Guarding the guardians civil-military relations and democratic governance in Africa
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,...
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Routledge
2016
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Conceptual and theoretical issues
- 2. Civil-military relations in Africa
- 3. Explaining army intrusion in African politics : an on-going debate
- 4. The African military and modernization
- 5. The performance of civilian and military regimes : a comparative assessment
- 6. Towards new civil-military relations in Africa
- 7. Legitimacy and democratic oversight of the security sector in Africa.