Table of contents
Section 1
Evolving Security and Actors: a Challenge faced by Parliaments
Chapter 1 – Changing Security in a changing World ....................................P. 33
Chapter 2 – Changing Security in West Africa .............................................P.39
Chapter 3 – The Resource-Conflict Linkage ................................................P. 51
Chapter 4 – Roles and Responsibilities of Parliament and the other State Institutions .............................................................................................................P. 61
Chapter 5 Parliamentary Ethnic .................................................................P. 71
Chapter 5 – The ECOWAS Parliament ........................................................P. 79
Section II
Challenges to Security
Chapter 7 – States of Exception .................................................................P. 91
Chapter 8 – Transborder Crime ................................................................P. 101
Chapter 9. Small Arms and Light Weapons Transfers ..................................P. 113
Chapter 10 – Maritime Piracy ...................................................................P. 127
Section III
Security Policy
Chapter 11 – Forging a National Security Policy
Chapter 12 – National Security Policy and International Regulations ..............P. 145
Section IV
The Main Operational Components of the Security Sector
Chapter 13 – The Military ........................................................................P. 155
Chapter 14 - The Police and the Gendarmie ...............................................P. 165
Chapter 15 - Secret and Intelligence Services ............................................P. 177
Chapter 16 - Private Military and Security Companies ..................................P 185
Chapter 17 - Regional and International Peacekeeping Forces ......................P. 195
Section V
Chapter 18 - Conditions for Effective Parliamentary Oversight ......................P. 211
Chapter 19 - Parliamentary Mechanisms applied to the Security Sector .........P. 219
Chapter 20 - Parliamentary Defence or Security Committees .......................P. 231
Chapter 21 – Security and the Power of the Purse ......................................P. 241
Chapter 22 – Arms and Defence Equipment Procurement ............................p. 257
Chapter 23 – Personnel Management in the Security Sector ........................P. 267
Chapter 24 – Gender and Parliamentary Oversight .....................................P. 285
Section VI
Chapter 25 – The Audit of Security-related National Budgetary Expenses ......P. 303
Chapter 26 – The Role of Civil Society and the Media .................................P.313