Armed Forces in Deeply Divided Societies: Lebanon, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Iraq and Burundi

Militaries in Power-Sharing Systems

• Author(s): Eduardo Wassim Aboultaif,
• Publisher: BRILL
• Pages: 228
• ISBN_10: 9004687084
  ISBN_13: 9789004687080
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Social Science / Sociology / General , Political Science / History & Theory , History / Wars & Conflicts / General , Political Science / General , History / Military / General , Technology & Engineering / Military Science , Political Science / Political Freedom ,

Description:... Eduardo Wassim Aboultaif critically analyzes civil–military relations and the way armies are constructed in divided societies. To achieve that, the book looks at four case studies with deep divisions and whose armed forces have been reconstructed after civil wars. Lebanon and Bosnia-Herzegovina represent two examples of consociational power-sharing arrangements with functioning armed forces that enjoy wide popular support and neutral in internal affairs. Iraq and Burundi, however, have semi-consociational provisions that have politicized the army and made it a partisan military that has either led to disintegration (as in the case of Iraq) or politicization and loss of legitimacy (as in Burundi).