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West African Regional Security: Conflict Management, Integration and Collective Security

Following the recent trends in world politics, the need to think beyond the state has become inevitable. From the end of colonialism in West Africa to the advent of globalisation, the nations in that region have continued to face similar problems and have not made any significant and substantial economic or political progress. Nations of West Africa have continued to be entangled in the claws of civil wars, group conflict, coups and military insurrections, unstable polities, corrupt and authoritarian regimes, proliferation of guerilla and quasi terrorist factions who have threatened the stabil…