Quasi-Armies and State-Building in Africa by Olaf Bachmann - 9781350413429

Quasi-Armies and State-Building in AfricaTowards a Global Understanding of Civil-Military Relations\nAuthor(s): Olaf Bachmann\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom\nImprint: Zed Books Ltd\nISBN-13: 9781350413429, 978-1350413429\nSynopsis\nCivil-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.\n\nIn 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 t.