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dc.contributor.advisorStockton, Paul
dc.contributor.authorKulendi, Yonny
dc.date.accessioned2012-08-09T19:23:36Z
dc.date.available2012-08-09T19:23:36Z
dc.date.issued1997-12
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10945/8950
dc.description.abstractThis thesis argues that when West African states united to form the Economic Community of West African States Monitoring Group (ECOMOG), they did so for reasons very different from those that are advanced by most scholars and West African policy makers. The conventional wisdom holds that the ECOMOG intervention in Liberia was motivated by the desire of West African leaders to relieve the humanitarian disaster caused by the Liberian civil war. In contrast, I will argue that humanitarian considerations were far less important to the participating states than their desire to protect the political stability of their own regimes, which they believed would be threatened by a rebel victory over President Samuel Doe's Armed Forces of Liberia (AFL). In particular, they worried that a rebel victory in Liberia would constitute a dangerous precedent for other dissidents within the sub-region. Moreover, they were concerned that a Charles Taylor-controlled Liberia could become a "breeding ground" for similar insurgencies by dissidents fleeing their regimesen_US
dc.description.urihttp://archive.org/details/securitycooperat109458950
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherMonterey, California. Naval Postgraduate Schoolen_US
dc.titleSecurity cooperation in Africa: lessons from ECOMOGen_US
dc.contributor.secondreaderAbenheim, Donald
dc.subject.authorECOMOGen_US
dc.subject.authorECOWASen_US
dc.subject.authorsecurity issues in Africaen_US
dc.subject.authorFrancophone-Anglophone issuesen_US
dc.subject.authorAfrican alliancesen_US
dc.description.serviceGhana Bar Associationen_US
etd.thesisdegree.nameM.S. in Civil-Military Relationsen_US
etd.thesisdegree.levelMastersen_US
etd.thesisdegree.disciplineCivil-Military Relationsen_US
etd.thesisdegree.grantorNaval Postgraduate Schoolen_US
dc.description.distributionstatementApproved for public release; distribution is unlimited.


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