LEADER 04701nam 22006374a 450 001 9910821396403321 005 20240417020901.0 010 $a1-84964-039-4 010 $a0-585-42670-8 035 $a(CKB)111056486517348 035 $a(EBL)3386096 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000519102 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12231411 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000519102 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10495995 035 $a(PQKB)11363824 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3386096 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr2004361 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL987791 035 $a(OCoLC)923330517 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3386096 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111056486517348 100 $a19990524d2000 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aMercenaries$b[electronic resource] $ean African security dilemma /$fedited by Abdel-Fatau Musah and J. ?Kayode Fayemi ; foreword by Lord Avebury 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aLondon ;$aSterling, Va. $cPluto Press$d2000 215 $a1 online resource (320 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-7453-1471-6 311 $a0-7453-1476-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a""Contents ""; ""About the Centre for Democracy and Development ""; ""Programme on Conflict Management, Regional Security & Peacebuilding ""; ""Foreword ""; ""Acknowledgements ""; ""Abbreviations and Acronyms ""; ""Introduction ""; ""Brief Overview of the African Encounter with Mercenarism ""; ""Structure of Book ""; ""Synopsis ""; ""Introduction Notes ""; ""1. Africa in Search of Security: Mercenaries and Conflicts An Overview ""; ""What is Mercenarism? ""; ""Political Context of Mercenary Activities in Africa during the Cold War ""; ""The Mercenary Agenda in Contemporary Africa "" 327 $a""What Future for Mercenarism? """"Re-conceptualising the Security Environment ""; ""Improving the Legal Frameworks of Mercenarism: Between Regulation and Redundancy ""; ""Conclusion ""; ""Notes Chapter 1 ""; ""2. Private Military Companies and African Security 1990 98 ""; ""PMCs and the 'New World Order' ""; ""PMCs before 1990 ""; ""EO in 1990-92 ""; ""PMCs in Angola 1993-97 ""; ""PMCs in Central Africa 1996-1998 ""; ""PMCs in Angola and Sierra Leone 1998 ""; ""Other PMC Activity in Africa ""; ""PMCs in South Africa since 1991 "" 327 $a""Executive Outcomes and Branch- Heritage: The EO- Branch Network """"The Branch- Heritage Group ""; ""Strategic Resources Corporation ""; ""Plaza 107 Ltd ""; ""Links between the Branch- Heritage group and Executive Outcomes ""; ""Conclusion ""; ""Note on Sources ""; ""Notes Chapter 2 ""; ""3. A Country Under Siege: State Decay and Corporate Military Intervention in Sierra Leone ""; ""Early Private Security in the Political Economy of Sierra Leone ""; ""Sierra Leone A Portrait ""; ""The Colonial Imprint ""; ""Military/ Defence Structures in Sierra Leone "" 327 $a""The Anatomy of State Collapse """"Economic Decline and Mounting Tensions ""; ""Challenges to the Neocolonial State ""; ""Emergence of the Revolutionary United Front ""; ""The Gurkha Security Guards ""; ""Executive Outcomes ""; ""The Peace Agreement ""; ""Post- Election Traumas ""; ""The Price of EO intervention ""; ""Corporate Mercenaries in the Kabbah Administration s Strategic Thinking ""; ""Reactions to the 25 May Coup ""; ""The Plot behind an African Coup ""; ""Sandline International ""; ""Motives behind the Assault Partnership "" 327 $a""The Vultures Swoop: A Country under Mercenary Occupation """"Is Sierra Leone any Closer to Peace and Democracy? ""; ""Weapons Continue to Dominate Sierra Leone ""; ""Conclusion: Winners and Losers ""; ""Notes Chapter 3 ""; ""4. The Hand of War: Mercenaries in the Former Zaire 1996 97 ""; ""The Congo as Cradle of Modern-day Mercenarism in Africa ""; ""The Revolutionary Wind of Change, 1996 ""; ""War in Eastern Zaire and the First Tutsi- led Rebellion ""; ""Mercenaries for Mobutu ""; ""War Bonanza ""; ""Executive Outcomes ""; ""Confusion in Kinshasa "" 327 $a""Western European Forces under Christian Tavernier "" 330 $aA critique of mercenary involvement in post Cold-War African conflicts. 606 $aMercenary troops$zAfrica 607 $aAfrica$xHistory$y1960- 615 0$aMercenary troops 676 $a960.3/2 701 $aMusah$b Abdel-Fatau$01594098 701 $aFayemi$b Kayode$01594099 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910821396403321 996 $aMercenaries$93914523 997 $aUNINA