Expanding US military command in Africa : elites, networks and grand strategy /

This book discusses the systematic expansion of the United States Africa Command (AFRICOM) across the continent of Africa. This book posits that AFRICOM expansion in Africa is part of a broader system of accumulation based on a government-business-media (GBM) complex. Applying the concept at both st...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Gwatiwa, Tshepo (Editor), Van der Merwe, Justin, 1980- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2021.
Series:Routledge global security studies.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introducing AFRICOM Expansion in Africa / Tshepo Gwatiwa and Justin van der Merwe
  • Expanding US Africa Command: Reintegrating Africa within the US's System of Accumulation / Justin van der Merwe
  • Multilateral Diplomacy in the Formation of US Africa Command: Reflections on US Africa Policy and Engagement from Bush through Obama, 2000-2016 / Michael A. Battle
  • The Genesis and Origins of AFRICOM / William M. Wyatt
  • AFRICOM'S Military Base in Djibouti: a History of Its Advancement / Degan Sun and Yahia H. Zoubir
  • Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance in the Expansion of AFRICOM: Africa in America's
  • "Panopticon" / Tshepo Gwatiwa
  • Security, Circulation and Biopolitics: US Africa Command's Response to Ebola / Catriona Gold
  • The Economic and Business Side of US AFRICOM in Africa: Governments, Land Lease, Aid, Corporations and Military Expansion in Djibouti / Ditabeng Mokoena and Tshepo Gwatiwa
  • The US Africa Command and [Under]Development in Africa: an Appraisal of the USA's Securitization of Development in Africa / Khayalandile Lwando Mthamo
  • Agenda-Setting or Reinforcement? The African Media's Reporting and its Impact on AFRICOM's Soft Power / Oluwaseun Tella
  • Conclusion
  • Imprinting Infrastructural and Affective Labour in Africa / Justin van der Merwe.