African border disorders: addressing transnational extremist organizations

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgments -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction: states, borders and political violence in Africa -- PART I Social networks and spatial patterns -- 1 Spatializing the social networks of the First Congo War -- 2 Exploring the spatial and social networks of transnational rebellions in Africa -- 3 Networks and spatial patterns of extremist organizations in North and West Africa -- 4 Spatial and temporal diffusion of political violence in North and West Africa -- PART II Transnational extremism and policy responses -- 5 Nigeria's Boko Haram: local, national and transnational dynamics -- 6 External incentives and the African subregional response to Boko Haram -- PART III States, civil society and transnational extremism -- 7 Terror, territory and statehood from Al Qaeda to the Islamic State -- 8 Public perceptions of violent extremism in Mali -- 9 Jihads and borders: social networks and spatial patterns in Africa, present, past and future -- Index