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Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Tables, Pictures, and Figures -- Acknowledgement -- Foreword -- The Global Peace and Security System -- Right to Peace and Security -- Role of the United Nations -- Chapter One - The UN System and Primacy of Global Peace and Security -- Overview -- Introduction -- Facing the Past: The League of Nations and the United Nations -- The Growth of a System -- What Is the United Nations? -- Birth of the United Nations -- Conflict Prevention -- Women and Children in Conflict -- Peaceful Uses of Outer Space -- Another Failed UN Mission -- The UN in the Post-Cold War Period -- A New International Age? -- Rule of Law and Global Peace and Security -- Failure of the International Peace and Security System -- Regional Cooperation: Conflict Prevention and Security through Interdependence -- Experiences of the Recent Past -- The Challenges for the Countries of Eastern Europe -- The Challenge Ahead -- References -- Chapter Two - The UNO and Plaguing Conflicts, Wars, and Terrorism -- Overview -- Introduction -- Some Things to know about the State of Conflict in the World Today -- 1. The world is becoming less peaceful -- 2. The nature of conflict is changing -- 3. Violence costs the world vast amounts of money -- 4. 1% of the world's population is now displaced or refugees -- References -- Chapter Three - The UN And Bloody Law: International Law as Primitive Accumulation -- Overview -- Dissecting the Dynamics of Primitive Accumulation -- International Law in Historical Perspective -- Role of Capital in International Law -- Meddling is routine -- U.S. Imperial Wars Unleash Long-Term International Violenceand Chaos -- Disregarding international law -- International law and the "Bush Doctrine" -- The Centrality of Imperial Law -- The Uses of Imperial Law -- The Veto -- References.

"Given the dramatic changes that have taken place in global politics in recent years (especially following September 11, 2001), it is time to examine a series of critical issues confronting the global political economy. One of the most important of these issues is terrorism and its relationship with weak states. This book examines the weak state-terrorism nexus with particular emphasis on Africa. Specifically, it provides an in-depth analysis of state weakness, poverty, and the opportunities offered by the latter for the breeding of terrorism and terrorists. It also looks at the part played by radical Islam in transnational terrorism in Africa. Emerging from this study is recognition of a need for the international system to analyze a wide range of issues that contribute to the weakening of African states."--Provided by publisher.

Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- Part I. Prolegomena to the Colonial Ages of Empire-Old and New -- Preview -- Chapter 1 - Introduction and Summary -- Overview -- Introduction -- Methodology for our social science research -- European Colonization of Asia as template -- Eugenics -- Colonialism and the expansion of Empires -- Decolonization of Asia and Africa, 1945–1960 -- Africa in the Crosshairs of Old Colonial Empire -- Land-grabbing: myth and reality -- Mozambique: Still under threat -- Post colonialism -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 2 - On Colonial Empire: Theoretical Situatedness -- Overview -- Introduction -- The Problem with Contemporary Theorizing on Imperialism -- Capitalism and Colonial Empire -- Racialization, Resistance, and the multi-racial working class -- Capitalism and Colonial Empire -- Colonialism and Imperialism -- Geopolitics, war, and violence -- Cultural representations and subjectivity -- Global Strategies: US Imperial State and the MNC -- Military versus Economic Imperialist at the 'National Level' -- The Specificities of Extractive Imperialism in the Era of "Post Neo-Liberalism" -- Africa's Right Turn: The Co-Habitation of Extractive and Military Imperialism -- Capitalist Development, Class Struggle and Imperialism -- Imperialism in an Era of State-led Capitalist Development (1950–80) -- Imperialism and Capitalism in an Era of Neoliberal Globalization (1980–2000) -- Resistance and Collaboration by the colonized in an Era of Extractive Capitalism -- References -- Part II. Africa in the Old Colonial Age of Empire -- Preview -- Chapter 3 - The Cotton Empire of Slavery, Racism and Resistance -- Overview -- Introduction -- Slaves as Capital -- Irish and African Slaves in America -- Slaves Built American Capitalism

Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Principles of Journalism -- African Political Systems -- Propaganda and Censorship -- A Statement of Concern -- Chapter 1 - The Media Context -- Definition of Freedom -- Chapter 2 - Why Does Freedom Of The Press Matter? -- Attacks on Press Freedom -- The State and the Press -- Is the state neutral? -- Chapter 3 - Patterns of Repression -- Victimisation -- Bias in appointment-making -- Freedom of criticism -- Press Freedom and the Power Structure -- Chapter 4 - Whose Failures? -- Journalists' Unions -- Relations with the Public -- Relations with Authorities -- Chapter 5 - Conclusion: Press Censorship and Social Equilibrium -- Press Censorship and Social Equilibrium -- Appendix - My Final Statement of Shared Purpose -- Selected Bibliography -- Back cover.

Contemporary social science is a product of the capitalist world-system and Eurocentrism is constitutive of the geoculture of this system characterized by the parochiality of its universalism, assumptions about the superiority of Western civilization and imposition as the sole theory of global progress. The creation of these structures of knowledge, specifically the institutionalization of the social sciences, is a phenomenon that is inextricably linked to the very formation and maturation of Europe's capitalist world system or imperialism. There is therefore nothing that is natural, logical

Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Chapter I - Introduction: Framing the Global Democratic Dynamic -- Overview -- Untitled -- The "White Man's Burden"? -- Promoting Western Democracy -- A family portrait of democracy -- Instrumental and intrinsic value of democracy -- On absolute and relative universality of the concept of democracy -- On idealism, hypocrisy and pragmatism in promoting democracy -- Globalization and spread of Democracy -- Competitive Western Democracy -- Western model of 'Liberal Democracy' as The 'New World Order'? -- Chapter II - Western Liberal Democracy as Cognitive Imperialism: A Theoretical Exploration -- Overview -- Introduction -- Towards a Definition of Cognitive Imperialism -- Indigenous Democratic Knowledge and Eurocentrism -- Definitions: Liberalism, the West and Hegemony -- International Institutions -- International Trade/ Economic Interdependence -- Democracy or Recolonization? -- Denial of Capitalist Democratic Hegemony and Contesting Concepts of Class -- Expunging Class Altogether -- Admitting Some Concepts of Class While Excluding those of Marx -- Marx's Concept as Counterhegemonic -- The Repression of Marx's Concept of Class (Just like the Quakers in the 17th, 18th, 19th century) -- Seeds of Competitive Western Democracy -- Social Injustice and Unsustainability of Western Democracy -- Conclusion -- Chapter III - Globalization and Democratization as Rewesternization -- Overview -- Introduction -- Background to Exporting Western Democracy -- Cold War Origins of Western Crusade for Democratization -- Theorizing Globalization and Democratization as Rewesternization -- Globalization and Legal Rewesernization of the South -- Western Bastardization of Democratization -- Perils of Imposing Western Democracy -- Hard Lessons of Democratic Imperialism.

Contemporary social science is a product of the capitalist world-system and Eurocentrism is constitutive of the geoculture of this system characterized by the parochiality of its universalism, assumptions about the superiority of Western civilization and imposition as the sole theory of global progress. The creation of these structures of knowledge, specifically the institutionalization of the social sciences, is a phenomenon that is inextricably linked to the very formation and maturation of Europe's capitalist world system or imperialism. There is therefore nothing that is natural, logical, or accidental about the institutionalization of the social sciences. These Europeanized structures of knowledge are imposed ways of producing knowledge of the world. This Eurocentrism of social science has justifiably come under increasingly vigorous scrutiny, especially in the period since 1945 with the formal decolonization of Africa, Asia, and much of the Caribbean. This book forcefully argues that if social science is to make any progress in the twenty-first century, it must overcome its Eurocentric heritage that has distorted social analyses and its capacity to deal with the problems of the contemporary world and embrace other non-Western funds of knowledge production.

There seems to be a sort of prevalent attitude in the Western world that its brand of democracy is something of a catch all solution for all the world's political problems. Hence, Western imperialism has always been sold under the pretext of spreading freedom and democracy. Democracy is beautiful. But it is no proof against imperialism. Whether democracy is causal is another whole consideration. It may be a case of the 'least bad of evil alternatives.' It may be a case of a state of social and political development over and above the way people organize themselves. It may be the fate of rational life on a planet with insufficient energy reserves to support locomotion without predation. But what gives anyone the right to go into a sovereign country and change its foundation through War? The whole democracy & freedom line is a lie to give Western imperialism a friendly face. Imperialism and its lie of spreading democracy is an unmitigated evil, whether for material gain, or the pride fostered by active participation in the machinery of state. Therefore, a people seeking to control their destiny must decolonize imposed Western democracy.

Africaís dynamic security environment is characterized by great diversityófrom conventional challenges such as insurgencies, resource and identity conflicts, and post-conflict stabilization to growing threats from piracy, narcotics trafficking, violent extremism, and organized crime taking root in urban slums, among others. This precarious environment jeopardizes security at the societal, community and individual levels. In a globalized and interconnected world, millions of people worldwide are affected by some form of human insecurity. Infectious and parasitic diseases annually kill millions

Africaís dynamic security environment is characterized by great diversityófrom conventional challenges such as insurgencies, resource and identity conflicts, and post-conflict stabilization to growing threats from piracy, narcotics trafficking, violent extremism, and organized crime taking root in urban slums, among others. This precarious environment jeopardizes security at the societal, community and individual levels. In a globalized and interconnected world, millions of people worldwide are affected by some form of human insecurity. Infectious and parasitic diseases annually kill millions.

Democracy is the faith that the process of experience is more important than any special result attained, so that special results achieved are of ultimate value only as they are used to enrich and order the ongoing process. Africans must therefore be allowed to apply their cultural and historical experiences and talents in working out a pattern of ëgovernment of the people, by the people, and for the peopleí according to their own understanding and as their own peculiar circumstances demand. Those who do not want the vertical ëWestern-Style Democracyí must be given a fair chance to demonstrate