Quasi-Armies and State-Building in Africa
Civil-military relations in the Global South are both important and understudied. In practice, this leads to international programmes repeatedly, erroneously assuming that the only way to restore stability, development and peace in post-conflict and post-crisis societies is to focus on state-buildin...
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| description | Civil-military relations in the Global South are both important and understudied. In practice, this leads to international programmes repeatedly, erroneously assuming that the only way to restore stability, development and peace in post-conflict and post-crisis societies is to focus on state-building without taking into account the respective political culture in place. The results in the Global South, and particularly in Africa, have been weak and fragile at best. In this open access book, through rich new case studies of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Cameroon, and Rwanda, Olaf Bachmann takes an important step in de-Westernizing civil-military relations theory. Focussing on one of the key pillars of the state—the army—and starting from the historically established axiom that there cannot be a state without an army and there cannot be an army without a state, Bachmann demonstrates how and why most African militaries never developed into professional armies. Instead, they have generally remained quasi-armies in the context of the quasi-states that established themselves after independence. Analyzing these events in the context of a wide array of Asian and African sources, Bachmann exposes the Anglo-Eurocentrism at the heart of Samuel Huntington’s hugely influential theory of the soldier and the state, and in so doing, he provides a powerful, more globally relevant re-examination of state-formation processes as they relate to the control of violence. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Bloomsbury Open Collections Library Collective. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1459692024-09-25T04:11:30Z Quasi-Armies and State-Building in Africa Bachmann, Olaf Cameroon Democratic Republic of Congo DRC Congo Rwanda state-building Samuel Huntington the soldier and the state civil-military relations African civil-military relations CMR African CMR CMR in Africa thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JW Warfare and defence::JWA Theory of warfare and military science thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTQ Colonialism and imperialism thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPR Regional, state and other local government Civil-military relations in the Global South are both important and understudied. In practice, this leads to international programmes repeatedly, erroneously assuming that the only way to restore stability, development and peace in post-conflict and post-crisis societies is to focus on state-building without taking into account the respective political culture in place. The results in the Global South, and particularly in Africa, have been weak and fragile at best. In this open access book, through rich new case studies of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Cameroon, and Rwanda, Olaf Bachmann takes an important step in de-Westernizing civil-military relations theory. Focussing on one of the key pillars of the state—the army—and starting from the historically established axiom that there cannot be a state without an army and there cannot be an army without a state, Bachmann demonstrates how and why most African militaries never developed into professional armies. Instead, they have generally remained quasi-armies in the context of the quasi-states that established themselves after independence. Analyzing these events in the context of a wide array of Asian and African sources, Bachmann exposes the Anglo-Eurocentrism at the heart of Samuel Huntington’s hugely influential theory of the soldier and the state, and in so doing, he provides a powerful, more globally relevant re-examination of state-formation processes as they relate to the control of violence. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Bloomsbury Open Collections Library Collective. 2024-09-25T04:11:29Z 2024-09-25T04:11:29Z 2024-09-24T08:44:10Z 2024 book ONIX_20240924_9781350413399_5 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/93582 9781350413399 9781350413405 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/145969 eng open access image/png Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/93582/1/9781350413399.epub Bloomsbury Academic Zed Books 10.5040/9781350413412 10.5040/9781350413412 f75587da-2374-4722-9d42-9fffa7fa3f92 9781350413399 9781350413405 Zed Books 240 London open access |
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| topic | Cameroon Democratic Republic of Congo DRC Congo Rwanda state-building Samuel Huntington the soldier and the state civil-military relations African civil-military relations CMR African CMR CMR in Africa thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JW Warfare and defence::JWA Theory of warfare and military science thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTQ Colonialism and imperialism thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPR Regional, state and other local government |
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