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The African Security Review is the ISS quarterly journal. It provides a regular high-quality forum for the dissemination of research findings and information through the publication of research reports, policy papers and articles on security and related issues in sub-Saharan Africa.
The Review was previously published as the African Defence Review (1994) and the Southern African Defence Review (1992-1993).
All these journals can be accessed via the chronological listing below.
ASR CONTRIBUTION INSTRUCTIONS
2009
Demystifying the advance fee fraud criminal network; The public sector corruption and organised crime nexus: The case of the fertiliser subsidy programme in Malawi; Prosecution politics: Recalibrating the role of prosecution within the anti-corruption agency agenda; Tusks and trinkets: An overview of illicit ivory trafficking in Africa; Madagascar’s political crisis: What options for the mediation process? Gabon: Continuity in transition; Mass Atrocity Response Operations: An annotated planning framework; The impact of clawback clauses on human and peoples’ rights in Africa; Understanding the West African cyber crime process; Human securitised reintegration of formerly abducted children in Northern Uganda; Book Reviews: Basic concepts, issues and strategies of peace and conflict resolution: Nigerian–African conflict case studies Aja Akpuru-Aja Intelligence power in peace and war
Maritime piracy in Africa: The humanitarian dimension. Donna Nincic; Bad order at sea: From the Gulf of Aden to the Gulf of Guinea, Francois Vreÿ; Sea piracy and maritime security in the Horn of Africa: The Somali coast and Gulf of Aden in perspective, Freedom C Onuoha; Enhancing regional maritime cooperation in Africa: The planned end state, Paul Musili Wambua; Maritime security and international law in Africa, John Gibson; Coups d’état in Africa between 1958 and 2008, Compiled by David Zounmenou; The battle for Mogadishu: Revealing Somalia’s fluid loyalties and identities, Paula Cristina Roque; Financial disclosure in three African countries: All bark and little bite, Rosemary Vickerman; The legal challenge of civil militia groups in Kenya, H Nanjala Nyabola; Whose security? Understanding the Niger Delta crisis as a clash of two security conceptions, Ufo Okeke Uzodike and Christopher Isike; Distance education and e-learning: The SANDF should get it right! Abel Esterhuyse; To patrol is to control: Ensuring situational awareness in Africa’s maritime exclusive economic zones; O S Ibrahim; Book Reviews: Qaddafi’s Libya in world politics; Contemporary piracy and maritime terrorism: The threat to international security; Africa: Altered states, ordinary miracles
Peacebuilding: Imperialism’s new disguise? Towards a sustainable peace and reconciliation in Côte d’Ivoire; Niger Delta militancy and the challenge of criminalising terrorism in Nigeria; People-to-people peacemaking and peacebuilding: A review of the work of the New Sudan Council of Churches; Ghana: Will oil resources strengthen democracy? Elections calendar 2009; The potential impact of HIV/AIDS on the South African armed forces: Some evidence from outside and within; Arms restraint and regional international law making: The case of the Economic Community of West African States; Enhancing counterterrorism cooperation in eastern Africa; The scramble for mineral resources in Cameroon: How can the government learn from previous conflicts and social responsibility failures? Human insecurity: The problem of poverty, unemployment and social exclusion; Book Reviews: Human rights in peril in Africa; Rebels and robbers: Violence in post-colonial Angola
Whither peacekeeping in Africa: Revisiting the evolving role of the United Nations; The use of force in UN peacekeeping: The experience of MONUC; AMIS in Darfur: Africa’s litmus test in peacekeeping and political mediation; Peacekeeping and peace enforcement in Africa: The potential contribution of a UN Emergency Peace Service; Dealing with the fast-changing environment in the eastern DRC; Demobilisation, disarmament and reintegration in the Democratic Republic of Congo: The numbers game; Developing indicators for evaluating the national implementation of regional law on arms in Africa; Lighting up the intelligence community: An agenda for intelligence reform in South Africa; SADCBRIG intervention in SADC member states: Reasons to doubt; African peacekeeping and the private sector; Book Reviews: Traditional justice and reconciliation after violent conflict: Learning from African experience; Understanding Somalia and Somaliland: Culture, history, society
2008
Abstracts, Zimbabwe’s 2008 elections and their implications for Africa; Chinese arms destined for Zimbabwe over South African territory: The R2P norm and the role of civil society; Elections and confl ict resolution: The West African experience; The implementation of the African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance; ‘God willing, I will be back’: Gauging the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s capacity to deter economic crimes in Liberia; Africa Watch: Angola’s legislative elections: Time to deliver on peace dividends; Stabilising the Eastern DRC; The conundrum of conditions for intervention under article 4(h) of the African Union Act; Terror in the backyard: Domestic terrorism in Africa and its impact on human rights; Nuclear Africa: Weapons, power and proliferation; Complementarity and Africa: The promises and problems of international criminal justice; Kenya: After the crisis, lessons abandoned; Women hold up half the sky: Peace and security lessons from Liberia; Spies for hire and information peddlers: A new threat to security in Africa? Vis pacem …? Book Review: Annual review of global peace operations 2008; Genocide: A comprehensive introduction
Abstracts, The climate security divide: Bridging human and national security in Africa; From the West to the rest:, Climate change as a challenge to human security in Africa; Climate change: A new threat to stability in West Africa? Evidence from Ghana and Burkina Faso, Oli Brown and Alec Crawford, Environmental change and human security in Lesotho: The role of the Lesotho Highlands Water Project in environmental degradation; Africa Watch, Personnel fatalities in United Nations missions, by year, up to 30 June 2008; Senegal’s democracy: Has Wade lost his edge? Developing national security strategies in the African context; Oil pipeline sabotage in Nigeria: Dimensions, actors and implications for national security; Understanding Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood; The impacts of environmental degradation on refugee–host relationships, Book Review: The ethics of climate change: Right and wrong in a warming world
Abstracts; Private military contracting in weak states: Permeation or transgression of the new public management of security? Carlos Ortiz; Local dynamics of security in Africa: The Central African Republic and private security, Marco Boggero; Challenges in understanding terrorism in Africa: A human security perspective, Anneli Botha; Enhancing counterterrorism cooperation in southern Africa, Eric Rosand and Jason Ipe; Security sector reform in the Democratic Republic of Congo: The status of military reform, Henri Boshoff; Côte d’Ivoire 2008 elections: Is there hope? D D Zounmenou; Trends and markers: Index of state weakness in Africa; The potential of nonviolence in building security in sub-Saharan Africa, Geoff Harris; Deconstructing local ownership of security sector reform: A review of the literature, Daniel Bendix and Ruth Stanley; Moving the Ugandan peace process from the dichotomy of criminal trials vs amnesty, Issaka K Souaré; Book Reviews Peasant revolution in Ethiopia: The Tigray People’s Liberation Front, 1975–1991, John Young; Untapped: The scramble for Africa’s oil, John J Ghazvinian
Africa in the world: United States relations with South Africa: Why now is a critical time to strengthen them, The United States Africa Command: Enhancing American Security or fostering African development? China’s ventures in Africa, Demilitarising militias in the Kivus, (eastern Democratic Republic of Congo), The African Union’s evolving role in peace operations: The African Union Mission in Burundi, the African Union Mission in Sudan and the African Union Mission in Somalia, South Africa: A future research agenda for post-conflict reconstruction, Considerations on the concept of a regional commercial satellite imagery interpretation centre in support of African peace operations, Only a Folie de Grandeur? Understanding French policy in Africa, Book Symposium: China in Africa, China’s domestic politics and its Africa policy
2007
Private military/security companies and human security in Africa; A study of peacekeeping, peace-enforcement and private military companies in Sierra Leon; Towards the revision of the 1977 Organisation of African Unity / African Union Convention on the Elimination of Mercenarism in Africa; Private security contractors and international humanitarian law – a skirmish for recognition in international armed conflicts; Western Sahara: What can we expect from the Manhasset talks? Darfur and the impact of protest fever; African leaders in order of periods in office; The United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur: Implications and prospects for success; A plan for military intervention in Darfur; Private military/security companies, human security, and state building in Africa; Filling the void: Contractors as peacemakers in Africa; Oh Big Brother, where art thou? On the Internet, of course … The use of intrusive methods of investigation by state intelligence services; Book: The security–development nexus: Expressions of sovereignty and securitization in Southern Africa;
Conflict prevention and the responsibility to protect in Africa, Whose responsibility to protect? Reflection on the dynamics of an ‘abandoned disorder’ in Somalia, The responsibility to protect, as enshrined in article 4 of the Constitutive Act of the African Union, A critical analysis of Africa’s experiments with hybrid missions and security collaboration , Africa Watch: Security alerts and their impacts on Africa, Trends and markers: Global Peace Index, Peace, security and the African Peer Review, Mechanism: Are the tools up to the task? The pitfalls of action and inaction: Civilian protection in MONUC’s peacekeeping operations, Pursuing sustainable peace through post-conflict peacebuilding: The case of Sierra Leone, Conflict prevention and early warning mechanisms in West Africa: A critical assessment of progress, Historical duty or pragmatic interest? Notes on EU and AU security issues, Greasing the wheels of reconciliation in the Great Lakes region, Book Review: From Africa to Afghanistan: With Richards and NATO to Kabul
Human security in Africa; Human security as inclusive security – gender, epistemology and equality; Human security and the state in Africa; African Union promotion of human security in Africa; Human security in Burundi: The view from below (by youth); Between the devil and the deep blue sea? Political reform in Egypt; Demobilisation, disarmament and reintegration in the Democratic Republic of Congo: A never-ending story; A force for good? The European Union and human security in the Democratic Republic of Congo; Landmines and conservation in Southern Africa: Peace parks in the aftermath of armed conflict; Poverty, pipeline vandalisation/explosion and human security: Integrating disaster management into poverty reduction in Nigeria; Africa’s maritime dimension: Unlocking and securing the potential of its seas – interventions and opportunities; The AU Standby Force and the challenge of Somalia; 2007: The return to the traditional security paradigm? Books: Migration in South and Southern Africa: Dynamics and determinants; Private actors and security governance
Challenges and prospects for peace in the Great Lakes Region of Africa,‘Shadow networks’ and confl ict resolution in the Great Lakes Region of Africa, Conflict circuit breakers in the Great Lakes Region of Africa, The ‘one-plus-four’ formula and transition in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Africa Watch, The mining sector in the Democratic Republic of Congo: Problems and prospects, Between justice and reconciliation: The survivors of Rwanda, The challenge and meaning of justice in northern Uganda, Whose justice? Contextualising Angola’s reintegration process, The role of women in the reconstruction and building of peace in Rwanda: Peace prospects for the Great Lakes Region, The Democratic Republic of Congo: Beyond the elections, Burundi: An ongoing search for durable peace, Books: No refuge: The crisis of refugee militarization in Africa, The state of Africa: A history of fifty years of independence
2006
Challenges for defence planners in Africa: Ensuring appropriate, adequate, accountable and affordable armed forces, A Pan-African army: The evolution of an idea and its eventual realisation in the African Standby Force, African military spending: Defence versus development? Parliamentary oversight of public expenditure management: A focus on the security services, Africa Watch, Zimbabwe: Confusion worse confounded, Nigeria and Cameroon: Diplomacy in the Delta, Military spending, socio-economic challenges and foreign policy demands: Appraising South Africa’s predicament, Defence transformation in South Africa: Sharing the experience with the Forces Armées de la République Démocratique du Congo, Civil–military relations in Africa: Navigating uncharted waters, How firm the handshake? South Africa’s use of quiet diplomacy in Zimbabwe from 1999 to 2006, What we know about HIV and AIDS in the armed forces in Southern Africa, Books: What’s wrong with terrorism? Private security in Kenya
African Perspectives on the International Terrorism Discourse, The T-word: Conceptualising Terrorism, Terrorism, Counter-terrorism and Norms in Africa , Assessing the Role of the African Union in Preventing and Combating Terrorism in Africa, Sudan: The Crisis of Cohesion? Côte d’Ivoire: Marking Time, Trends and Markers, Africa, Root Causes and the ‘War on Terror’, Counter-terrorism in the Horn of Africa: New Security Frontiers, Old Strategies, Terrorism in West Africa: Real, Emerging or Imagined Threats? Globalisation and International Terrorism, US Counter-terrorism Policies in Africa are Counter to Development, A Muslim by Any Other Name, Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism, Blood From Stones: The Secret Financial Network of Terror, Illicit: How Smugglers, Traffickers and Copycats are Hijacking the Global Economy, America Unbound – the Bush Revolution in Foreign Policy
Reducing firearm deaths and injuries, From fieldwork to facts to firearms control: Research and advocacy towards stricter firearm, Ccontrol Legislation in South Africa, Using public health information to inform, build support and implement policies for gun violence prevention: A case study from the gun ban referendum, Jumping the gun? Reflections on armed violence in Papua New Guinea, Finding the evidence: The links between weapon collection programmes, gun use and homicide rates in Cambodia, Somalia: Distorting reality? Slow military reform and the transition process in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mapping the use of guns in violence against women: Findings from three studies, Achieving positive reform of firearm control laws through information use: The Tasmanian case study, Contextualising the proliferation of small arms and light weapons in Nigeria’s Niger Delta: Local and global intersections, Big battles over small arms: But progress at the United Nations is too slow, The failure of the UN Review Conference and implications for global efforts to prevent small arms violence, The global gun epidemic: From Saturday night specials to AK-47s, Internationalizing and privatizing war and peace, The African AIDS epidemic: A history
Wars in the ‘borderlands’; The African Mission in Sudan: Darfur dilemmas; Justice empowered or justice hampered: The International Criminal Court in Darfur; The Somali Conflict: Root causes, obstacles and peace-building strategies; Africa in 2006: The humanitarian hangover? Zimbabwe’s Movement for Democratic Change: Do weak systems lead to weak parties? Benin: Under new management; Trends and markers; An analysis and comparison of armed groups in Somalia; Police accountability and policing oversight mechanisms in the Southern African Development Community; Canada as an international actor in Sudan; Anticipating a new and fragile democracy in Central Africa; Amateur soldiers, global wars: Insurgency and modern Conflict; The last 100 days of Abacha: Political drama in Nigeria under one of Africa’s most corrupt and brutal military dictatorships; Anti-money laundering law and practice: Lessons from Zambia
2005
Crime and Development; Organised Crime in West Africa, Asset Recovery, Repatriating Africa's looted billions; The Democratic Republic of the Congo, From fiction to fact? Burundi's DDR and the Consolidation of the Peace; Places that do not Exist; Trends & Markers; Rights versus Justice; NARC's Anti-corruption Drive in Kenya; Money in Southern African Politics; Combating Corruption in Malawi; South Africa's Anti-terror Law; Organised Crime and Corruption; Financial Intelligence Units; Debating Coloured Identity in the Western Cape; Book Reviews
Zimbabwe's March 2005 Elections; The Prisoners of Hope: Civil Society and the Opposition; The Land is the Economy; The Dynastic Succession in Togo; Sudan: All Quiet on the Eastern Front? The African Union Mission in Sudan; A Place to Call Home; The Gacaca Process; Trends & Markers; Zimbabwe's Zezuru Sum Game; Security Governance in South Africa; War and HIV Prevalence; Zimbabwe: Governance Through Military Operations; Zimbabwe: Beyond the Democratic Impasse; Aid, Gleneagles and the Run-up to the Millennium +5 Summit; Book Reviews
Keeping the Peace in Africa; AU's Critical Assignment in Darfur; Darfur Goes to the International Criminal Court; Africa's New Peace and Security Architecture; Côte d'Ivoire; In Transit?; Demobilisation and Reintegration (DD&R); Zimbabwe; Zimbabwe 2000 Parliamentary Election Results; Zimbabwe 2005 Parliamentary Election Results; UN Reform and Funding Peacekeeping in Africa; West Africa; Peacekeepers as Perpetrators of Abuse; Gender and Attitudes Toward Professional Ethics; Human-centred Environmental Security in Africa; The 3rd Pan-African Parliament Session; Peace Support Operations and Perpetual Human Failings, Book Reviews
Preventing the Spread of Biological Weapons; Civil Society and the Norm Against the Weaponisation of Disease; Evaluating the Threat of Biological Weapons in Eastern Africa; Banning Biological Weapons; Mozambique’s 2004 General Elections; Togo: Or Not to Go?; DRC Update; Southern Africa Assessment; Chronology of Events Relating to Africa and Biological Weapons; Understanding the Implications of UN Security Council Resolution 1540; Why Preventing Hostile Use of the Life Sciences is Relevant to Africa; SADC and Terrorism; The Importance of the BTWC for Africa and the Role of African States in Multilateral Disarmament Initiatives; Biological Weapons Control and Disease Surveillance; Confidence-Building Measures as Tools for Disarmament and Development; Book Reviews
2004
Who Guards The Guards? International Criminal Court; International Human Rights Protection in Situations of Conflict and Post-Conflict; Guinea-Bissau; Somalia; Overview of Security Reform Processes in the DRC; The Pan-African Parliament; Botswana Defence Force; Rethinking Conflict Trajectories; Consolidating Peace and Security in Africa; Prepare and Participate; Assessing the Stability Pack for the Great Lakes Region; Book Reviews
Armed Non-State Actors in Africa and the Ban on Anti-Personnel Landmines; Guns and Butter; Micro-Disarmament in West Africa; Peace in Sudan; Establishing a New Army for the DRC; The United Nations Mission in Burundi (ONUB); United Nations Security Council Reform; New Terrorism; Coups and Coup Attempts in Africa; The Africa Clearing House; Private Military Firms in Africa; Zimbabwe; Book Reviews
The Horn of Hope; Eastern Sudan Indigenous Conflict Prevention; Somalia and Somaliland; Debating Secession and the Recognition of New States in Africa; War, Peace and Diamonds in Angola ; Democratic Republic of the Congo; Burundi Beyond the Transition? Malawi General Election 2004; South Africa’s National Interest; Children Under International Criminal Law; African Stanby Force; Developmental Peacekeeping; Recent Developments in US Peacekeeping Policy and Assistance to Africa; The Arming of Rwanda, and the Genocide; Reviews
How have they Survived? Africa and China’s Strategic Partnership; Poor Performers In Sub-Saharan Africa; Appraising Regional Integration in Southern Africa; Nepad and Civil Society in South Africa; The Use of Regional Diamond Trading Platforms; South African Defence Since 1994; Implementation Challenges; Armando Guebuza; Food Aid; The Democratic Republic of Congo; Challenges Facing The AU’s Peace And Security Council; Revisiting the South African Defence Review; SADC and Human Security; Reviews
Defence Transformation: Planning and Measuring; Defence Sector Transformation; SADC:: Towards a Security Community? Delegates, Dialogue and Desperadoes; The AU Mission in Burundi; Swaziland; The ICC's Role in Africa; The African Standby Force; Peace Processes and Conflict Resolution in The Horn af Africa; The Multinational Force for the Congo; The Arms Deal Controversy; The New SANDF Rank Insignia; Book Reviews
Reporting Back, Looking Forward; A Demand-Side Approach to Fighting Small Arms Proliferation; Assessing Small Arms Control Initiatives in East Africa; Ready, Set, Trace; Amendment to the African Union’s Right to Intervene; Measuring UN Security Council Action and Inaction in the 1990s; Children and Youth in Sierra Leone’s Peace-Building Process; On the Origins of War in Africa; Rights, Root Causes and Recruitment; Re-Conceptualising Organised Crime; The Rise of Libya as a Regional Player; Book Reviews
Food Security and Humanitarian Emergencies in Southern Africa; Food Security in Sub-Saharan Africa; Moving Food; Disaster Risk Reduction in Southern Africa; Madagascar; ECOSOCC; Modern-Day Slavery? Initiatives Against Terrorism in Southern Africa; Corporate Responsibility and Humanitarian Action; Terrorism and Africa; Peacekeeping, Africa and the Emerging Global Security Architecture; Gender Awareness in Research and Policy Making; Book Reviews
2002
The Nepad African Peer Review Mechanism; The African Peer Review Mechanism; Peer Review as a Tool for Co-Operation and Change; Benchmarks and Indicators for Corporate Governance; African Regional Organisations’ Peace Operations; Peaceful Change and the Rise of Sudan’s Democracy Movement; Urban Fortresses; Democracy in the SADC Region; AU Plan on Terrorism; Making the Mechanism Work; The Universal Aspirations of the International Criminal Court; The South African Strategic Defence Procurement Package and Economic Growth; Book Reviews
Children in the Spotlight; Politics, War and Youth Culture in Sierra Leone; Under the Gun; The Right Intervention; The Post-9/11 Security Agenda and Peacekeeping in Africa; Corruption, Perception and Foreign Direct Investment; Democratisation and Militarisation in Rwanda; Reinventing Peace; Regional Food Security; Angola's Children; Book Reviews
Consolidating Democratic Civil–Military Relations; The Military, Civil Society and Democracy in Zambia; Integration or Absorption? Security Sector Planning in Africa; Organising the Blues; The Place of the African Commission in the New African Dispensation; The Irrationality of South Africa’s Military Expenditure; Protecting a Generation at War; Does Capital Punishment Deter? Book Reviews
Understanding Organised Crime; Towards Effective Control of Money Laundering; The Practical Valueof Legislation in Combating Organised Crime; The United Nations Security Council and the Organisation of African Unity; Human Stability and Conflict in the Horn of Africa; Crisis Response Capability; African Perspectives on Intervention and State Sovereignty; African Perspectives on Intervention and Internal War; A New Partnership for African Development? From Acronyms to Action; Book Reviews
2001
AIDS: Security Implications for Africa; Living in Terror; Playing God with HIV; Africa’s New Security Threat; The Structural Crisis of Guinea-Bissau’s Political System; Regional Traffick; Human Stability and Conflict in the Horn of Africa: Part One; Childhood on the Market; Civil Control of the Zambian Military Since Independence; The SADC Region; Osama Bin Laden; Book Reviews
Africa; Rethinking African States; Angolan Deadlock; Multiparty Democracy in Tanzania; The Democratic Republic of Congo; Beyond Declarations of Intent; Regulating Small Arms and Light Weapons; Blood Diamonds; Business and War; African Peacekeeping Beyond Brahimi; Still ... France Versus the Rest in Africa; Book Reviews
Africa; Regionalism into Globalism? War into Peace? Towards New Peacekeeping Partnerships in Africa? Ghana Election 2000; The Military in Lesotho; ‘Layered Response’ to an African Conflict; Border Control and Regionalism; Towards the African Union; Africa in the Age of Globalisation; Working Towards Sustainable Peace; The Catastrophic Situation of Mozambican Migrants; Book Reviews
A Focus on Small Arms; Arming the Revolutionary United Front; Arms Control Continuums; Mozambique; Africa's Triple Transition; Dar Es Salaam; Tanzania; The Lusaka Agreement; Consolidating Africa's Regions; Parliament and Defence Oversight; Book Reviews
2000
Terms of Endearment: Bilateral Donor Engagement in Fighting Corruption in South Africa; Forfeiting Rights? Assessing South Africa’s Asset Forfeiture Laws; Towards Justice in the Wake of Armed Conflicts? The Evolution of War Crimes Tribunals; Disarming and Demobilising Child Soldiers: The Underlying Challenges; Towards the New Millennium: ECOWAS’s Evolving Conflict Management System; Standing Down or Standing Out? Demobilising and Reintegrating Former Soldiers; The EU, Northern Uganda and the Prevention of Violent Conflict; The Southern African Development Community and the Landmine Ban Treaty; Rebuilding the Somali State; Book Reviews
Combating Arms-Trafficking: The Need for Integrated Approaches; Mainstreaming Gender in Peacekeeping Operations: Can Africa Learn from International Experience; An Illusion of Plenty? Resources and Development in Africa; South Africa’s Position in Africa’s Crime Rankings; The Three Economies of Africa; Nazdorovya? Russian-South African Defence and Technology Ties; The Ethiopia-Eritrea Conflict: A Fragile Peace; Book Review
A Strategic Approach to African Security: Challenges and Prospects; War to Peace: Dilemmas of Multilateral Intervention in Civil Wars; Angola’s Foreign Policy Since Independence: The Search for Domestic Security; South Africa as an Emerging Middle Power; The Political Economy of Development in South Africa; Zero Tolerance: The Hard Edge of Community Policing; Will Mozambique Remain a Success Story? Book Reviews
Small Arms - Big Challenge: Can Southern Africa Show the Way for the 2001 UN Conference? Physical Protection in Practice: International and Regional Peacekeeping in Africa; The Challenge of Change: Comparative Lessons from the Experiences of the EU and SADC; South Africa’s Arsenal of Terrorism Legislation; The Role of the Public Protector in Fighting Corruption; Protection of Foreign Missions in South Africa; Back to the Future: Renaissance and South African Domestic Policy; Book Reviews
The Commercialisation of Military Deployment in Africa; Dirty Harry is Back: Vigilantism in South Africa — The (Re)Emergence of the ‘Good’ and ‘Bad’ Community; The Peace Process in Kosovo: Structures, Processes and Thoughts on Peacekeeping in Africa; The Establishment of the International Criminal Court: SADC’s Participation in the Negotiations; Internal Security in Mozambique: Concerns Versus Policies; The Urbanisation of Conflict; Africa Watch Côte d’Ivoire: Asking for it; Book Reviews
1999
The International Criminal Court: Negotiations and Key Issues; Transforming Peace into Democracy: Democratic Structures In Mozambique; Heart of Darkness: Western Policy Non-Interventionism in Africa; Dissolving Boundaries: Private Security and Policing in South Africa; South African National Security Policy: An International Relations Perspective; Main Trends in the Development of South Africa’s Organised Crime; How Primary is the Primary Function? Configuring the SANDF for African Realities; The Politics of Intolerance; Book Review
Building Collaborative Security in Southern Africa; The South African Army Concept for Providing Combat-Ready Forces; Fighting Corruption in Developing Countries and Emerging Economies: The Role of the Private Sector; Conflicts in the Congo: From Kivu to Kabila; The Silent Right: Homosexuality and the Military; Defining Defence Requirements: Force Design Considerations for the South African National Defence Force; Fighting Crime with Private Muscle: The Private Sector and Crime Prevention; Africa Watch Chad: Fuelling the Flames? Book Reviews
Beyond Old Borders: Challenges to Franco-South African Security Relations; In The New Millennium; Regional African Peacekeeping Capacity: Mythical Construct or Essential Tool? Age and AIDS: South Africa’s Crime Time Bomb; Leaner and Meaner? The Future of Peacekeeping in Africa; Records of Weapons Collection and Destruction in Southern Africa: The Mozambican Experience; Understanding Election Clashes In Kenya, 1992 and 1997; Book Reviews
Managing Intelligence in an Age of Knowledge; Noble Cause Corruption in Policing; Gender Equality: A Challenge for the Department of Defence; Police Reform in South Africa: Peacebuilding sithout Peacekeepers; Equipment Considerations for Military Operations in a Third World Environment; Niger’s Walk to Democracy? Book Reviews
How Organised is the State's Response to Organised Crime? Enhancing Oversight in South Africa's Provinces: Institutions and Concerns; Mercenaries and the Privatisation of Security in Africa; Partnership Policing: A Role for the Private Security Industry to Assist the SAPS in Preventing Crime? The End of the Post-Colonial State System in Africa? Book Review
Comparing Crime in South Africa’s Major Cities: Results of Four City Victim Surveys; Peacebuilding in Africa: Prospects for Security and Democracy Beyond the State; New Security Challenges in the Indian Ocean: Instigators, Flows and Factors of Instability; Determining a Role for a Military Ombudsman in the South African National Defence Force; The South African Experience in Dealing with Communal Violence; Central Africa on the Boil; Book Reviews
1998
Social Equality Versus Combat Effectiveness: An Institutional Challenge for the Military; Peacebuilding: Six Dimensions and Two Concepts; The Restructuring of South Africa’s Defence Industry; SADC:From a System to a Community of Security? Reviewing Mozambique’s First Municipal Elections: A Brief Qualitative Study; A Large Peace of Africa? Book Reviews
Mine Warfare at Sea; ‘Peace Enforcement’: The Real peace Support Challenge in Africa; International Humanitarian Law and the Restoration and Maintenance of Peace; Ethnic Hegemony, Negotiations and Transitions to Democracy: Comparative Perspectives on South Africa and Israel; Developing Mechanisms of Civilian Oversight over the Armed Forces; Ethiopia and Eritrea: Fratricidal Conflict in the Horn; Book Reviews
Phaphama iAfrika!: The African Rennaisance and Corporate South Africa; Anomalies and Acquiescence: The Mozambican Peace Process Revisited; From Pariah to Partner — Bophuthatswana, the NPKF and the SANDF; Assessing the State of South African Prisons; Small Arms Proliferation in Southern Africa: The Potential for Regional Controle; Sierra Leone: RUF Diamonds?; Book Reviews
Reshaping Security: An Examination of the Governance of Security in South Africa; Peacekeeping in the New Millennium: Towards 'Fourth Generation' Peace Operations? South Africa, the IOR-ARC and Southern African Co-operation; Keeping Peace in the Neighbourhood and Abroad: Lessons for South Africa from the Russian Experience? The African Renaissance: Myth, Vital Lie or Mobilising Tool; Anjouan: A Spat in the Indian Ocean; Book Reviews
Inside and Outside the Boundaries of Police Corruption; The Security Costs of Party-Political Boundary Demarcations: The Case of South Africa; Reallocating Defence Expenditures for Development: The South African Experience; Crisis and Response in the Central African Republic: A New Trend in African Peacekeeping? Towards Water Security in Southern Africa; Zimbabwe: Mugabe's Choice; Book Reviews
Police Corruption: Towards a Working Definition; Explaining Government/ Police Relations in Post-military Lesotho: The February 1997 Police Mutiny; South Africa and Peace Support Operations: Limitations, Options and Challenges; A South African Perspective on the Place of Peace Support Operations within Broader Peace Missions; A State under Siege: The Internationalisation of the Sudanese Civil War; The Changing Nature of Warfare: Implications for Africa
1997
South African Public Attitudes on Participation in Peacekeeping, Personnel Issues and Labour Relations in the Military; "No Unions, We're the SANDF!" But What's the Alternative? The Indian Ocean Rim; The West, the Rest, and the Will to Project Power; Regionalism in Policing: From Lessons in Europe to Developments in Southern Africa; Urbanisation and Security in South Africa: The Continuation of History
Preventive Diplomacy and Peacekeeping: Keys for Success; Democratisation and Security in Africa; Challenges and Opportunities for the Enhancement of Regional Security; Control Mechanisms: Towards and African Drug Strategy; Public Attitudes regarding the Image and the Future of the South African; Military and Defence Industry; Identification of Threats to Contemporary Regional Security and Challenges to Governance; The Physical, Psychological and Welfare Needs of Former Non-statutory Force Veterans; Treading Firmly on the Layered Response Ladder: From Peace Enforcement to Conflict Termination Operations in Africa? Towards an Holistic Approach to Security Management at Regional Security Level
Public Attitudes Regarding Undocumented Migration and Policing/Crime; Ethnic Confrontation - Security Implications of Policies Towards Ethnic Minorities; Training Standards for United Nations Military Observers: The Foundation of Excellence; Community Safety and Security: Crime Prevention and Development at the Local L evel; Consolidation of Democracy in Africa: Inhibitors on Civil Society; Developing a Regional Register of Conventional Arms: An Option for Africa? Which Way Forward? African Experts Look for Solutions to the Landmines Problem
Public Attitudes Regarding Women in the Security Forces and Language Usage in the SANDF; United States - South Africa Relations; Alternatives to Traditional Development Policies: Acknowledging the Links between Security and Development; The Principles of Non-interference and the Future of Multinational Intervention in Africa; International Relations and Migration in Southern Africa; Crime, Violence and Punishment - Putting Victims on the Agenda; Child Soldiers and International Law; Staffing and Training the SA Army of the Future
Statement by Dr Salim Ahmed Salim, Secretary-General of the Organisation of African Unity; Demilitarising the Political Process in Africa: Some Basic Issues; Towards Sounder Investments in African Peacekeeping Capabilities; The Humanitarian Challenge: A Foreign Policy Perspective; Is All Military Information Necessarily Critical to National Security; Rationalisation in the SANDF: The Next Challenge; International Fraud Trends: South Africa at Risk; Sino-South African Relations: Coming Full Circle
A New Era - the Establishment of the Institute for Security Studies (ISS); South Africa and the International Campaign to Ban Anti-Personnel Landmines; A Concise Conceptual History of UN Peace Support Operations; The Illegal Trade in Endangered Species; Security and Forced Migration Concerns in South Africa; South Africa's Natural Resources - The Maritime Connection; The SANDF Transformation Process
1996
Myth of the Rainbow Nation: Prospects for the Consolidation of Democracy in South Africa; Into the Breech: Reversing the Proliferation of Firearms in South Africa; The Role of Demobilisation in the Peace and Development Process in Sub-Saharan Africa: Conditions for Success; Who is an Illegal Immigrant? Ethics and the Professions: Blowing the Whistle on Crime; The Defence Industry and the Role of the Defence Secretariat
The Link between Security and Development: The Problem of Light Weapons Proliferation in Southern Africa; The Role of Women in the South African National Defence Force (SANDF); Promoting Regional Integration in Southern Africa: An Analysis of Prospects and Problems from a South African Perspective; Defence Research and Development in South Africa - The Role of the CSIR; The Naked Face of UN Peacekeeping: Noble Crusade or National Self-interest? Militarisation and the Search for Security in Africa
Strategic Perspectives on Illegal Immigration into South Africa; Controlling the Proliferation of Weapons; A Victim-centric Approach to Crime Prevention; Peacebuilding in Post-conflict South Africa: The Need for a Comprehensive; Demobilisation and Remobilisation Programme; The ‘Expanding Torrent’: British Military Assistance to the Southern African Region
Expanding Crime Prevention - City Policing and the French Experience; Political Instability in Post-military Lesotho: The Crisis of the Basotho Nation-state? A Regional Peacekeeping Role for South Africa: Pressures, Problems and Prognosis; Democracy, Defence and the US Experience; National Defence: The Experience of the Zimbabwe Defence Force; Defence Industry Overview - Today and the Future
Idealist; Maritime Power in Peace and War - An Indian View; White-collar Crime in South Africa: A Comparative Perspective; South Africa’s Maritime Interests and Responsibilities; Policing and Security on the East Rand - Katorus Area;
Foundations for Regional Security: Preparing to keep the Peace in Southern Africa; The Development of the FADM in Mozambique: Internal and External Dynamics; The Defence Secretariat and the South African Army; Navies in War and Peace: Annual Policy Review; Civil Society and Violence - How to Manage in the Townships without the Army; A Maritime Vision for South Africa in the 21st Century
1995
Non-Government Organisations in Peacekeeping Operations; US Defence Interests in Sub-Saharan Africa; South Africa and a Ban on Anti-Personnel Landmines; Narco-Trafficking in Africa: Security, Social and Economic Implications; Public Opinion Regarding Part-Time Military Service and Threat Perceptionn; New Voluntary Part-Time System: Statement by the Minister of Defence, 16 November 1995; Preparing the Army for the Next Century; Integration, Demobilistaion and Rationalisation
Towards Safer Cities?: Political Transition and Changing Forms of Policing Control in South Africa; Military Unionism in South Africa: Legality and Potential for Development; The International Image of the Military Professional; Are we Spending too Much on Defence? The Evolving Security Architecture in Southern Africa; Public Opinion Regarding Demobilisation of Military Members, and Unionisation in the South African Security Forces; Exploring the New Challenges to Peace Operations
Towards a South African Conventional Arms Trade Policy; Civilian Participation in the Education and Development of Military Officers; Military Culture in South Africa; Instability in Lesotho: A Search for Alternatives; Public Opinion Regarding the South African Defence Industry, South African Participation in Peacekeeping, and Women in the Security Services; Normative Professional Standards and the Development of a Professional Military Ethic in the South African National Defence Force
The Prohibition of Blinding as a Method of Warfare; Morality and the Development of a Professional Military Ethic; From Innere Führung to Ubuntu; The US Navy and the New World Order; Creating a New Navy, Standards, Training and SAS Saldanha; Maritime Co-Operation in the Indian Ocean; Zimbabwe: Pax Africana; Demobilisation and Integration: The Zimbabwe National Defence Forces, 1980-1987
South Africa and Africa: Regional Integration and Security Co-Operation; Aligning the South African Defence Industry with Regional Integration and Security; Defensive Defence: An Article of Faith? Reflections on the Integration of the Military in South Africa; Officer Education:The Democratic Imperative; African Military Perspectives; Guidelines for South African Arms Export Policy; South Africa and the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty; Towards a South African Policy on Preventive Diplomacy and Peace Support Operations
The South African Army - Futures and Forecasts; Prospects for Peace and Stability in Africa; The Challenge of Downsizing Ground Forces; Integration, Rationalisation and Restructuring of the SA Army: Challenges and Prospects; The Future of Peacekeeping in Africa; Challenges Facing the SANDF: From Integration to Affirmative Action
1994: AFRICAN DEFENCE REVIEW
1993: SOUTHERN AFRICAN DEFENCE REVIEW
1992: SOUTHERN AFRICAN DEFENCE REVIEW
