The New African Civil-Military Relations.

Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Preface -- Chapter 1 - International African Studies' Perspectives:T he new African civil-military relations phase in African states' development -- INTRODUCTION -- DEFINITIONS -- WHAT IS NEW? -- POST-1990S AFRICA AND ITS CMR DUAL CHALLENGES OF THE STABLE COUP AND THIRD TERM ASPIRANTS -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- Chapter 2 - The Process of Democratisation and the Main Military Challenges to Nation Building in Libya -- THE ARAB SPRING'S MANY FACES -- LIBYA UNDER THE REBEL'S RULE -- MAKING A FAILED STATE: SEPARATISM IN LIBYA -- Democracy, the 'might-have-been' Libya and NATO's involvement -- PERSPECTIVES AND OPINIONS -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 3 - Civil-Military Relations in Benin: Out of the barracks and back - now what? -- UNDERSTANDING THE ORIGINS OF THE MILITARY -- THE ARMY'S CREATION AND ROLE BEFORE INDEPENDENCE -- HIGH MILITARY VISIBILITY PERIOD (1960-1972) -- PRE-1972 MILITARY INTERVENTIONS AND THEIR SIGNIFICANCE -- MARXIST-LENINIST WANDERING (1972-1990) -- PUBLIC ATTITUDES TO THE ARMY (1972-1974) -- REORIENTATION OF CIVIL-MILITARY RELATIONS AFTER 1974 -- STRUCTURAL INNOVATIONS AND CONTINUITY -- ARMY POLITICS AND IDEOLOGY -- THE ARMY AND THE NATIONAL CONFERENCE -- RETURN TO THE BARRACKS (1990-2014) -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 4 - Post-Liberation Relapse and Aborted Social Contract? Isaias Afwerki and Eritrea (1991-2015) -- STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM -- BACKGROUND AND OVERVIEW -- APPROACH, METHODOLOGY AND ASSUMPTIONS -- THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK -- ISAIAS AFWERKI'S EPLF AND ERITREA'S POST-INDEPENDENCE POLITICS -- ERITREA'S POLITICS IN PERSPECTIVE -- IMPLICATIONS FOR PEACE-BUILDING AND CIVIL-MILITARY RELATIONS -- RECOMMENDATIONS FOR ERITREA'S DEMOCRATISATION -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES.

Chapter 5 - Democratisation in Kenya: The ambiguity of foreign military assistance -- THE KENYA CASE -- DEMOCRACY IN KENYA -- Freedom in the World, Freedom House -- Exclusiveness in Kenya -- Conclusion -- THE PROFESSIONAL MILITARY POSITION -- Professionalism -- Conclusion -- FOREIGN MILITARY ASSISTANCE IN KENYA -- FMA in Kenya -- FMA programme analysis -- Conclusion -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 6 - Challenges of Relationships and Social Identities: The paradox of the consequences of Kenya's military intervention in Somalia -- INTRODUCTION -- CONTEXTUALISING SOMALIA'S CRISIS AND KENYA'S MILITARY INTERVENTION -- IDEOLOGICAL TRAJECTORIES AND ITS STAMP IN REGIONAL SECURITY TERRAIN -- THE RISE OF AL SHABAAB TERRORISTS, INTERVENTIONS AND CONSEQUENCES -- CONTENTIONS OF SOMALI IDENTITY/RELATIONSHIPS AND REFUGEE STATUS IN KENYA -- POLITICAL GAINS AT THE EXPENSE OF SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC PROGRESS -- KDF: PROFESSIONALISM OR COLONIAL LEGACY BURDEN? -- SECURITY AND REGIONAL ALLIANCES CHALLENGES IN THE WAKE OF ASYMMETRICAL THREATS -- CMR IN CONFLICT SITUATIONS -- CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 7 - The Role of the Military in Politics in Africa's 'Phantom State': The Central African Republic, 1960-2014 -- CAR'S POLITICAL, SOCIO-ECONOMIC AND SECURITY DYNAMICS IN PRE- AND POST-INDEPENDENCE ERAS -- THE FIRST COUP D'ÉTAT: ITS PROPONENTS, EVOLUTION AND IMPACT (1966-1979) -- THE ERA OF KOLINGBA AND MANTION (1981-1993) -- MULTIPARTY DEMOCRACY AND CAR: THE ERA OF PATASSÉ AND FRENCH 'WITHDRAWAL' -- MILITARY COUP D'ÉTAT WITHOUT FRENCH ASSISTANCE: FRANÇOIS BOZIZÉ (2003-2013) -- THE PHANTOM STATE - FROM ZARAGUINAS4 TO SÉLÉKA REBELS: MICHEL DJOTODIA (2013-2014) -- ANALYSIS -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 8 - Civil-Military Relations: Perspectives in South Sudan -- BACKGROUND AND CONTEXT -- METHODOLOGICAL ORIENTATION.

THEORETICAL UNDERPINNINGS -- CMR AFTER THE MID-DECEMBER 2013 CONFLICT -- CMR BASED ON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT -- CMR BASED ON SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT -- CMR BASED ON IGAD-LED MEDIATION PEACE TALKS -- IMPLICATIONS OF CMR IN SOUTH SUDAN -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 9 - Civil-Military Relations Dynamics and the Prospects for a Democratic Developmental State in Zimbabwe -- INTRODUCTION -- CONCEPTUALISING CMR -- HISTORICISING CMR IN ZIMBABWE -- CONTEXTUALISING A DDS CONSTRUCTION -- MILITARISATION OF THE POLITICAL ECONOMY -- RELATING THE MILITARY TO THE MARXIST-LENINIST PARTY -- PROFESSIONALISING CMR -- Political leadership -- Bureaucratic elite -- Legislature -- Civil society -- CONCLUDING REMARKS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 10 - Tracking Lesotho's Sixth Military Coup, 30 August 2014: What has changed? -- INTRODUCTION -- ARRANGEMENT AND ARGUMENT -- BACKGROUND TO THE COUP -- THE AFTERMATH: POST 28 FEBRUARY CONSOLIDATION OF PUTSCHISTS AND IMPLICATIONS -- CONCLUSIONS -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 11 - Conclusions -- WHAT IS NEW IN AFRICA'S CMR PARADIGM? -- Back cover.

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