SECURITY COMPLEX AND NEW WARS

Emmanuel Chiaka Okpata, Praxede C. Egeonu (PhD), Kingsley Ozumba Mbadiwe

Abstract


The end of cold war brought an upsurge in new, and it seems especially atrocious civil conflicts in the Balkans, the Caucasus and several places in Africa. Scholarly community and the mass media shifted much of their attention from great power rivalry to the new civil conflicts. This development came as a result of new wars. The debate that followed pointed out that new wars came to be identified as “new” in the nature of contemporary conflicts. However, findings are indicative of the fact that the nature of new wars has given currency to the issue of security complex. This paper shall examine the relationship between new wars and security complex; test the hypothesis of security complex; ventilate on its consequences and finally reconceptualize the issue of security complex to suit the current global security challenges typified by the new wars.


Keywords


Security, complex, challenges, new wars, reconceptualize.

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