The military, ethnicity and democracy in Nigeria

Anugwom, Edlyne E.

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“…As French President Charles de Gaulle put it, the old French army was not "the French army but the army of France." 46 During the Revolution, the army became an extension of the nation and an embodiment of a national ideal, which, as Clausewitz identified, would be called a "game changer" today, as well as part of the secret of the success of the armies first of the revolution and later of the empire. 47 Clausewitz writes:…”

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“…58 Doyle, 1989, p. 184. progress of that idea: The nation called, and most local administrators and most young men complied. 59 )…”

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“…This tactic discouraged unit-centered identity and pride and encouraged the promotion of national identity and patriotism, which the government saw as good for the army and for the republic. 60 The government imposed on all regiments the same uniforms, the same flags, and the same pay.…”

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“…The French military historian JeanPaul Bertaud notes that the nascent republic took seriously the idea of 59 Annie Crépin, Vers l'armée nationale: Les débuts de la conscription en Seine-et-Marne, Rennes, France: PU Rennes, 2011. 60 Jean-Paul Bertaud, La révolution armée: Les soldats-citoyens et la Révolution française, Paris: Éditions Robert Laffont, 1979, pp.…”

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“…102-105. the army being a national melting pot. 61 France's military units tended to have disproportionate numbers of people from the local region, but none exclusively comprised a single group. French language was taught in all units.…”

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Building Armies, Building Nations: Toward a New Approach to Security Force Assistance

Shurkin¹,

Gordon²,

Frederick³

et al. 2017

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This document and trademark(s) contained herein are protected by law. This representation of RAND intellectual property is provided for noncommercial use only. Unauthorized posting of this publication online is prohibited. Permission is given to duplicate this document for personal use only, as long as it is unaltered and complete. Permission is required from RAND to reproduce, or reuse in another form, any of its research documents for commercial use. For information on reprint and linking permissions, please visit www.rand.org/pubs/permissions.The RAND Corporation is a research organization that develops solutions to public policy challenges to help make communities throughout the world safer and more secure, healthier and more prosperous. RAND is nonprofit, nonpartisan, and committed to the public interest.RAND's publications do not necessarily reflect the opinions of its research clients and sponsors.Support RAND Make a tax-deductible charitable contribution at www.rand.org/giving/contribute www.rand.org Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available for this publication.ISBN: 978-0-8330-9741-5 For more information on this publication, visit www.rand.org/t/RR1832Published by the RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, Calif. © Copyright 2017 RAND CorporationR® is a registered trademark.iii PrefaceThis report explores the relationship between armies and nation-building and argues that U.S.-sponsored Security Force Assistance (SFA) might be improved were there less focus on force structure, military capabilities, and readiness, and more on ideology and the extent to which an army complements a host nation's larger nation-building project. While SFA doctrine and comparable guidelines call for working toward enhancing government legitimacy, this report argues that legitimacy is often a function of ideas, identities, and ideologies. Armies historically have played an important role by embodying and promoting specific ideas, identities, and ideologies, and otherwise by bridging the people with the nation. This report uses six case studies-three historic cases of large-scale U.S. SFA programs (South Korea, Vietnam, and Iraq) and three cases of attempts by postcolonial states (Ghana, Mali, and Nigeria) to invent themselves, with the military sometimes playing an important role-for the purpose of examining relationships between armies and nation-building and the potential role of SFA.The purpose of this report is to identify ways to improve SFA provision. Recent events in Iraq as well as Mali have raised questions about the value of SFA and U.S. capacity to strengthen client states' militaries in the face of insurgencies or other significant threats. While stopping short of policy prescription, this report is intended to suggest possible improvements to SFA by arguing for a different approach as well as to stimulate further debate and research.This research was sponsored by the Deputy Chief of Staff G-8, Army Quadrennial Defense Review Office, and conducted within the SummarySecurity Force Assistance (S...

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“…58 Doyle, 1989, p. 184. progress of that idea: The nation called, and most local administrators and most young men complied. 59 )…”

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Chief Lamidi Adedibu and patronage politics in Nigeria

Omobowale

Olutayo

2007

J. Mod. Afr. Stud.

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Since the acceptance of multi-party democracy as the most viable alternative to autocracy and military rule in Africa, democratic rule has become the vogue. Nigeria's attempt at democracy was (and is) accompanied by patronage politics, whereby certain personalities exact great influence on the political process. This study spotlights Chief Lamidi Adedibu and his patronage style in Nigerian politics, and shows that Adedibu gained political ‘patronic’ prominence during Nigeria's Third Republic in the 1990s, through the provision of the survival needs of the poor majority who are, mostly, used as thugs for protection against challenges from opponents and for political leverage. Since then, he has remained a ‘valuable tool’ of ‘any government in power’ and politicians ready to provide the necessary goods for onward transmission to clients.

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Strangers, indigenes and settlers: Contested geographies of citizenship in Nigeria

Kraxberger

2005

Space and Polity

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The military, ethnicity and democracy in Nigeria

Abstract: The African e-Journals Project has digitized full text of articles of eleven social science and humanities journals. This item is from the digital archive maintained by Michigan State University Library.

Cited by 12 publications

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Building Armies, Building Nations: Toward a New Approach to Security Force Assistance

Building Armies, Building Nations: Toward a New Approach to Security Force Assistance

Chief Lamidi Adedibu and patronage politics in Nigeria

Strangers, indigenes and settlers: Contested geographies of citizenship in Nigeria

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