The new African civil-military relations / edited by Martin Rupiya, Gorden Moyo, Henrik Laugesen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rupiya, Martin, editor.

Laugesen, Henrik, editor.

Moyo, Gorden, editor.

Series:

International African studies' perspective.

International African Studies' Perspective

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civil-military relations--Africa.

Civil-military relations.

Africa--Politics and government.

Africa.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (223 p.)

Place of Publication:

Pretoria, [South Africa] : African Public Policy and Research Institute, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Preface / Prof. Phalandwa A. Mulaudzi

1. International African studies' perspectives : the new African civil-military relations phase in African states' development / Martin Rupiya, Gorden Moyo and Henrik Laugesen

2. The process of democratisation and the main military challenges to nation building in Libya / Elena Doroshenko

3. Civil-military relations in Benin : out of the barracks and back

now what? / Simon Akindes

4. Post-liberation relapse and aborted social contract? Isaias Afwerki and Eritrea, 1991-2015 / Kealeboga J. Maphunye

5. Democratisation in Kenya : the ambiguity of foreign military assistance / Henrik Laugesen

6. Challenges of relationships and social identities : the paradox of the consequences of Kenya's military intervention in Somalia / Irene Limo and Williams Muna

7. The role of the military in politics in Africa's 'phantom state' : the Central African Republic, 1960-2014 / Martin Rupiya

8. Civil military relations : perspectives in South Sudan / Sunday Angoma Okello

9. Civil-military relations dynamics and the prospects for a democratic developmental state in Zimbabwe / Gorden Moyo

10. Tracking Lesotho's sixth military coup, 30 August 2014 : what has changed? / Martin Rupiya and Mpho Mothoagae

11. Conclusions / Martin Rupiya.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed September 3, 2016).

ISBN:

9780620658386

062065838X

OCLC:

950196043