eBook
Available on Compatible NOOK devices, the free NOOK App and in My Digital Library.
Related collections and offers
Overview
Kenya plays a key role in the conflicts between the Western and Islamic worlds, making a grasp of its politics, international relations, military services, and security status an important study. Global Security Watch—Kenya provides a thorough introduction to the security issues facing the modern-day nation, offering policymakers, researchers, and general readers a window into this globally important, sub-Saharan country.
This expert analysis is the first to examine the strategic dimensions of Kenya and the political and military circumstances that have shaped the country. Following an overview of Kenya's history, geography, and politics, the book explores the development of the Kenya Armed Forces; Kenya's critical relations and security issues in Greater East Africa, particularly with Tanzania, Uganda, and Somalia; and the country's strategic relations with the United States. Drawing on objective historical and contemporary research, interviews with influential figures, and his own first-hand experiences, the author underscores Kenya's enduring strategic importance and offers recommendations on policy decisions.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9798216090571 |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Publication date: | 04/15/2010 |
| Series: | Global Security Watch |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| Pages: | 208 |
| File size: | 2 MB |
| Age Range: | 7 - 17 Years |
About the Author
Donovan C. Chau, PhD, is assistant professor of political science and a core faculty member in the master's program in national security studies at California State University, San Bernardino, San Bernardino, CA.
Table of Contents
PrefaceChapter 1: The Geography and Politics of Kenya
Chapter 2: The Kenya Armed Forces
Chapter 3: Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda
Chapter 4: Kenya and Somalia
Chapter 5: U.S.-Kenyan Strategic Relations
Chapter 6: Conclusion
Appendix A: Biographies
Appendix B: Chronology
Selected Bibliography
Index
What People are Saying About This
" Global Security Watch: Kenya is a simple but persuasive first-rate primer that fills the void of literature on a subject that for many years has been shrouded in secrecy. It is an engaging expose of a landscape few dared to tread on for fear of exasperating the securitocrats. While incisively analyzing Kenya's highly sensitive security issues without compromising scholarship and facts, Dr. Chau expertly and carefully wades through the hitherto forbidden national security terrain, and provides a reader with an infallible guide to Kenya's military history. This superbly written and path-breaking book about African state security is a must-read for policy makers, scholars, military historians, military strategists, security experts and any with an interest in African political history."
— Dr. Wafula Okumu, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Security Studies
Dr. J. Peter Pham Senior Fellow and Africa Project Director at the National Committee on American Foreig
"There is perhaps no area of the world for which American policy makers and analysts need to acquire a strategic perspective as much as Africa, whose significance for the political, economic, and security interests of the United States grows each day. In that context, Kenya, which plays an important role both in its East Africa region and in the broader geopolitical space that embraces Africa, the Greater Middle East, and the Western Indian Ocean, cannot be ignored. Donovan Chau's study, the first of its kind, is a welcome contribution to our understanding of a pivotal state and its role in America's twenty-first century security framework."
—
Dr. J. Peter Pham Senior Fellow and Africa Project Director at the National Committee on American Foreign Policy, Vice President of the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa (ASMEA)
"There is perhaps no area of the world for which American policy makers and analysts need to acquire a strategic perspective as much as Africa, whose significance for the political, economic, and security interests of the United States grows each day. In that context, Kenya, which plays an important role both in its East Africa region and in the broader geopolitical space that embraces Africa, the Greater Middle East, and the Western Indian Ocean, cannot be ignored. Donovan Chau's study, the first of its kind, is a welcome contribution to our understanding of a pivotal state and its role in America's twenty-first century security framework."
— Dr. J. Peter Pham Senior Fellow and Africa Project Director at the National Committee on American Foreign Policy, Vice President of the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa (ASMEA)
Dr. Wafula Okumu
"Global Security Watch: Kenya is a simple but persuasive first-rate primer that fills the void of literature on a subject that for many years has been shrouded in secrecy. It is an engaging expose of a landscape few dared to tread on for fear of exasperating the securitocrats. While incisively analyzing Kenya's highly sensitive security issues without compromising scholarship and facts, Dr. Chau expertly and carefully wades through the hitherto forbidden national security terrain, and provides a reader with an infallible guide to Kenya's military history. This superbly written and path-breaking book about African state security is a must-read for policy makers, scholars, military historians, military strategists, security experts and any with an interest in African political history."
—
Dr. Wafula Okumu, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Security Studies
Global Security Watch: Kenya is a simple but persuasive first-rate primer that fills the void of literature on a subject that for many years has been shrouded in secrecy. It is an engaging expose of a landscape few dared to tread on for fear of exasperating the securitocrats. While incisively analyzing Kenya's highly sensitive security issues without compromising scholarship and facts, Dr. Chau expertly and carefully wades through the hitherto forbidden national security terrain, and provides a reader with an infallible guide to Kenya's military history. This superbly written and path-breaking book about African state security is a must-read for policy makers, scholars, military historians, military strategists, security experts and any with an interest in African political history. (Dr. Wafula Okumu, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Security Studies)
There is perhaps no area of the world for which American policy makers and analysts need to acquire a strategic perspective as much as Africa, whose significance for the political, economic, and security interests of the United States grows each day. In that context, Kenya, which plays an important role both in its East Africa region and in the broader geopolitical space that embraces Africa, the Greater Middle East, and the Western Indian Ocean, cannot be ignored. Donovan Chau's study, the first of its kind, is a welcome contribution to our understanding of a pivotal state and its role in America's twenty-first century security framework. (Dr. J. Peter Pham
Senior Fellow and Africa Project Director at the National Committee on American Foreign Policy, Vice President of the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa (ASMEA))
"There is perhaps no area of the world for which American policy makers and analysts need to acquire a strategic perspective as much as Africa, whose significance for the political, economic, and security interests of the United States grows each day. In that context, Kenya, which plays an important role both in its East Africa region and in the broader geopolitical space that embraces Africa, the Greater Middle East, and the Western Indian Ocean, cannot be ignored. Donovan Chau's study, the first of its kind, is a welcome contribution to our understanding of a pivotal state and its role in America's twenty-first century security framework."
“There is perhaps no area of the world for which American policy makers and analysts need to acquire a strategic perspective as much as Africa, whose significance for the political, economic, and security interests of the United States grows each day. In that context, Kenya, which plays an important role both in its East Africa region and in the broader geopolitical space that embraces Africa, the Greater Middle East, and the Western Indian Ocean, cannot be ignored. Donovan Chau’s study, the first of its kind, is a welcome contribution to our understanding of a pivotal state and its role in America’s twenty-first century security framework.”