Guarding the Guardians
Guarding the Guardians

Author: Mathurin C. Houngnikpo

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 9781409404149

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This book reviews the intrusion of the armed forces in African politics by examining contemporary armies and their impact on society. It revisits the various explanations of military takeovers in Africa and disentangles the notion of the military as a progressive force. The study argues the necessity of new civil-military relations in Africa, calling for a democratic oversight of the security forces.

Reforming Civil-Military Relations in New Democracies
Reforming Civil-Military Relations in New Democracies

Author: Aurel Croissant

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-03-20

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 3319531891

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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.

The Military and Domestic Politics
The Military and Domestic Politics

Author: Rebecca L. Schiff

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2008-08-13

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 1135978050

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The intervention of the military in national politics and the everyday lives of citizens is a key question in civil-military relations. This book explains how concordance theory can provide a model for predicting such domestic intervention.Models dealing with the relationship between the military and society are usually based on Western nations wit

Guns & Roses: Comparative Civil-Military Relations in the Changing Security Environment
Guns & Roses: Comparative Civil-Military Relations in the Changing Security Environment

Author: Steven Ratuva

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2019-01-04

Total Pages: 443

ISBN-13: 981132008X

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This edited volume provides a critical and comparative discussion of the changing synergy between the military and society in the dramatically transforming global security climate, drawing on examples from the Asian, Pacific, African, Middle Eastern, European and South American regions. The book is interdisciplinary and covers wide-ranging issues relating to civil military relations, democratization, regional security, ethnicity, peace-building and peace keeping, civilian oversight, internal repression, gender, regime change and civil society.

Mauritania's Colonels
Mauritania's Colonels

Author: Boubacar N'Diaye

Publisher:

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781138059481

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"Mauritania's Colonels examines the personalities and policy of five military officers turned heads of state who ruled Mauritania for nearly 40 years." -- from preface.

Ambiguous Order
Ambiguous Order

Author: Herbert M. Howe

Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 9781588263155

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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

African Military History and Politics
African Military History and Politics

Author: Y. Alex-Assensoh

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2002-01-11

Total Pages: 237

ISBN-13: 0312292724

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Africa's former colonial masters, including Great Britain; France, Portugal and Spain, trained members and leaders of the various colonial Armed Forces to be politically non-partisan. Yet, the modern-day Armed Forces on the continent, made up of the Army, Police, Air Force and Navy, have become so politicized that many countries in Africa are today ruled or have already been ruled by military dictators through coups d'etat, occasionally for good reasons as the book points out. This book traces the historical-cum-political evolution of these events, and what bodes for Africa, where the unending military incursions into partisan politics are concerned.