Beyond the state police in urban Uganda and Sierra Leone

Africa Spectrum

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 55-76

  Baker, Bruce ^a,b  

^a Faculty of Engineering and Computing   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Domestic security; Institution building; Internal sovereignty; Monopoly on the use of force; Policing; Security agencies; Sierra Leone; Uganda

Indexed keywords

EID: 35348981810     PISSN: 00020397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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