<P> Conceptualising and understanding the National Security choices and challenges of African States is a difficult task . This is due to the fact that it is often not rooted in the understanding of their (mostly disrupted) state formation and their often imported process of state building . </P> <P> Although Post-Cold War conceptualizations of Security have broadened, the policies and practices of many African states still privilege national security as being synonymous with state security and even more narrowly - regime security . </P> <P> The problem with the above is that a number of African states have been unable to govern their security in meaningful ways . Often failing to be able to claim the monopoly of force in their territories . A hybridity of security' governance' or' providers' thus exists . States that have not been able to capture this reality in official National Security strategies and policies often find their claim over having the monopoly of force and thus being the Sovereign challenged . This often leads to the weakening of the state . Examples of such states are South Sudan and Somalia . </P> <P> To reflect on institutionalization of new bureaucratic infrastructures and governmental practices in the post-World War II period in the U.S., when a culture of semi-permanent military mobilization brought around the National Security Council, the CIA, the Department of Defense, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff, national - security researchers apply a notion of a national security state: </P>

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