Add to ORKGWhy would an otherwise capable African government permit an insurgency to persist within its borders for an extended period of time while possessing the means to address it? Through a comparative approach, drawing on academic research on Uganda and the Lord's Resistance Army and Nigeria and Boko Haram, this thesis seeks to explain why some insurgencies persist for extended periods of time with minimal government intervention. The research suggests that in the case studies analyzed, Uganda and Nigeria have permitted the insurgencies to continue due to the economic and political benefits that they are able to derive from the ongoing conflict. African governments may at times exploit insurgency and internal conflict to meet political objective...
Abstract Since the end of the Cold War, sub-Saharan African states have substantially increased thei...
Philosophiae Doctor - PhDThe dissertation examines three military interventions in Sub-Saharan Afric...
The African continent is infamous for its lawlessness, violence, poverty, corruption, underdevelopme...
The governments of Nigeria, Mali, and Somalia have employed varied military assistance tools in an a...
The study examined the relationship between mass uprisings and insurgencies and the impact of intern...
The rising tide of insurgency in the 1990s in many parts of Africa is a new development in African p...
What factors drive governments’ decisions to intervene in local conflicts within their borders? Comm...
The steps-to-war theory suggests that power politics strategies, such as alliance formation, militar...
This paper examines the origin and operations of insurgency groups especially Boko Haram in Northern...
This dissertation examines the factors that contributed to the increase of number of internal wars i...
Africa has always been affected by external influences and factors such as Western colonial rule and...
Military coups have posed a persistent threat to political stability in Africa— undermining democrat...
Global datasets on interstate armed conflict suggest that African states clash with each other rarel...
This thesis represents an attempt to investigate whether differences in military capability between ...
The Second Congo War (1998–2003) is widely considered the deadliest conflict since World War II, yet...
Abstract Since the end of the Cold War, sub-Saharan African states have substantially increased thei...
Philosophiae Doctor - PhDThe dissertation examines three military interventions in Sub-Saharan Afric...
The African continent is infamous for its lawlessness, violence, poverty, corruption, underdevelopme...
The governments of Nigeria, Mali, and Somalia have employed varied military assistance tools in an a...
The study examined the relationship between mass uprisings and insurgencies and the impact of intern...
The rising tide of insurgency in the 1990s in many parts of Africa is a new development in African p...
What factors drive governments’ decisions to intervene in local conflicts within their borders? Comm...
The steps-to-war theory suggests that power politics strategies, such as alliance formation, militar...
This paper examines the origin and operations of insurgency groups especially Boko Haram in Northern...
This dissertation examines the factors that contributed to the increase of number of internal wars i...
Africa has always been affected by external influences and factors such as Western colonial rule and...
Military coups have posed a persistent threat to political stability in Africa— undermining democrat...
Global datasets on interstate armed conflict suggest that African states clash with each other rarel...
This thesis represents an attempt to investigate whether differences in military capability between ...
The Second Congo War (1998–2003) is widely considered the deadliest conflict since World War II, yet...
Abstract Since the end of the Cold War, sub-Saharan African states have substantially increased thei...
Philosophiae Doctor - PhDThe dissertation examines three military interventions in Sub-Saharan Afric...
The African continent is infamous for its lawlessness, violence, poverty, corruption, underdevelopme...
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