African border disorders: addressing transnational extremist organizations - 12

This volume explores the complex relationships that bind states, transnational rebels and extremist organisations, and borders on the African continent.

Combining cutting edge network science with geographical analysis, the first part highlights how the fluid alliances and conflicts between rebels, violent extremist organisations and states shape in large measure regional patterns of violence in Africa.

The second part examines the spread of Islamist violence around Lake Chad through the lens of the violent Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram, which has evolved from a nationally-oriented militia group, to an internationally networked organisation.

The third part explores how violent extremist organisations conceptualise state boundaries and territory and, reciprocally, how do the civil society and the state respond to the rise of transnational organisations.