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The New African Civil Military Relations
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Author :Rupiya, Martin Publisher :The African Public Policy & Research Institute ISBN 13 :0620615273 Total Pages :222 pages Book Rating :4.6/5 (26 download)
Book Synopsis The New African Civil-Military Relations by : Rupiya, Martin
Download or read book The New African Civil-Military Relations written by Rupiya, Martin and published by The African Public Policy & Research Institute. This book was released on 2015-11-03 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1973, Yashev Raval wrote The Power of Wisdom, correctly pointing out that collusion between East and West had kept not only the balance of terror but provided the glue that kept geographic spheres of influence stable. Africa was part of that arena for global rivalry. With the collapse of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in 1991, the stifling grip the superpowers had exercised throughout the world was fundamentally altered. The transformation of the international security system, coupled with political democratization, allowed the partial reorganisation of the security establishments on the African continent to embark upon the New African Civil Military Relations (ACMR). In the last decade and half, the implosion of African states exposed to forces of democratization has escalated, manifest in Algeria, Egypt, Mali, Madagascar, Somalia, South Sudan, Central African Republic and Lesotho. At the heart of the states’ implosion has been weak, fragile and partisan defence and security institutions – a phenomenon that requires urgent research intervention to guide the much-needed reforms. In 2014, the Russian Academy of Sciences hosted the bi-annual African Studies Conference, with the lead author accorded the responsibility of organizing a Session on ACMR. From amongst some of the exciting Abstracts presented, authors submitted these as full chapters for this book which captures International African Studies Perspectives, managed by the African Public Policy & Research Institute (APPRI). This process was further facilitated by one of the presenters and now co-editor, Maj Henrik Laugesen from the Royal Danish Defence College, who agreed to lead on the fundraising – succeeding in securing support from the Royal Danish Defence College. The result is this book.
Book Synopsis Guarding the Guardians by : Mathurin C. Houngnikpo
Download or read book Guarding the Guardians written by Mathurin C. Houngnikpo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The relationship between civil society and the armed forces is an essential part of any polity, democratic or otherwise, because a military force is after all a universal feature of social systems. Despite significant progress moving towards democracy among some African countries in the past decade, all too many African militaries have yet to accept core democratic principles regulating civilian authority over the military. This book explores the theory of civil-military relations and moves on to review the intrusion of the armed forces in African politics by looking first into the organization and role of the army in pre-colonial and colonial eras, before examining contemporary armies and their impact on society. Furthermore it revisits the various explanations of military takeovers in Africa and disentangles the notion of the military as the modernizing force. Whether as a revolutionary force, as a stabilizing force, or as a modernizing force, the military has often been perceived as the only organized and disciplined group with the necessary skills to uplift newly independent nations. The performance of Africa's military governments since independence, however, has soundly disproven this thesis. As such, this study conveys the necessity of new civil-military relations in Africa and calls not just for civilian control of the military but rather a democratic oversight of the security forces in Africa.
Book Synopsis Rethinking Civil-military Relations in Africa by : Christopher Day
Download or read book Rethinking Civil-military Relations in Africa written by Christopher Day and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Explores the nature and significance of recent changes in civil-military relations across Africa"--
Book Synopsis Armies and Democracy in the New Africa: Lessons from Nigeria and South Africa by :
Download or read book Armies and Democracy in the New Africa: Lessons from Nigeria and South Africa written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1996 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Reforming Civil-Military Relations in New Democracies by : Aurel Croissant
Download or read book Reforming Civil-Military Relations in New Democracies written by Aurel Croissant and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-03-20 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses the challenge of reforming defense and military policy-making in newly democratized nations. By tracing the development of civil-military relations in various new democracies from a comparative perspective, it links two bodies of scholarship that thus far have remained largely separate: the study of emerging (or failed) civilian control over armed forces on the one hand; and work on the roots and causes of military effectiveness to guarantee the protection and security of citizens on the other. The empirical and theoretical findings presented here will appeal to scholars of civil-military relations, democratization and security issues, as well as to defense policy-makers.
Book Synopsis Military Power and Politics in Black Africa by : Simon Baynham
Download or read book Military Power and Politics in Black Africa written by Simon Baynham and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1986, Military Power and Politics in Black Africa explores many themes that concerned military power and politics in sub-Saharan Africa at the time of publication. Adopting a thematic approach, the book considers the nature of both intervention and disengagement and looks at the relationship between civilian and military institutions. The final chapters put forward arguments for the importance of foreign intervention in the politics and civil-military relations of African states.
Book Synopsis Ourselves to Know by : Rocklyn Williams
Download or read book Ourselves to Know written by Rocklyn Williams and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Civil-military Relations in Africa by : Samuel Decalo
Download or read book Civil-military Relations in Africa written by Samuel Decalo and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Military and Politics in Africa by : George Klay Kieh
Download or read book The Military and Politics in Africa written by George Klay Kieh and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2004 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike other publications on the military and politics in Africa which focus on one or two aspects of the involvement of the military in African politics, this text provides a comprehensive evaluation of the various aspects of military intervention. Such a collection provides useful insights into the military's role in African politics from initial intervention to the performance of military regimes, as well as to disengagement, reengagement, consolidation and finally, the offering of ways to control the problem of intervention.
Book Synopsis Civil-military Relations in Sierra Leone by : Thomas S. Cox
Download or read book Civil-military Relations in Sierra Leone written by Thomas S. Cox and published by Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1976 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this carefully researched study Coy reexamines the notion of the military as an effective contributor to the process of political modernization in developing countries. Testing theories of civil-military relations against descriptions and analyses of events in Sierra Leone the author offers explanations that are original and that make this book a model micro-study.
Book Synopsis Rethinking Civil-military Relations in Africa by : Christopher Day
Download or read book Rethinking Civil-military Relations in Africa written by Christopher Day and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Explores the nature and significance of recent changes in civil-military relations across Africa"--
Book Synopsis No Farewell To Arms? by : Claude Welch
Download or read book No Farewell To Arms? written by Claude Welch and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-04-11 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In many contemporary nations, particularly in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, the armed forces play a major role in governing. Historical, economic, and sociological factors have contributed to the political prominence of the military in developing countries. Nevertheless, in the 1980s several states in Latin America restored civilian rule followi
Book Synopsis Armed Forces, Conflict, And Change In Africa by : Henry S. Bienen
Download or read book Armed Forces, Conflict, And Change In Africa written by Henry S. Bienen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-04 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nigeria has not evolved political formulas that explicitly allow religion or religious authorities to define legitimacy. There have, however, been struggles carried out in religious terms over constitutional mechanisms for adjudicating conflict. Religion also has been an element in the conflict between ethnic-language groups. Finally, religion provides a language, a set of values, and institutions through which groups struggle and over which groups contend, both within and between religious communities. It has been necessary for northern leaders to stress Islam in order to maintain northern unity. However, Islam itself has worked to intensify fissures opened up by social and economic change in Nigeria. Islam in Nigeria continues to be contentious in both domestic and foreign policy.
Book Synopsis State Security in South Africa by : James Michael Roherty
Download or read book State Security in South Africa written by James Michael Roherty and published by M.E. Sharpe. This book was released on 1992 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is a study of civil-military relations in the Republic of South Africa while Pieter Willem Botha was prime minister (1978-89). The author's controversial thesis is that Prime Minister Botha, recognizing that his country had reached the historical juncture when it needed to establish a new political order encompassing all of its diverse peoples, moved effectively to prepare the ground for fundamental constitutional change. What was needed above all were stabilization measures to assure the support of the white population for reform. Botha used the South African defence force as his primary instrument. By 1989, Professor Roherty maintains, a striking degree of stabilization had been achieved within the country and throughout South Africa, and the groundwork for epochal change had been prepared. The author makes use of exclusive interviews with South Africans from the political, military, intelligence, corporate, and academic worlds.
Book Synopsis Ambiguous Order by : Herbert M. Howe
Download or read book Ambiguous Order written by Herbert M. Howe and published by Lynne Rienner Publishers. This book was released on 2001 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines three options for increasing state security in Africa: regional military groupings, private security companies, and a continent-wide, professional peacekeeping force. Howe explores these alternatives within the larger context of why African militaries have proven incapable of handling new types of insurgency
Book Synopsis Reconsidering American Civil-Military Relations by : Lionel Beehner
Download or read book Reconsidering American Civil-Military Relations written by Lionel Beehner and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-02 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores contemporary civil-military relations in the United States. Much of the canonical literature on civil-military relations was either written during or references the Cold War, while other major research focuses on the post-Cold War era, or the first decade of the twenty-first century. A great deal has changed since then. This book considers the implications for civil-military relations of many of these changes. Specifically, it focuses on factors such as breakdowns in democratic and civil-military norms and conventions; intensifying partisanship and deepening political divisions in American society; as well as new technology and the evolving character of armed conflict. Chapters are organized around the principal actors in civil-military relations, and the book includes sections on the military, civilian leadership, and the public. It explores the roles and obligations of each. The book also examines how changes in contemporary armed conflict influence civil-military relations. Chapters in this section examine the cyber domain, grey zone operations, asymmetric warfare and emerging technology. The book thus brings the study of civil-military relations into the contemporary era, in which new geopolitical realities and the changing character of armed conflict combine with domestic political tensions to test, if not potentially redefine, those relations.
Book Synopsis Pretoria's Praetorians by : Philip H. Frankel
Download or read book Pretoria's Praetorians written by Philip H. Frankel and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-04-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1984 when this volume was first published, the balance of power in South Africa was rapidly changing as apartheid faced growing international pressure. New social formations and institutions previously on the political margins moved into the mainstream to influence the course of events in ways which complicated the workings of local politics and challenged prevailing theories about the future of South Africa's racial order. Within the white elite, the military, in alliance with business leaders and technocrats in the bureaucratic and executive arms of government, emerged from virtual political obscurity to play a major role in shaping contemporary apartheid society. This full-scale study of the South African military as a racially heterogenous agent of the white state examines the origins of this development, with its capacity to alter the delicate balance between evolution and revolution. Set firmly in a framework deriving from contemporary literature on civil-military relations, it analyses the ideological and practical mechanics of the 'total strategy' enunciated as a programme for counterrevolution by the military establishment and seeks to determine the consequences of militarisation for political and social relations in South African society.
