Western Intervention and Informal Politics

This book examines the political and military dynamic between threatened local regimes and Western powers, and argues that the power of informal politics forces local regimes to simulate statebuilding.

Autorentext

Troels Burchall Henningsen is an Assistant Professor at the Institute for Strategy and War Studies at the Royal Danish Defence College.

Inhalt

1. The puzzle of non-cooperative, but existentially threatened regimes 2. Informal politics and regime strategy 3. Chad: turning friends into enemies and enemies into friends 4. Mali: counterinsurgency by clients and patron 5. Iraq: fighting the Islamic State with an unstable alliance 6. Algeria: security institutions fighting for their survival 7. Do politics, organizations, or persons derail reforms? 8. Betting on institutions or persons?