The Fall of Muammar Gaddafi and the Contemporary Security Debacle in West Africa: An Examination of Interconnectedness
Abstract:West Africa is a home of seventeen countries which are divided by colonial alienation. The region has three principal divisions i.e. Luzophone, Francophone and Anglophone and this imperial division dictates the direction of social and political events in the region. In terms of security architecture, the region is one of the most volatile areas of the international security concerns; and such security is dictated by exogenous issues. One of these exogenous issues is the fall of Gaddafi's Libya in 2011 and the … Show more
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