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[null,null,"Titolo",null,"Mercenaries [[electronic resource] ] : an African security dilemma / / edited by Abdel-Fatau Musah and J. ʻKayode Fayemi ; foreword by Lord Avebury"]
[null,null,"Pubbl/distr/stampa",null,"London ; ; Sterling, Va., : Pluto Press, 2000"]
[null,null,"ISBN",null,"1-84964-039-4"]
[{"$nulls":4},"0-585-42670-8"]
[null,null,"Descrizione fisica",null,"1 online resource (320 p.)"]
[null,null,"Disciplina",null,"960.3/2"]
[null,null,"Soggetti",null,"Mercenary troops - Africa"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Electronic books."]
[{"$nulls":4},"Africa History 1960-"]
[null,null,"Lingua di pubblicazione",null,"Inglese"]
[null,null,"Formato",null,"Materiale a stampa"]
[null,null,null,"Livello bibliografico","Monografia"]
[null,null,null,"Note generali","Description based upon print version of record."]
[null,null,null,"Nota di bibliografia","Includes bibliographical references and index."]
[null,null,"Nota di contenuto",null,"\"\"Contents \"\"; \"\"About the Centre for Democracy and Development \"\"; \"\"Programme on Conflict Management, Regional Security & Peacebuilding \"\"; \"\"Foreword \"\"; \"\"Acknowledgements \"\"; \"\"Abbreviations and Acronyms \"\"; \"\"Introduction \"\"; \"\"Brief Overview of the African Encounter with Mercenarism \"\"; \"\"Structure of Book \"\"; \"\"Synopsis \"\"; \"\"Introduction Notes \"\"; \"\"1. Africa in Search of Security: Mercenaries and Conflicts   An Overview \"\"; \"\"What is Mercenarism? \"\"; \"\"Political Context of Mercenary Activities in Africa during the Cold War \"\"; \"\"The Mercenary Agenda in Contemporary Africa \"\""]
[{"$nulls":4},"\"\"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 \"\""]
[{"$nulls":4},"\"\"Executive Outcomes and Branch- Heritage: The EO- Branch Network \"\"\"\"The Branch- Heritage Group \"\"; \"\"Strategic Resources Corporation \"\"; \"\"Plaza 107 Ltd \"\"; \"\"Links between the Branch- Heritage group and Executive Outcomes \"\"; \"\"Conclusion \"\"; \"\"Note on Sources \"\"; \"\"Notes Chapter 2 \"\"; \"\"3. A Country Under Siege: State Decay and Corporate "]
[{"$nulls":4},"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 \"\""]
[{"$nulls":4},"\"\"The Anatomy of State Collapse \"\"\"\"Economic Decline and Mounting Tensions \"\"; \"\"Challenges to the Neocolonial State \"\"; \"\"Emergence of the Revolutionary United Front \"\"; \"\"The Gurkha Security Guards \"\"; \"\"Executive Outcomes \"\"; \"\"The Peace Agreement \"\"; \"\"Post- Election Traumas \"\"; \"\"The Price of EO intervention \"\"; \"\"Corporate Mercenaries in the Kabbah Administration   s Strategic Thinking \"\"; \"\"Reactions to the 25 May Coup \"\"; \"\"The Plot behind an African Coup \"\"; \"\"Sandline International \"\"; \"\"Motives behind the Assault Partnership \"\""]
[{"$nulls":4},"\"\"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 \"\""]
[{"$nulls":4},"\"\"Western European Forces under Christian Tavernier \"\""]