Côte d’Ivoire
Mutineers’ paradise
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 18972668 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Richard Ehui (Webster University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 53 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 109-129 |
| Publication date | 2019-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0008-3968 • E-ISSN: 1923-3051 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00083968.2018.1531774 |
| OpenAlex | W2904414902 |
| Language | FR |
| References cited | 20 |
The West African country of Côte d’Ivoire, which had just emerged from a protracted, bloody intra-state conflict, was hailed in 2016 by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) as the fastest growing economy in Africa. Paradoxically, it has also earned the dubious characteristic of being a mutiny-prone country. For most of the past year, it experienced sporadic episodes of military uprisings. This paper seeks to uncover the underlying causal factors behind this phenomenon. First, building on Huntington’s conceptual framework of civil-military relations, it locates the source of the mutinies in the unprofessional nature of the Ivorian security forces. It also argues that these mutinies further stem from the ethno-politicization and the impunity that permeate these forces and calls into question the proclaimed success of the Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR) and Security Sector Reform (SSR) processes. In the process, it discounts the view that these mutinies may be grounded in a sense of injustice
Art · Art history · Cote d ivoire · Ethnology · Geography · Humanities · Paradise · African Studies and Ethnography · History
Le coup d’État de décembre 1999 ou la fin de l’ « exception militaire ivoirienne »
Politics in Francophone Africa
Civilian Control of the Military
Ambiguous Order
Civil—military relations in Africa
Soldiers in Revolt
The soldier and the state
The Social Origins of Ivoirian Exceptionalism
Côte d'Ivoire
One-Party Government in the Ivory Coast
Modalities of Civil-Military Stability in Africa
Objective African Military Control* A New Paradigm in Civil-Military Relations
The First Dance of Freedom
No Farewell to Arms? Military Disengagement from Politics in Africa and Latin America
Civil-Military Relations Reconsidered
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |