Introduction / Adekeye Adebajo -- ECOWAS : a retrospective journey / Adebayo Adedeji -- The travails of integration / S.K.B. Asante -- The dilemmas of regionalization / Daniel C. Bach -- Governance and democratization / Amos Sawyer -- The fifth wave of pan-Africanism / Christopher Landsberg -- Civil-military relations / Jimmy D. Kandeh -- Rebel movements / Ibrahim Abdullah, Ismail Rashid -- The political economy of conflict / Eboe Hutchful, Kwesi Aning -- Small arms, light weapons / Comfort Ero, Angela Ndinga-Muvumba -- Children and armed conflict / 'Funmi Olonisakin -- Civil society / Yasmin Jusu-Sheriff -- Pax West Africana? : regional security mechanisms / Adekeye Adebajo -- The United Nations / James O.C. Jonah -- France, Britain, and the United States / Kaye Whiteman, Douglas Yates -- West Africa's post-Cold War security challenges / Ismail Rashid.