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Title: | Civilian Control of the Military in Black Africa |
Author: | Goldsworthy, David |
Year: | 1981 |
Periodical: | African Affairs: The Journal of the Royal African Society |
Volume: | 80 |
Issue: | 318 |
Period: | January |
Pages: | 49-74 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Subsaharan Africa |
Subjects: | democracy defence Military, Defense and Arms Politics and Government |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/721430 |
Abstract: | Merely to assume that coup-free states will in due course succumb to their militaries is no substitute for analysis of their achievement so far. How to explain the succes of those civilian regimes which have maintained control over the military in the face of what must be regarded (given a mass of evidence from Black Africa) as very heavy odds? And can anything be 'learned' from their success, not least forthose regimes which have lately sought to recivilianise? The author discusses these questions in the following sections: Civilian control of the military: basic theory - Conditions and techniques of civilian control (ascriptive manipulation; psychological manipulation or 'field control'; manipulation of mission; pay-offs; co-optation; political permeation;military checks and balances; use of a foreign patron; formal legal constraints) - Cases Observations (civilian institutions; civilmilitary relations; the external factor). Notes, tab. |