Towards “modern” counterinsurgency in Sub-Saharan Africa: lessons learnt from Nigeria and Mozambique
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Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09592318.2023.2298707" target="_blank" >https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09592318.2023.2298707</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09592318.2023.2298707" target="_blank" >10.1080/09592318.2023.2298707</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Towards “modern” counterinsurgency in Sub-Saharan Africa: lessons learnt from Nigeria and Mozambique
Original language description
This article investigates counterinsurgencies in Sub-Saharan Africa, especially those opposing insurgencies with an ethnic and/or sectarian character. Using a most-similar method of case selection, we select the cases of counterinsurgencies in Nigeria and Mozambique, which we examine in an exploratory way. We analyse the existing literature on counterinsurgency strategies and investigate possible problems with their application to contemporary Islamist insurgencies in Sub-Saharan Africa. Adopting trends and information from case studies as well as from the theoretical principles explored in several studies regarding the US counterinsurgency campaign in Iraq, we propose a new theoretical model of a possible counterinsurgency strategy for Sub-Saharan countries against ethnic and/or sectarian insurgencies. This model combines practices from classical counterinsurgency theory with suggestions regarding the ethnic and/or sectarian background of the particular insurgents and specific factors of the region of Sub-Saharan Africa. In conclusion, we discuss the broader issues of African counterinsurgency and propose a possible future enhancement to the model and its replicability for other cases.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50601 - Political science
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Small Wars and Insurgencies
ISSN
0959-2318
e-ISSN
1743-9558
Volume of the periodical
35
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
28
Pages from-to
256-283
UT code for WoS article
001138032700001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85182214164