| Description |
1 online resource (71 pages) : color illustrations, color maps |
| Series |
ISS report, 1830-9747 ; No. 27 |
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ISS report ; tNo. 27. 1830-9747
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| Contents |
Forword. -- Introduction: history and origins. -- The business of war: capacities and conflicts. -- The business of politics: coups and people. -- Current and future challenges. -- Food for thought. -- Annexes |
| Summary |
Over the past few years, a significant and growing share of CSDP missions and operations has been devoted to training and capacity-building in fragile countries and regions in Africa, from the Horn to the Great Lakes, from the Sahel to the Gulf of Guinea. While this shift in focus and emphasis reflects the challenges that the EU and the wider international community are increasingly confronted with in Africa, it is a fact that the efforts put into such activities have produced very modest results so far. It is therefore legitimate to wonder what is going wrong, and why. African armies are very different from one another, and they are also very different from European (and more generally Western) armies. Their historical roots and traditions, the way they were shaped after independence, their domestic functions and operational roles tend to vary significantly (although they are not completely unrelated to past European experiences) and, above all, cannot be reduced to a single, normative 'developmental' model, hence the need to differentiate the approaches and calibrate the actions. This Report was planned and prepared with this in mind: to offer at the same time a bird's eye view and a qualitative analysis of what the African armies we deal with (and invest in) actually are, and what they are not; to explore what they can (and possibly should) do, and what they cannot; and to present both the regional expert and the layman, both the academic and the practitioner, with an accessible and hopefully stimulating read on a policy issue that matters a great deal for our common security in an increasingly complex, connected and contested world |
| Notes |
"April 2016." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 65-67) |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF cover page (ISS, viewed, april 192016) |
| Subject |
coup d'état.
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defence policy.
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military personnel.
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multinational force.
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professional army.
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regional security.
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war.
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Armed Forces.
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| SUBJECT |
Africa -- Armed Forces
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| Subject |
Africa.
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Africa.
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| Genre/Form |
report.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Gaub, Florence
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Institute for Security Studies (Paris, France), publisher.
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| ISBN |
9789291984831 |
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9291984833 |
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9789291984824 |
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9291984825 |
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