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The strong ‘weak state’ : French statebuilding and military rule in Mali

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Date
21/02/2022
Author
Gazeley, Joe
Keywords
Mali
Intervention
Statebuilding
Historical turn
France
SSR
JC Political theory
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Abstract
Drawing on newly collected empirical data, this article explores the complex long-term political relationship between the state and the military in Mali. It argues that post-2013 French intervention has lacked an understanding of the place of the military within state structures. This led to an approach to statebuilding premised on the false idea that Mali has historically been a weak state, with weakness defined in military terms. It challenges this understanding and provides a counterargument rooted in a historical approach. It highlights how the French focus on military strengthening post-2013 inadvertently created the conditions for the 2020 coup d’état.
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Gazeley , J 2022 , ' The strong ‘weak state’ : French statebuilding and military rule in Mali ' , Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding , vol. Latest Articles . https://doi.org/10.1080/17502977.2022.2030627
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Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/17502977.2022.2030627
ISSN
1750-2977
Type
Journal article
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Copyright © 2022 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/ licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/24932

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