THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN GOVERNANCE AND CIVIL CONFLICT: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF MALI AND CHAD
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Authors
Kolepke, Georg W.
Subjects
civil conflict
neopatrimonialism
extraversion
governments' political behavior
threat perception
instrumentalization of disorder
Mali
Chad
neopatrimonialism
extraversion
governments' political behavior
threat perception
instrumentalization of disorder
Mali
Chad
Advisors
Piombo, Jessica R.
Date of Issue
2020-09
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Sep-20
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Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School
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This comparative case study examines two countries with similar security challenges but different conflict-solving responses. It then analyzes the effects of neopatrimonialism, extraversion strategies, and the political instrumentalization of disorder on the governments' divergent responses to conflict. By comparing two Sub-Saharan African countries in the Sahel, Mali and Chad, this thesis concentrates on two countries that have been similarly affected by security challenges in terms of transnational extremism but have experienced different outcomes from their conflict-solving efforts. As a result, the analysis shows that different types of neopatrimonialism, extraversion strategies, and political instrumentalization of disorder affect a country's conflict-solving response. In the case of Mali, the country's government seems to allow disorder and conflict to persist in order to have continued access to resource revenues that guarantee state survival and prop up weak patron-client networks. The Chadian government, by contrast, seems to be interested in a balanced approach to conflict management that allows the government to maintain access to oil revenues, further strengthen its regional position, and suppress its domestic opponents without criticism from the international community.
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National Security Affairs (NSA)
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