding chapter of the book assesses the continuing insecurity in Liberia under the repressive presidency of Charles Taylor and its destabilizing effect on the entire West Africa region.Project of the International Peace AcademyPeacekeeping forcesLiberiaLiberiaHistoryCivil War, 1989-1996LiberiaHistoryCivil War, 1989-1996Participation, NigerianPeacekeeping forces966.6203Adebajo Adekeye1966-285603International Peace Academy,MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910787861103321Liberia's civil war1055671UNINA