RECOMMENDED READINGS
- Adebajo, Adekeye. 2002. Liberia’s Civil War: Nigeria, ECOMOG, and Regional Security in West Africa. London: Lynn Rienner.
- Allouche, Jeremy, Matthew Sterling Benson, and Freida M’Cormack. 2016. “Beyond Borders: The End of the Mano River War(s)?” IDS Evidence Report No. 188. Addressing and Mitigating Violence. Brighton, UK: Institute of Development Studies.
- Amin, Samir. 1972. “Développement et Transformations Structurelles.” Tiers-Monde 13 (51):467–490. doi: 10.3406/tiers.1972.1866.
- Ansorg, Nadine. 2011. “How Does Militant Violence Diffuse in Regions? Regional Conflict Systems in International Relations and Peace and Conflict Studies.” International Journal of Conflict and Violence 5 (1):173–187.
- Clapham, Christopher. 2005. Africa and International System: The Politics of State Survival. 8th Printing. New York: Cambridge University Press.
- Duffield, Mark. 1999. “Globalization and War Economies: Promoting Order or the Return of History?” The Fletcher Forum of World Affairs 23 (2):21–36.
- Ellis, Stephen. 2007. “The Mask of Anarchy: The Destruction of Liberia and the Religious Dimension of an African Civil War.” In Revised and Updated. 2nd ed. New York: New York University Press.
- Fukuyama, Francis. 1992. The End of History and the Last Man. New York: Simon and Schuster.
- Gberie, Lansana. 2002. “War and Peace in Sierra Leone: Diamonds, Corruption and the Lebanese Connection.” Occasional Paper 6. Ottawa: Partnership Africa Canada.
- Gberie, Lansana. 2004. Diamonds without Maps: Liberia, the UN, Sanctions and the Kimberley Process, Occasional Paper 11. Ottawa: Partnership Africa Canada.
- Gerdes, Felix. 2013. Civil War and State Formation: The Political Economy of War and Peace in Liberia. Frankfurt, New York: Campus Verlag.
- Hazen, Jenifer. 2013. What Rebels Want: Resources and Supply Networks in Wartime. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
- Hoffman, Daniel. 2011. The War Machines: Young Men and Violence in Sierra Leone and Liberia. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
- Johnson-Sirleaf, Ellen. 1989. “The Liberian Economy on April 1980: Some Reflections.” Liberian Studies Journal 14 (2):1–22.
- Keen, David. 2005. Conflict & Collusion in Sierra Leone. New York: Palgrave.
- Kieh, G. K. Jr. 2012. “Neo-Colonialism: American Foreign Policy and the First Liberian Civil War.” Journal of Pan African Studies 5 (1):164–184.
- McGovern, Mike. 2008. “Liberia: The Risks of Rebuilding a Shadow State.” In Building States to Build Peace, edited by Charles T. Call, 335–361. Boulder: Lynne Reiner.
- Reno, William. 1995. Corruption and State Politics in Sierra Leone. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Reno, William. 1997. “War, Markets, and the Reconfiguration of West Africa’s Weak States.” Comparative Politics 29 (4) :493–510. doi: 10.2307/422016.
- Reno, William. 2015. “Predatory Rebellions and Governance: The National Patriotic Front of Liberia 1989–1992.” In Rebel Governance in Civil War, edited by Ana Arjona, Nelson Kasfir, and Zachariah Mampilly, 265–285. New York, N.Y: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/CBO9781316182468.013.
- Reno, William. 2018. “Conflict and War in Africa.” In Routledge Handbook of African Security, edited by James. J. Hentz, 21–32. London & New York: Routledge.
- Sawyer, Amos. 1992. The Emergence of Autocracy in Liberia. Tragedy and Challenge. San Francisco: Institute for Contemporary Studies Press.
- UN Report of the Panel of experts appointed pursuant to UN Security Council Resolution 1306. 2000. Paragraph 19 in Relation to Sierra Leone December 2000_ S/2000/1195. https://reliefweb.int/report/sierra-leone/report-panel-experts-appointed-pursuant-security-council-resolution-1306-2000
- Vinck, Patrick, Phuong N. Pham, and Tino Kretzer. 2011. Talking Peace: A Population-Based Survey on Attitudes about Security, Dispute Resolution, and Post-Conflict Reconstruction in Liberia. Berkeley: Human Rights Center, University of California.
- Waldman, Thomas. 2005. Conflict Dynamics in The Mano River Region and Cote d’Ivoire: A Contextual Analysis. Report. Oxfam GB.
- Wallerstein, Immanuel. 1973. “Class and Class-Conflict in Contemporary Africa.” Canadian Journal of African Studies/Revue Canadienne Des Études Africaines 7 (3):375–380. [Taylor & Francis online]. doi: 10.1080/00083968.1973.10803704.
- Waugh, Colin M. 2011. Charles Taylor and Liberia: Ambition and Atrocity in Africa’s Lone Star State. London: Zed Books.
- Welz, Martin. 2021. Africa since Decolonization: The History and Politics of a Diverse Continent. Cambridge, UK; New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.