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Intro -- Contents -- A decade of Boko Haram activities: the attacks, responses and challenges ahead -- Introduction -- Where does Boko Haram belong? -- Spiral of violence: incidents, fatalities (death) and injuries -- Government response -- Special issue: specific findings and concluding argument -- References -- Correction to: A decade of Boko Haram activities: the attacks, responses and challenges ahead -- Correction to: Security Journal https​:doi.org10.1057s4128​4-020-00231​-9 -- A decade of terror: revisiting Nigeria's interminable Boko Haram insurgency -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Revisiting Boko Haram's decade of terror (2009-2019) -- The Al-Qaeda, AQIM, and the ISWAP factor -- A poorly motivated, underfunded, and under-equipped military -- Conclusion -- References -- Boko Haram insurgency: a decade of dynamic evolution and struggle for a caliphate -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Methodological issues -- Terrorist organisations: the territorial and de-territorial debates -- Boko Haram: does territory matter? -- The Kannama village under Mallam Yusuf Mohammed -- The Gwoza Caliphate under Abubakar Shekau -- The Caliphate of West Africa Province under Abu Musab al-Barnawi -- A reality or myth: the Islamic Caliphate agenda in West Africa -- Government response -- Conclusion -- References -- Counterinsurgency operations of the Nigerian military and Boko Haram insurgency: expounding the viscid manacle -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Counterinsurgency operations: a theoretical discourse -- Methodology -- Budgetary provisions and expenditure for security and defence in Nigeria -- Deficit in the military-led counterinsurgency -- Strategic level of counterinsurgency operations -- Operational level of counterinsurgency -- Tactical level of counterinsurgency operations -- Conclusion -- References.

Taking a multidisciplinary approach, this book evaluates the relations between globalization and Africa's multifarious challenges and identities. The nineteen chapters coalesce to demonstrate that the forces and processes of globalization have increased Africa's marginalization, deepened its crises, escalated and intensified its conflicts, and undermined its ability to determine the content and direction of its cultural changes and economic future