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Bibliography: Boko Haram PERSPECTIVES ON TERRORISM Volume 13, Issue 3 Bibliography: Boko Haram Compiled and selected by Judith Tinnes [Bibliographic Series of Perspectives on Terrorism – BSPT-JT-2019-5] Abstract This bibliography contains journal articles, book chapters, books, edited volumes, theses, grey literature, bibliog- raphies and other resources on the Nigerian terrorist group Boko Haram. While focusing on recent literature, the bibliography is not restricted to a particular time period and covers publications up to May 2019. The literature has been retrieved by manually browsing more than 200 core and periphery sources in the field of Terrorism Stud- ies. Additionally, full-text and reference retrieval systems have been employed to broaden the search. Keywords: bibliography, resources, literature, Boko Haram, Islamic State West Africa Province, ISWAP, Abu- bakar Shekau, Abu Musab al-Barnawi, Nigeria, Lake Chad region NB: All websites were last visited on 18.05.2019. - See also Note for the Reader at the end of this literature list. Bibliographies and other Resources Benkirane, Reda et al. (2015-): Radicalisation, violence et (in)sécurité au Sahel. URL: https://sahelradical.hy- potheses.org Bokostan (2013, February-): @BokoWatch. URL: https://twitter.com/BokoWatch Campbell, John (2019, March 1-): Nigeria Security Tracker. URL: https://www.cfr.org/nigeria/nigeria-securi- ty-tracker/p29483 Counter Extremism Project (CEP) (n.d.-): Boko Haram. (Report). URL: https://www.counterextremism.com/ threat/boko-haram Elden, Stuart (2014, June): Boko Haram – An Annotated Bibliography. Progressive Geographies. URL: https:// progressivegeographies.com/resources/boko-haram-an-annotated-bibliography Hoffendahl, Christine (2014, December): Auf der Suche nach einer Strategie gegen Boko Haram. [In search for a strategy against Boko Haram]. (Annotated Online Bibliography; GIGA dok-line AFRIKA). URL: https://www. giga-hamburg.de/de/system/files/iz_publications/dok-line_afrika_2014_3.pdf Marlatt, Greta E. (2015, March): Boko Haram: A Brief Bibliography of Open Source Information. (Dudley Knox Library Bibliography). URL: https://www.hsdl.org/?view&did=753034 NATO Multimedia Library (2013, March): Africa: Conflicts and Crises of the Last Five Years. (Thematic Bibli- ography No. 3/13). URL: http://www.natolibguides.info/ld.php?content_id=10701671 Price, Eric (2011, September): Selected Literature on Terrorism and Political Violence/Conflict in Africa since the Second World War. Perspectives on Terrorism, 5(3-4), 118-133. URL: https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/ binaries/content/assets/customsites/perspectives-on-terrorism/2011/issue-3-4/selected-literature-on-terror- ism-and-political-violence-conflict-in-africa-since-the-second-world-war--eric-price.pdf Solomon, Salem (Writer); Gumbo, Tatenda; Ferri, Steven (Designers & Producers) (2017, February): Boko Haram: Terror Unmasked. (VOA Report & Video Series). URL: https://projects.voanews.com/boko-haram-ter- ror-unmasked ISSN 2334-3745 134 June 2019 PERSPECTIVES ON TERRORISM Volume 13, Issue 3 Books and Edited Volumes Abegunrin, Olayiwola (2017): Nigeria, Africa, and the United States: Challenges of Governance, Development, and Security. (African Governance and Development). Lanham: Lexington Books. Abubakar, Ibrahim Abdul (2015): Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing: Law and Practice in Nigeria. (Malthouse Law Books). Lagos: Malthouse Press. Anugwom, Edlyne Eze (2019): The Boko Haram Insurgence in Nigeria: Perspectives from Within. (New Direc- tions in Islam). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan / Springer Nature. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96959-6 Bauer, Wolfgang (2016): Stolen Girls: Survivors of Boko Haram Tell their Story. (Eric Frederick Trump, Trans.). New York: The New Press. Campbell, John; Page, Matthew T. (2018): Nigeria: What Everyone Needs to Know®. New York: Oxford Univer- sity Press. Comolli, Virginia (2017): Boko Haram: Nigeria’s Islamist Insurgency. (Revised & updated ed.). London: Hurst. David, Ojochenemi J.; Asuelime, Lucky E.; Onapajo, Hakeem (2015): Boko Haram: The Socio-Economic Driv- ers. (Springer Briefs in Political Science). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan / Springer Nature. DOI: https://doi. org/10.1007/978-3-319-21230-2 De Coning, Cedric; Gelot, Linnéa; Karlsrud, John (Eds.) (2016): The Future of African Peace Operations: From the Janjaweed to Boko Haram. (Africa Now). London / Uppsala: Zed Books / Nordic Africa Institute. Faluyi, Olumuyiwa Temitope; Khan, Sultan; Akinola, Adeoye O. (2019): Boko Haram’s Terrorism and the Nige- rian State: Federalism, Politics and Policies. (Advances in African Economic, Social and Political Development). Cham: Springer International Publishing. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05737-4 Francis, David J. (Ed.) (2018): African Peace Militaries: War, Peace and Democratic Governance. (Routledge Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution). Abingdon: Routledge. Habila, Helon (2016): The Chibok Girls: The Boko Haram Kidnappings and Islamist Militancy in Nigeria. New York: Columbia Global Reports. Harmon, Stephen A. (2014): Terror and Insurgency in the Sahara-Sahel Region: Corruption, Contraband, Jihad and the Mali War of 2012-2013. (The International Political Economy of New Regionalisms Series). Abingdon: Routledge. (Original work published 2014) Hentz, James J.; Solomon, Hussein (Eds.) (2017): Understanding Boko Haram: Terrorism and Insurgency in Af- rica. (Contemporary Terrorism Studies). Abingdon: Routledge. Ibrahim, Patience; Hoffmann, Andrea C. (2017): A Gift from Darkness: How I Escaped with my Daughter from Boko Haram. (Shaun Whiteside, Trans.). London: Little, Brown. Iyi, John-Mark; Strydom, Hennie (Eds.) (2018): Boko Haram and International Law. Cham: Springer Interna- tional Publishing. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74957-0 Kassim, Abdulbasit; Nwankpa, Michael (Eds.) (2018): The Boko Haram Reader: From Nigerian Preachers to the Islamic State. New York: Oxford University Press. Kendhammer, Brandon; McCain, Carmen (2018): Boko Haram. (Ohio Short Histories of Africa). Athens: Ohio University Press. Kieh, George Klay; Kalu, Kelechi (Eds.) (2013): West Africa and the U.S. War on Terror. (Routledge Studies in US Foreign Policy). Abingdon: Routledge. LeVan, A. Carl (2019): Contemporary Nigerian Politics: Competition in a Time of Transition and Terror. Cam- ISSN 2334-3745 135 June 2019 PERSPECTIVES ON TERRORISM Volume 13, Issue 3 bridge: Cambridge University Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108560467 MacEachern, Scott (2018): Searching for Boko Haram: A History of Violence in Central Africa. New York: Ox- ford University Press. Mantzikos, Ioannis (Ed.) (2013, October): Boko Haram: Anatomy of a Crisis. (Edited Collection). Bristol: e-In- ternational Relations. URL: https://www.e-ir.info/wp-content/uploads/Boko-Haram-e-IR.pdf Maszka, John (2017): Al-Shabaab and Boko Haram: Guerrilla Insurgency or Strategic Terrorism? London: World Scientific. Matfess, Hilary (2017): Women and the War on Boko Haram: Wives, Weapons, Witnesses. (African Arguments). London: Zed Books. Obi, Cyril; Oriola, Temitope B. (Eds.) (2018): The Unfinished Revolution in Nigeria’s Niger Delta: Prospects for Environmental Justice and Peace. (Routledge Studies in Peace, Conflict and Security in Africa). Abingdon: Routledge. Olabode, Shola Abidemi (2018): Digital Activism and Cyberconflicts in Nigeria: Occupy Nigeria, Boko Haram and MEND. Bingley: Emerald. Omeni, Akali (2018): Counter-Insurgency in Nigeria: The Military and Operations against Boko Haram, 2011- 2017. (Studies in Insurgency, Counterinsurgency and National Security). London: Routledge. Pérouse de Montclos, Marc-Antoine (Ed.) (2014): Boko Haram: Islamism, Politics, Security, and the State in Ni- geria. (West African Politics and Society Series, Vol. 2). [e-Book]. Leiden / Zaria: African Studies Centre (ASC) / French Institute for Research in Africa (IFRA). URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1887/23853 Ridley, Nick (2014): Terrorism in East and West Africa: The Under-Focused Dimension. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4337/9781783470525 Smith, Mike (2015): Boko Haram: Inside Nigeria’s Unholy War. London: I.B. Tauris. Solomon, Hussein (2015): Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism in Africa: Fighting Insurgency from Al Shabaab, Ansar Dine and Boko Haram. (New Security Challenges). New York: Palgrave Macmillan / Springer Nature. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137489890 Taft, Patricia; Haken, Nate (2015): Violence in Nigeria: Patterns and Trends. (Terrorism, Security, and Compu- tation). Cham: Springer International. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14935-6 Thurston, Alexander (2016): Salafism in Nigeria: Islam, Preaching, and Politics. (The International African Li- brary, Vol. 52). Cambridge / London: Cambridge University Press / International African Institute. Thurston, Alexander (2018):Boko Haram: The History of an African Jihadist Movement. (Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics, 65). Princeton: Princeton University Press. Varin, Caroline (2016): Boko Haram and the War on Terror. (Praeger Security International). Santa Barbara: Praeger. Walker, Andrew (2016): “Eat the Heart of the Infidel”: The Harrowing of Nigeria and the Rise of Boko Haram. London: Hurst. Theses Ackah-Arthur, Jemima (2013): The Rhetoric in Human Security in the 21st Century: The Case of Boko Ha- ram in Nigeria. (Master’s Thesis, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada). URL: http://hdl.handle. net/2429/55126 ISSN 2334-3745 136 June 2019 PERSPECTIVES ON TERRORISM Volume 13, Issue 3 Babalola, Oluwatosin (2013): Combating
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