The Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies (CTA) is completing work on a new book dedicated to the current security problems of equatorial and sub-equatorial Africa. The authors of the publication analyze the place and role of the African continent in the foreign policy of Russia and other leading non-regional actors (Great Britain, the EU, the USA, China and France), assess the economic potential of the states of Western, Eastern and Central Africa in terms of their needs for high-tech military, dual and civilian products. In addition, the book describes typical problems of African countries in the field of defense and security.
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To understand the general structure of the book, we give its summary:
Chapter 1. Russia and Africa: declared interests, implemented programs, promising areas of cooperation:
- Russia-Africa Summits: current and future agenda, problematic issues
- General characteristics of the African segment of Russia's military-technical cooperation with foreign states
- Russian high technologies of dual and civilian use for the African market
Chapter 2. Other non-regional actors and the African vector of their foreign policy
Chapter 3. African economies: the potential of the African market for high-tech military and dual-use products
Chapter 4.Regional problem blocks:
- East Africa: unresolved interstate borders, struggle for water resources and opposition to Islamic terrorism
- West Africa and the Central African Sahel: Countering Islamic terrorism and civil wars
- East African Inter-Lake Region: institutional weakness of States, cross-border ethno-religious conflicts
- Combating piracy in the Gulf of Guinea and Gulf of Aden
Chapter 5. African Union peacekeeping
