Security Cooperation and Pragmatic Peacebuilding: Reflections on the U.S.–Nigeria air strike, by Love Obiani Arugu This piece of article represents my personal scholarly reflection, intended to stimulate constructive debate among colleagues in the academic and policy space. The recent air strike carried out through cooperation between the Nigerian government and the United States is, in the context of Nigeria’s current security realities, a welcome intervention. The country is presently confronted not by a single insurgent group, but by multiple terrorist factions and splinter networks whose operations have overwhelmed internal security mechanisms...