The Security Arena in Africa Book contents
- The Security Arena in Africa
- The Security Arena in Africa
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Boxes
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Ordering the Security Arena
- 2 National and Local Histories of Security
- 3 Creating Centres and Peripheries in the National Arena
- 4 Inner and Outer Circles of the Arena
- 5 Stable Ordering and Predictable Security
- 6 Fluid Ordering and Flexible Security
- 7 Mixing Ordering Forms
- 8 Embedding into and Detaching from the Arena
- Conclusion
- References
- Index
6 - Fluid Ordering and Flexible Security
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 January 2020
- The Security Arena in Africa
- The Security Arena in Africa
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Boxes
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Ordering the Security Arena
- 2 National and Local Histories of Security
- 3 Creating Centres and Peripheries in the National Arena
- 4 Inner and Outer Circles of the Arena
- 5 Stable Ordering and Predictable Security
- 6 Fluid Ordering and Flexible Security
- 7 Mixing Ordering Forms
- 8 Embedding into and Detaching from the Arena
- Conclusion
- References
- Index
Summary
Chapter 6 shows how actors turn to more fluid forms of ordering to adapt to movements and new issues in the security arena. Fluid ordering can compensate for minimal resources but can also reduce possible gains in the security arena. Non-state actors often attempt to mediate security issues as an alternative to absent state enforcement but often lack the influence to resolve conflict. State and international actors themselves recurrently choose to engage the arena through flexible conflict resolution. Fluid ordering that turns violent is particularly hard to grasp as perpetrators deliberately keep their actions and organization obscure. Ordering towards the fluid end of the spectrum can improve security by allowing for more modifiability but it also allows insecurity to arise as violence remains unchecked.
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- The Security Arena in AfricaLocal Order-Making in the Central African Republic, Somaliland, and South Sudan, pp. 163 - 187Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020