Postcolonial Security

Marco Wyss (FRHistS, FHEA) is the Director of the Centre for War and Diplomacy and Reader in International History and Security at Lancaster University, a Research Fellow at the University of the Free State, and an Associate Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies. He is the editor of the International Journal of Military History and Historiography, and co-editor of Brill's New Perspectives on the Cold War book series. He is the author of Un Suisse au service de la SS (Alphil-Presses universitaires suisses, 2010),Arms Transfers, Neutrality and Britain's Role in the Cold War (Brill, 2013), and co-editor of Peacekeeping in Africa (Routledge, 2014),Neutrality and Neutralism in the Global Cold War (Routledge, 2016), The Handbook of European Defence Policies and Armed Forces (Oxford University Press, 2018) and Europe and China in the Cold War (Brill, 2018).

• Part I: Postcolonial Defence 1: The Anglo-Nigerian Defence Agreement 2: The Franco-Ivorian Cooperation Agreements Part II: Neo-colonial Collusion? 3: The Demise of the Anglo-Nigerian Special Relationship 4: The Ivorian Regime and the French Security Guarantee Part III: Military Assistance 5: British Leadership Questioned 6: A French Prerogative Part IV: The United States 7: British Partner 8: French Rival Conclusion

For anyone interested in the complex relationship between the Cold War, decolonization and post-colonial security in Africa this book is a must-read. Wyss provides the first ever systematic, comparative analysis of the establishment of postcolonial security relationships in Cold War Africa. The book will be of interest to historians but also to scholars of Area, Development, and Security Studies, as well as International Relations.