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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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2021.
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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.