Perspectives on the state borders in globalized Africa /

"Assessing the different kinds of borders between African nations, the contributors present a borderland and trans-region approach to understanding the challenges and opportunities facing the peoples of the African continent. Africa faces rampant violence, terrorism, deterioration of water-ener...

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Other Authors: Sasaoka, Yūichi (Editor), Sumo Tayo, Aimé Raoul (Editor), Uesu, Sayoko (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2022.
Series:Routledge advances in international relations and global politics.
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Table of Contents:
  • New perspectives on the African state borders / Sasaoka
  • From contested borders to cross-border cooperation in the Lake Chad Basin : stakes and challenges / Sumo
  • A porous border and economic activity in the Kampala Kinshasa market, West Nile, Northern Africa / Yamizaki
  • Cross-border refugee crisis and local governments in the West Nile Region, Uganda / Kamei
  • Mobility as a culture in rural Africa / Sekiya
  • Micro-regionalism in Southern Africa / Sasaoka
  • Transnational violent actors in the borderlands of the Sahel and challenges for stabilization : any role for Japan? / Uesu
  • Insecurity in the Horn of Africa and IGAD / Takezawa
  • The hardening of African borders in the era of growing security threats and the Global War on Terror / Sumo
  • Porous boudaries and anisotropic mobility : migration and cross-border trade between Nigeria and Japan / Matsumoto
  • Decentralization and conflict prevention in East Africa / Sasaoka.