This book critically examines the emerging architecture for regional security in Africa, with a focus on counter-terrorism and counter-insurgency in the Lake Chad Basin. The volume is divided into five parts, providing conceptual, transnational, regional, national and alternative perspectives on regional security. This edited volume offers authoritative insights into one of the most destabilising regional security nightmares in contemporary international history, the Boko Haram terrorist insurgency in the Lake Chad Basin of West and Central Africa. The book elucidates, from policy science perspectives, the ethnographic, socio-economic and political contexts of the insurgency, as well as the challenges besetting the manifold interventionist measures - national, regional and international - aimed at combating it. I strongly recommend this book to all policy scholars, practitioners and agencies interested in African security and counter-terrorism on a global scale.