Expanding US Military Command in Africa: Elites, Networks and Grand Strategy

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Tshepo Gwatiwa (Macquarie University, Australia) Justin van der Merwe (Stellenbosch University, South Africa)

Expanding US Military Command in Africa

Elites, Networks and Grand Strategy

Tshepo Gwatiwa (Macquarie University, Australia), Justin van der Merwe (Stellenbosch University, South Africa)

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English

Routledge
29 January 2024

Peace studies & conflict resolution; Military history; Politics & government; Warfare & defence

Series: Routledge Global Security Studies

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 structural and descriptive levels, the GBM complex is a function of the synergy between the state’s quest for power, businesses’ need for expansion, and the informational and hegemonic functions of media actors. The United States’ GBM complex in Africa is supported—and in some locations spearheaded—by its military, with dispossessing effects on local actors. Drawing from African case studies, analytical accounts and empirical case studies, this book explores AFRICOM’s role within this broader strategy. The volume maps both the methods and the scope of this expansion, as well as local resistance to this process, and comprises perspectives from the five regions of Africa, key sub-regional organizations and voices from Africa’s regional hegemons.

This book will be of much interest to students of security studies, strategic studies, African politics and International Relations.

Edited by: Tshepo Gwatiwa (Macquarie University Australia), Justin van der Merwe (Stellenbosch University, South Africa)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9780367652968
ISBN 10: 036765296X
Series: Routledge Global Security Studies
Pages: 172
Publication Date: 29 January 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Tshepo Gwatiwa is a Research Associate at the African Centre for the Study of the United States (ACSUS) at University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, and a lecturer in the Department of International Relations at the same institution. Justin van der Merwe is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Military Studies (CEMIS) at Stellenbosch University, South Africa.