State-building and National Militaries in Postcolonial West Africa: Decolonizing the Means of Coercion 1958

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Автор: Riina Turtio
Название: State-building and National Militaries in Postcolonial West Africa: Decolonizing the Means of Coercion 1958–1974
ISBN: 9781847013422
Издательство: Boydell & Brewer
Классификация:

Колониализм и империализм

Национально-освободительное движение и независимость, постколониализм

Холодная война

Военная история

ISBN-10: 1847013422
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 372
Вес: 0.56 кг.
Дата издания: 24.01.2023
Серия: Western africa series
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 1 maps
Размер: 156 x 235 x 23
Ключевые слова: Colonialism & imperialism,Military history,National liberation & independence, post-colonialism,Politics & government,The Cold War, HISTORY / Africa / West,HISTORY / Military / General,POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism
Подзаголовок: Decolonizing the means of coercion 1958вђ“1974
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: Explores the fundamental role of the military in state-building in francophone postcolonial West Africa and how foreign economic and military aid has influenced it.How did African armed forces in postcolonial states in francophone West Africa influence decolonization and state-building in African states? How did foreign assistance from ex-colonial powers, the USSR and the US and colonial state structures influence political systems, and sometimes result in weak and unstable governance? This book explores the development of national militaries in Cote dIvoire, Dahomey (now Benin), Guinea, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso) and Togo during the 1960s and 1970s. Revealing the strength of decision-making power by African political elites, the study also shows the decisive impact of foreign economic and military assistance on countries that did not experience a prolonged armed conflict. The author provides new insights into the way the decisions of African governments in building their national militaries impacted postcolonial states autonomy, legitimacy, sovereign control and governance.In West Africa, during the 1960s, France sought to maintain exclusive relations with its former colonies through military assistance, economic aid and close personal relations with African political and military elites. State coercive capacities extended far beyond the strength of political institutions, with soldiers assumption of political roles linked to the weaknesses of colonial and postcolonial structures. Disagreements between French and American officials, as well as Arab-Israeli and Sino-Russo conflicts, increased African presidents opportunities to mobilize external resources. Yet in the late 1980s, it became evident that national militaries and police were often the main causes of personal insecurity, rather than providing protection, and that some economies remained weak and political structures unstable.This book is available as an Open Access ebook under the Creative Commons license CC-BY-NC. The open access version of this publication was funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation.

State-building and National Militaries in Postcolonial West Africa: Decolonizing the Means of Coercion 1958–1974, Riina Turtio