Western Intervention and Informal Politics

ISBN-13: 9781032070094 / Miękka / 2023 / 200 str.

Troels Burchall Henningsen

Opis

This book examines the political and military dynamic between threatened local regimes and Western powers, and argues that the power of informal politics forces local regimes to simulate statebuilding.

Recenzje

'Where Henningsen’s analysis comes to the fore is really the four cases. Here he shows how a specific mix of formal and informal politics may lead to different outcomes of interventions and state building (Algeria does not have an international intervention in the same way as the other case studies), even when the aims of the reforms were similar. The analysis moves on to examine the impact of informal politics, but also the balance of civilian and military organisations within international interventions, as well as the impact of regional politics and power.'

Paul Jackson, International Peacekeeping, August 2023

Spis treści

1. The puzzle of non-cooperative, but existentially threatened regimes  2. Informal politics and regime strategy  3. Chad: turning friends into enemies and enemies into friends  4. Mali: counterinsurgency by clients and patron  5. Iraq: fighting the Islamic State with an unstable alliance  6. Algeria: security institutions fighting for their survival  7. Do politics, organizations, or persons derail reforms?  8. Betting on institutions or persons?

O autorze

Troels Burchall Henningsen is an Assistant Professor at the Institute for Strategy and War Studies at the Royal Danish Defence College.