Book Review: ‘Women and security governance in Africa’

Abstract: With its huge population of 150 million, more than half of whom live in cities where material deprivation, political violence and pervasive corruption feed resentments; a citizenry fragmented among more than 250 ethnic  and/or religious minorities; and a history of 10 military coups since independence; it is hardly surprising that the problem of political instability, even the question of [...]

Globalising Security Culture and Knowledge in Practice: Nigeria’s Hybrid Model

Hills, A. 2012. Globalising Security Culture and Knowledge in Practice: Nigeria’s Hybrid Model. Globalizations  (9)1: 91–106. Public police around the world share certain occupational commonalities, but this does not represent a globalising security culture. Certain norms may appear to facilitate a less ambitious internationalist or transnational culture by modifying police behaviour through processes of socialisation and internalisation, [...]