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Security Sector Reforms in Post-Authoritarian African States: preliminary conclusions from the Nigerian and Tunisian c...
ISSN: 2178 - 8839
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Security Sector Reforms in Post-Authoritarian African States: preliminary conclusions from the Nigerian and Tunisian c...
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ICC-0202
Publisher: Conjuntura Austral: Journal Of The Global South Internatio..
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Abstract
The main goal of this paper is to analyze two SSR attempts in African countries that underwent political transitions from authoritarian political regimes: Nigeria, where the reform efforts began in 1999, after the election of Olusegun Obasanjo, and Tunisia, after the demonstrations that resulted in the fall of Zine Ben Ali in 2011. The efforts of this article will focus on two fronts. The SSR processes will be analyzed in what refers to (i) the contexts immediately preceding the proposition of the reforms, seeking to identify the main political actors involved; (ii) the proposed policies reforms; (iii) the observable results; (iv) the external actors (donors) involved. Concurrently, the security context during the proposition and implementation of the reforms should be analyzed. The paper's hypothesis is that in these two countries, where the security forces played and still play a fundamental political role, levels of resistance to S...
