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Rita Abrahamsen and Michael C. Williams, Security Beyond the State: Private Security in International Politics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010).
Afrobarometer Round 6 Survey Findings from 36 African Countries, 2015.
Peter Albrecht, Signe Marie Cold-Ravnkilde, and Rikke Haugegaard, “African Peacekeepers in Mali,” DIIS Report 2 (Copenhagen: Danish Institute for International Studies, 2017).
Zoltan Barany, The Soldier and the Changing State: Building Democratic Armies in Africa, Asia, and the Americas (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013).
Kwesi Aning, M. Anne Brown, Volker Boege, and Charles T. Hunt, eds., Exploring Peace Formation: Security and Justice in Post-Colonial States (London: Routledge, 2018).
Kwesi Aning and Festus Aubyn, “Ghana,” in Providing Peacekeepers: The Politics, Challenges, and Future of United Nations Peacekeeping Contributions, eds. Alex J. Bellamy and Paul D. Williams (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), 269-290.
Kwesi Aning, “Unintended consequences of peace operations for troop-contributing countries from West Africa: The case of Ghana,” in Unintended Consequences of Peacekeeping Operations, eds. Chiyuki Aoi, Cedric de Coning, and Ramesh Thakur (Tokyo: United Nations University Press, 2007), 133-155.
Kwesi Aning and Nancy Annan, “Africanizing the international and internationalizing Africa: security, war on terror and Mali,” in Africa in Global International Relations: Emerging approaches to theory and practice, eds. Paul-Henri Bischoff, Kwesi Aning, and Amitav Acharya (London: Routledge, 2016), 144-163.
Andrews Atta-Asamoah, “The Duality of the African State and Security Challenges,” Journal of African Political Economy & Development 1 (2016), 26-39.
Raymond Atugugba, “Abochie, Where is my Police? The Police Force and the Political Economy of Ghana” (interfaculty lecture delivered at the University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana, February 17, 2005).
Niagale Bakayoko, Eboe Hutchful, and Robin Luckham, “Hybrid security governance in Africa: rethinking the foundations of security, justice and legitimate public authority,” Conflict, Security & Development 16, no. 1 (2016), 1-32.
Danielle Bellamy and Paul Williams, eds., Providing Peacekeepers: The Politics, Challenges and future of United Nations Contributions (Oxford: OUP, 2013).
Habiba Ben Barka and Mthuli Ncube, “Political Fragility in Africa: Are Military Coups d’Etat a Never-Ending Phenomenon?” Economic Brief (Tunis: African Development Bank, 2012).
Danielle Beswick, “The Risks of Military Capacity Building: Lessons from Rwanda,” African Affairs 113, no. 451 (2014), 212-231.
Volker Boege, M. Anne Brown, and Kevin P. Clements, “Hybrid Political Orders, Not Fragile States,” Peace Review: A Journal of Social Justice 21, no. 1 (2009), 13-21.
David Chuter and Florence Gaub, “Understanding African Armies,” ISSUE 27 (Paris: EU Institute for Security Studies, 2016).
Philip Cunliffe, Legions of Peace: UN Peacekeepers from the Global South (London: Hurst, 2013).
Samuel Decalo, “The Morphology of Radical Military Rule in Africa,” Journal of Communist Studies 1, no. 3-4 (1985), 122-144.
Samuel Decalo, “Modalities of Civil-Military Stability in Africa,” Journal of Modern African Studies 27, no. 4 (1989), 547-578.
Samuel Decalo, Coups & Army Rule in Africa: Motivations and Constraints, 2nd Ed. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990).
Maggie Dwyer, “Peacekeeping Abroad, Trouble Making at Home: Mutinies in West Africa,” African Affairs 114, no. 455 (2015), 206-225.
“A Day in the Life of an African Soldier” (New York: Eurasia Group, 2010).
Samuel E. Finer, The Man on Horseback: The Role of the Military in Politics (New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1962).
Howard W. French, “Sierra Leone a Triumph of Peacemaking by Africans,” New York Times, December 2, 1996.
Jeffrey Herbst, “African Militaries and Rebellion: the Political Economy of Threat and Combat Effectiveness,” Journal of Peace Research 41, no. 3 (2004), 357-369.
Eboe Hutchful and Abdoulaye Bathily, eds., The Military and Militarism in Africa (Dakar: Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA), 1997).
Mathurin C. Houngnikpo, Guarding the Guardians: Civil-Military Relations and Democratic Governance in Africa (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2010).
Mathurin C. Houngnikpo, “Africa’s Militaries: A Missing Link in Democratic Transitions,” Africa Security Brief No. 17 (Washington, DC: Africa Center for Strategic Studies, 2012).
Herbert M. Howe, Ambiguous Order: Military Forces in African States (Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2001).
Obinna Ifediora and Kwesi Aning, “West Africa’s Ebola Pandemic: Toward Effective Multilateral Responses to Health Crises,” Global Governance 23 (2017), 225-244.
Jimmy David Kandeh, Coups from Below: Armed Subalterns and State Power in West Africa (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004).
George Klay Kieh, Jr. and Pita Ogaba Agbese, eds., The Military and Politics in Africa: From Engagement to Democratic and Constitutional Control (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004).
Kees Koonings and Dirk Kruijt, eds., Political Armies: The Military and Nation Building in the Age of Democracy (London: Zed Books, 2002).
Angela Mcintyre, Emmanuel Kwesi Aning, and Prosper Nii Nortey Addo, “Politics, War and Youth Culture in Sierra Leone: An alternative interpretation,” African Security Review 11, no. 3 (2010), 6-15.
Wuyi Omitoogun and Eboe Hutchful, eds., Budgeting for the Military Sector in Africa: The Process and Mechanisms of Control (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006).
Martin Revayi Rupiya, “Transformation of African Armies through Emphasis on Education Rather than Training during the Post-Conflict, Reconstruction and Development Phase,” International Journal of African Renaissance Studies 11, no. 1 (2016), 142-150.