Reinventing the Military as a Political Actor: Alternative Discourses of Civil-Military Relations in Nigeria

After about 30 years of military rule (punctuated by brief periods of civilian rule) the Nigerian military handed over power to a civilian leadership in May 1999. Observers and Nigerians alike raised questions about the future. What did the future have in

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Series Editor: Xuewu Gu Center for Global Studies, University of Bonn, Germany

Managing Editor: Enrico Fels Center for Global Studies, University of Bonn, Germany

International Advisory Board: Luis Fernandes, Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil G. John Ikenberry, Princeton University, USA Canrong Jin, Renmin University of Beijing, China Srikanth Kondapalli, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India Dingli Shen, Fudan University, China Kazuhiko Togo, Kyoto Sanyo University, Japan Roberto Zoboli, Catholic University of Milan, Italy

Ample empirical evidence points to recent power shifts in multiple areas of international relations taking place between industrialized countries and emerging powers, and between states and non-state actors. Yet there is a dearth of theoretical interpretation and synthesis of these findings, and a growing need for coherent approaches to understand and measure the transformation. This edited series aims to bring together scholars from all major world regions as well as different disciplines in order to discuss and possibly blend their different approaches and provide new frameworks for the understanding of global affairs and the governance of global power shifts.

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J€ urgen R€ uland • Maria-Gabriela Manea • Hans Born Editors

The Politics of Military Reform Experiences from Indonesia and Nigeria

Editors J€ urgen R€uland University of Freiburg Department of Political Science Freiburg Germany

Maria-Gabriela Manea University of Freiburg Department of Political Science Freiburg Germany

Hans Born Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF) Geneva Switzerland

ISBN 978-3-642-29623-9 ISBN 978-3-642-29624-6 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-29624-6 Springer Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London Library of Congress Control Number: 2012947309 # Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. Exempted from this legal reservation are brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis or material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the Copyright Law of the Publisher’s location, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer. Permissions for use may be obtained through RightsLink at the Copyright Clearance Center. Violations are liable to prosecution under the respective Copyright Law. The use of general descriptive names, regi

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