Introduction.The changing conception of African security / Charles Thomas -- Historical interventions, the local to the global -- The external military operations of southern Rhodesia and Zimbabwe (1895-2005) / Timothy Stapleton -- Afrikaner influence on the IRA and SOE / Aaron Linderman -- Fear and money : the strategic propaganda conflict during the Zimbabwean war for liberation / Blake Whitaker -- Historical interventions, the global to the local -- Sub-Saharan Africa, a key issue for France in the Cold War / Aurélien Poilbout -- A question of stability : the international response to Portuguese imperialism in the 1960s / R. Joseph Parrot -- Cuba and South Africa : regionalism and internationalism, ideology and conflict in southern Africa during the Cold War / Cranston Knight -- Current and ongoing crises in Africa -- Kidnapping : the terror of the 21st century? lessons from southeastern Nigeria / Joseph Eberechukwu Akonye -- A new tool for the toolbox : a historiographical essay on twenty years of environmental history and why it matters to soldiers / John Ringquist -- Kidnapping business and penalties for kidnapping as a part of Niger Delta conflict / Raimonda Iskauakaite -- Insecurity in the troubled seas : the US and Kenya face terrorism in eastern Africa / Hannington Ochwada -- The international dimension of current African security -- Africa and AFRICOM : United States security interests in Africa / Chris Agoha -- The legality of ECOWAS intervention in peace support in terms of the UN charter / Kevwe Omoragbon -- Securing peace in Burundi : external interventions to end the civil war, 1993-2006 / Josiah Marineau.