Grey Zone Conflicts in Africa

• Utgivningsdatum: 2026-11-03
• Mått: 156 x 234 x 26 mm
• Vikt: 830 g
• Format: Inbunden
• Språk: Engelska
• Serie: Routledge Advances in Defence Studies
• Antal sidor: 344
• Förlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• ISBN: 9781041232582

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Dries Putter is Division Head for Security and Africa Studies, Senior Lecturer in defence intelligence studies at Stellenbosch University’s Faculty of Military Science, South Africa, and Extraordinary Researcher at North-West University’s Centre for Geopolitical Security and Strategy. He is on active duty with the rank of Captain in the South Africa Navy.Sascha-Dominik Dov Bachmann is Professor of international law and security at the University of Canberra’s Faculty of Business, Government and Law, Australia. He is Extraordinary Reader in war studies (Docent) at the Swedish Defence University. He is affiliated with the Department of Strategic Studies, Faculty of Military Science, Stellenbosch University, and the Risk and Crisis Centre, Mid Sweden University. Sascha is Lieutenant Colonel (German Army Reserves) with operational experience in peace support missions.

'We don’t know enough about Africa and its complex geographical and geopolitical security landscape. This book helps to fill the void in our knowledge and explains the nature of the conflicts emerging there. It holds important lessons for the rest of the world.'Lieutenant General (RETD) Professor Peter Leahy, Former Head of the Australian Army'This edited collection will become the standard text on hybrid warfare in Africa. It fills an empirical gap in the ever-burgeoning literature on this form of conflict, whilst shedding much-needed light on the overlooked nature of such threats on the African continent.'Andrew Mumford, Professor of War Studies, University of Nottingham, UK'Exploring the concept of grey zone in all its dimensions, and expanding the concept of hybrid warfare at its maximum, this book by Bachmann and Putter associates new forms of conflict with the geopolitical visions of major competitors such as Russia and China. Africa is not merely a periphery but a fertile playground due to its fragmented security landscape, and has become the new arena where competition among great powers plays out.'Guillaume Lasconjarias, Director Research and Studies, French High Institute for National Defense (IHEDN)'Hybrid warfare and grey zone activities are concepts that are now well established in literature on modern conflict, thanks in part to the work of colleagues such as Sascha Dov Bachmann and Håkan Gunneriusson. Understanding these concepts is critical now that international norms are giving way to coercion and threatened use of force. It is timely and illuminating therefore to read this collection in the context of Africa, where major powers are increasingly exercising such statecraft, but so too are other actors and African nations themselves.'Andrew Dowse, Senior Non-resident Fellow, RAND Australia'Grey Zone Conflict in Africa is a fascinating book co-edited by Dries Putter and Sascha-Dominik Dov Bachmann, connecting the reader to the African battlespace in the conduct of hybrid warfare in various weak and fragmented African nation-states. The book is a must-read for current and future military practitioners, security experts and members of the diplomatic corps.'Brigadier General (Retd) Marcelino Peter Sereko, Advisory Board Member, Centre for Geopolitical Security and Strategy (NWU, SA)

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