| | | List of Tables | | |
| | | List of Abbreviations | | |
| 1 | | Humanitarian Intervention in Complex Political Emergencies: A Conceptual Framework for Analysis | | 9 |
| 2 | | Analysing Conflicts in West Africa: Causal Factors and Interpretations | | 33 |
| 3 | | From ECOWAS to ECOMOG: The Evolution of ECOWAS Security Regionalism | | 57 |
| 4 | | Duality of ECOMOG Intervention in Liberia: Alternating between Forcible and Non-Forcible Strategies | | 71 |
| 5 | | ECOMOG in Sierra Leone: Restoration of Democracy and Humanitarian Intervention | | 103 |
| 6 | | Peacekeeping without Nigeria: ECOWAS Intervention in Guinea Bissau and Cote dIvoire | | 137 |
| 7 | | Elusive Peace or Flawed Strategy: The LURD-MODEL Rebellion and Relapse into War in Liberia | | 151 |
| 8 | | Peacebuilding in Sierra Leone and Liberia: A Comparative Perspective | | 161 |
| 9 | | Institutionalising Conflict Resolution and Humanitarian Intervention in West Africa | | 179 |
| | | References | | 195 |
| | | Index | | 213 |
| | | List of Tables | | |
| 2.1 | | Basic indicators for West African states | | 35 |
| 4.2 | | Composition of ECOMOG, February 1993 | | 74 |
| 4.3 | | Composition of UNOMIL, January 1997 | | 90 |
| 5.1 | | Composition of UNOMSIL, September 1998 | | 125 |