Boubacar N'Diaye
Biographic Data
| ID | 4534251 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Boubacar N'Diaye |
| GIVEN NAMES | Boubacar |
| FAMILY NAME | N'Diaye |
| SIGNATURE | DIAYE B N |
| AFFILIATIONS | The College of Wooster in Ohio |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Mauritania
Since its maiden coup in 1978, which initiated both an era of recurrent coup activity and a regime type dubbed “Mauritania of the Colonels,” the Mauritanian military, once an unassuming, apolitical institution, has been in power either directly or through a “civilianized” military regime. Since its creation in the early 1990s, the Battalion for Presidential Security (BASEP) has played a prominent role in the workings of Mauritania of the Colonels…
Mauritania's Colonels
Mauritania's Colonels
Africom and the Interests of Africans
To 'midwife' - and abort - a democracy
The 3 August 2005 military coup was Mauritania's best opportunity to turn the page on decades of the deposed quasi-military regime's destructive politics. This article critically analyses relevant aspects of the transition that ensued in the context of the prevailing models of military withdrawal from politics in Africa. It also examines the challenges that Mauritania's short-lived Third Republic faced. It argues that the transition process did n…
Democratizing security sector governance in West Africa
While other regions of Africa have had their share of crises, the challenge of meeting numerous security threats has been particularly arduous in West Africa. Nevertheless, there are unmistakable signs that, through its collective regional integration instrument, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), the sub-region is beginning to awaken fully to the need to tackle its security crisis. This article makes two interrelated argumen…
How Not to Institutionalize Civilian Control
Kenya is on the short list of African states that have not experienced military rule. In a continent known for rampant praetorianism, this means only that the coup prevention strategies implemented by its civilian rulers have been successful...so far. The unscrupulous ethnic manipulation, politicization, bribery into the military's 'circles of power,' and the set-up of a powerful paramilitary as a counterweight to the army have done little to ins…
To 'midwife' - and abort - a democracy
The 3 August 2005 military coup was Mauritania's best opportunity to turn the page on decades of the deposed quasi-military regime's destructive politics. This article critically analyses relevant aspects of the transition that ensued in the context of the prevailing models of military withdrawal from politics in Africa. It also examines the challenges that Mauritania's short-lived Third Republic faced. It argues that the transition process did n…
How Not to Institutionalize Civilian Control
Kenya is on the short list of African states that have not experienced military rule. In a continent known for rampant praetorianism, this means only that the coup prevention strategies implemented by its civilian rulers have been successful...so far. The unscrupulous ethnic manipulation, politicization, bribery into the military's 'circles of power,' and the set-up of a powerful paramilitary as a counterweight to the army have done little to ins…
Democratizing security sector governance in West Africa
While other regions of Africa have had their share of crises, the challenge of meeting numerous security threats has been particularly arduous in West Africa. Nevertheless, there are unmistakable signs that, through its collective regional integration instrument, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), the sub-region is beginning to awaken fully to the need to tackle its security crisis. This article makes two interrelated argumen…
Africom and the Interests of Africans
How Not to Institutionalize Civilian Control
Kenya is on the short list of African states that have not experienced military rule. In a continent known for rampant praetorianism, this means only that the coup prevention strategies implemented by its civilian rulers have been successful...so far. The unscrupulous ethnic manipulation, politicization, bribery into the military's 'circles of power,' and the set-up of a powerful paramilitary as a counterweight to the army have done little to ins…
Democratizing security sector governance in West Africa
While other regions of Africa have had their share of crises, the challenge of meeting numerous security threats has been particularly arduous in West Africa. Nevertheless, there are unmistakable signs that, through its collective regional integration instrument, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), the sub-region is beginning to awaken fully to the need to tackle its security crisis. This article makes two interrelated argumen…
Africom and the Interests of Africans
To 'midwife' - and abort - a democracy
The 3 August 2005 military coup was Mauritania's best opportunity to turn the page on decades of the deposed quasi-military regime's destructive politics. This article critically analyses relevant aspects of the transition that ensued in the context of the prevailing models of military withdrawal from politics in Africa. It also examines the challenges that Mauritania's short-lived Third Republic faced. It argues that the transition process did n…
Mauritania's Colonels
Mauritania's Colonels
Mauritania
Since its maiden coup in 1978, which initiated both an era of recurrent coup activity and a regime type dubbed “Mauritania of the Colonels,” the Mauritanian military, once an unassuming, apolitical institution, has been in power either directly or through a “civilianized” military regime. Since its creation in the early 1990s, the Battalion for Presidential Security (BASEP) has played a prominent role in the workings of Mauritania of the Colonels…
Political science (5 works) · Politics (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Global Peace and Security Dynamics (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Peacebuilding and International Security (3 works) · Political economy (3 works) · Africa (2 works) · African history and culture analysis (2 works) · African Studies and Geopolitics (2 works)